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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; Frederick Douglass</title>
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		<title>August 13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frederick Douglass served as a recruiter for the 54th and for other units in several regions of the country.  Here is a letter to him regarding this:
War Department
Adjutant Generals Office
Washington DC Augt 13, 1863
Sir,
I am instructed by the Secretary of War to direct you to proceed to Vicksburg, Mississippi, and on your arrival there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 7, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Stephens&#8217;s 6th letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
In Camp, [VT]
Morris Island, S.C.,
Aug. 7/ 1863.
Mr. Editor:
Since I wrote my last letter the startling news of the mobs, riots, incendiarism, pillage and slaughter, recently so rife in the North, particularly in New York City, has reached here. You may judge what our thoughts and feelings were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Charles Douglass to his father Frederick Douglass â€”Â Charles originally enlisted in the 54th, but transferred to the 55th Mass. as it was forming in May, and later in 1864, transferred to the 5th Massachusets Cavalry (colored), a dismounted unit; together with a long letter from Shaw to his wife:
Readville Camp Meigs
July 6th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio ( [BBR]pp.31-33) describes the departure from the Readville camp and the parade through Boston to the departure on a steamer.  The map Parade Route Through Boston displays the parade route through Boston.
Gen. David Hunter, commanding the Department of the South, desired the Fifty-fourth sent to South Carolina. His wishes were gratified; for on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 08:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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The presentation of flags to the regiment occurred today.  Gooding&#8217;s 13th letter to the Mercury described the ceremonies, as did Shaw&#8217;s brief letter to his mother, and Emilio provided an extended description including full quotes of the speeches; a picture of the flags dating from after the war appears at right:
Mercury, May 20, 1863
Camp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 16, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 08:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 12th letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, May 18, 1863 [OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, May 16
Messrs. Editors:
â€”As we fondly expected last week, the 54th is now full, and as &#8220;Artemas&#8221; expresses it, &#8220;it slopt over,&#8221; so the spilt ones are now the germ of another regiment, the 55th. The Journal of Commerce, some weeks since, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Charles Douglass &#8212; youngest son of Frederick Douglass &#8212; joined Company F of the regiment today.
This is  Gooding &#8217;s eighth letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, April 21, 1863 [OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, April 18
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has been marked by nothing extraordinary with us here, excepting a share of fine weather, which must be considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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From the Massachusetts Hist. Soc. collection

Henry F. Steward enlisted today as a sergeant in Company E.
Another recruiting exhortation by Douglass, published the April issue of Douglass&#8217; Monthly:
WHY SHOULD A COLORED MAN ENLIST?
This question has been repeatedly put to us while raising men for the 54th Massachusetts regiment during the past five weeks, and perhaps we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 21, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recruiting speech by Frederick Douglass, and a letter from Shaw to his father:

A speech first given by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, NY on March 2, 1863, and later published in Douglassâ€™s Monthly on March 21, 1863.  Douglass recruited over 100 men for the regiment, including two of his sons, Lewis and Charles.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 15, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third letter from  Gooding to the Mercury
[Mercury, March 18, 1863][OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, March 15
Messrs. Editors:â€š
â€”Presuming a few lines from this locality would prove interesting to some of your many readers, I have taken upon myself the task of penning them. Among the men in this camp the New Bedford men stand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-03-08] Charleston and its Defences
 [1863-03-08] Organization of Colored Soldiers.
 [1863-03-08] &#8220;Men of Color, To Arms.&#8221;; A CALL FROM FRED. DOUGLASS. 
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		<title>February 22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio [BBR] quotes from a speech of Frederick Douglass which was published in Douglass&#8217;s monthly The North Star:
&#8230; We can get at the throat of treason and slavery through the State of Massachusetts. She was first in the War of Independence ; first to break the chains of her slaves ; first to make the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 19, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An entry from Emilio [BBR] describing the early recruiting efforts:
Much the larger number of recruits were obtained through the organization and by the means which will now be described. About February 15, Governor Andrew appointed a committee to superintend the raising of recruits for the colored regiment, consisting of George L. Stearns, Amos A. Lawrence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 16, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his fiance Annie and to his Father; description of initial recruiting from Emilio [BBR 9,10]; one of the recruiting ads.
Boston [BCF]
Feb. 16,1863, Monday
Dearest Annie,
I arrived here yesterday morning, after a very uncomfortable night in the sleeping-car. I have been at work all day, looking over papers with Hallowell, and talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first person enrolled in the regiment was John Whittier Messer Appleton, who was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant today.  He became Captain of Company A on April 14, 1863, and was promoted to Major on July 18, even though wounded in the assault on Ft. Wagner.  Appleton began vigorously recruiting for the [...]]]></description>
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