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		<title>October 2-3, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 32nd letter to the Mercury and Stephens&#8217;s ninth letter to the Weekly Anglo-African, which he addressed directly to one of the two brothers publishing and editing the newspaper:
Mercury, October 15, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Oct. 3, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”All quiet here, so far as war news is concerned. Â We hear of nothing to cause any great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 15, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his wife Annie; it will turn out to be his last to her:
James&#8217; Island, S.C. [BCF]
July 15,1863
My Dearest Annie,
Your letters of June 3d, 14th, and 28th, and July 3d, 4th, and 5th, came to-day, and I felt horridly ashamed of myself for having blamed you for not taking care to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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A letter from Shaw to his friend and former fellow office from the 2nd Massachusetts, Charles Fessneden Morse.  On this day, Morse was fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg with the 2nd Massachusetts.  He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on the day following. Today was the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

St. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
St. Helena&#8217;s Island, S.C.[BCF]
June 28 1863
Dearest Mother,
Your note of the 20th came to me on board the &#8220;Benj. DeFord&#8221; just after I had sent my last ashoreâ€”also letters from Father of the 10, 13, 15, 18, 19 Inst. &#38; others from Annie, Effie &#38; Harry. Some of Annie&#8217;s have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 26, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephens&#8217;s fourth letter to the Weekly Anglo-African, and a letter from Shaw to his wife Annie:
June 1863. [VT]
Mr. Editor:
â€”Our regiment has been on the move ever since our arrival at Beaufort. Our active and brave leader, Col. Montgomery, gives none under his command time to rot, sicken and die in camp. No sooner does he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 18th letter to the Mercury and a letter from Shaw to his father:
Mercury, July 8, 1863 [OAF]
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga., June 22
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last letter, there has been nothing important occurred in this department that I am aware of. In fact if anything important were to happen, in which our regiment was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his brother-in-law Charles Russell Lowell, Jr (married to Shaw&#8217;s sister Effie) who was a colonel in the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry and was killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek in October, 1864:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga. [BCF]
June 20,1863
My dear Charley,
I received your kind letter before I left Readvilleâ€”and beg you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 19, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-06-19] OUR PORT ROYAL CORRESPONDENCE.; A Raid by a Negro Regiment Immense Destruction of Property The Freedman&#8217;sInquiry Commission &#8230;
 [1863-06-19] Negro Troops in Pennsylvania.; AN ORDER FROM GOV. CURTIN.
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		<title>June 14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 17th letter to the Mercury
Mercury, June 30, 1863 [OAF]
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga., June 14, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”As intimated in my last letter, we left Beaufort last Monday morning. We did not know where we were going, and never found out until we dropped anchor off this Island on the morning of the 9th. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island [BCF]
June 13 1863
Dearest Mother,
Last evening I received your two letters of the 31st May, &#38;Â 1st Juneâ€”one from Annie, two from Father &#38; one from Effie. This is the first news I have had since I left home. I hope you have received all mine. This should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 10, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the burning of Darien ([BBR]):
After a rather rough voyage of some eighty miles during the night, the &#8221; De Molay &#8221; dropped anchor at 6 A. M. [on the 9th] in the sound off the southern point of St. Simon&#8217;s Island.Â  Colonel Shaw landed and rode across the island to report to Colonel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his wife Annie:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga. [BCF]
Tuesday, June 9,1863
My Dearest Annie,
We arrived at the southern point of this island at six this morning. I went ashore to report to Colonel Montgomery, and was ordered to proceed with my regiment to a place called &#8220;Pike&#8217;s Bluff,&#8221; on the inner coast of [...]]]></description>
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