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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; emancipation</title>
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		<title>November 3-6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-11-03] BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER.; Heavy Firing Opened Last Wednesday. Twelve Hundred and Fifteen Shots Fired During the First 24 Hours. THREE OF THE MONITORS ENGAGED REPORTS FROM THE REBELS
 [1863-11-04] FROM CHARLESTON HARBOR.; The Second Bombardment of Fort Sumter. CONFIRMATION OF THE REBEL REPORTS. The Speedy Destruction of the Work Considered [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[burning of Darien]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Col James Montgomery]]></category>
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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 25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Steamer, off Hilton Head [BCF]
June 25,1863
Dear Mother,
I wrote Father yesterday that we were to return here. We sailed this morning at six, having been up all night loading the ship. I don&#8217;t know where we are to be sent now; it is supposed that Gillmore is going to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 16, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-06-16] Emancipation in Missouri.
 [1863-06-16] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; &#8230;COMMISSIONS IN NEGRO REGIMENTS &#8230;
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		<title>May 26-27, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 08:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[conscription]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-05-26] The Emancipation League of Boston.
 [1863-05-27] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. THE COMING DRAFT. REGULATIONS FOR NEGRO ENLISTMENTS. OFFICERS FOR NEGRO REGIMENTS&#8230;
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		<title>April 26-28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty-nine men joined the regiment on these three days.
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-04-26] The Negro Regiments on the Mississippi.
 [1863-04-26] THE FIGHT IN CHARLESTON HARBOR.; A DETAILED ACCOUNT.
 [1863-04-26] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON; QUIET WITH THE ARMY. A COLORED REGIMENT, 
 [1863-04-28] Progress of Emancipation in Missouri.
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		<title>March 5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven men joined the regiment today.
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-03-05] The Anti-Slavery Demonstrations.
 [1863-03-05] Compensated Emancipation&#8211;The Condition of Missouri. 

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		<title>January 11-22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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[1863-01-11]Stopping the Slavery Agitation.

[1863-01-12]CONGRESS.

[1863-01-13]Kentucky and Emancipation.

[1863-01-15]EMANCIPATION MEETINGS IN ENGLAND.; THE WORKINGMEN OF MANCHESTER.

[1863-01-20]HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

[1863-01-21]Another Emancipation Jubilee.

[1863-01-22]AMEN TO THE PROCLAMATION.; Wendell Phillips&#8217; Oration at the Cooper Institute. The Liberation and Arming of the Slave the Salvation of the Republic.

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		<title>January 3-7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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NYTimes archive links:
[1863-01-03] Emancipation.  President Lincolnâ€™s Proclamation
[1863-01-04] Colored Jubilee in Brooklyn
[1863-01-05] Rebel Murder of Blacks
[1863-01-06] The Presidentâ€™s Proclamation
[1863-01-06] The Edict of Emancipation
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		<title>January 1, 1863: Final Emancipation Proclamation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1863 opened with the issuance of the Final Emancipation Proclamation on New Year&#8217;s Day:

By the President of the United States of America:
A Proclamation.
Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prologue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was the first Civil War Union regiment to be composed of enlisted men drawn from the free blacks of the North. Â It as made possible by the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863, and was initially the subject of bitter controversy. Â However, the extraordinary performance and [...]]]></description>
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