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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; Gen Quincy Gillmore</title>
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		<title>December 12, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 41st letter to the Mercury

Mercury, December 28, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Dec. 12, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The week just past has been one of unusual interest in the Department of the South. The first item is the loss of one of the iron monitors, on the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 6th. The cause of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 24-27, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes another incident in the pay dispute ( [BBR] pp.135-140):
News was received the last of November that the matter of pay had come up in a new form. Governor Andrew in his message recommended the provisions of an Act which passed the Massachusetts Legislature November 16 in words as follows: &#8221; An Act to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 25-30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the renewed bombardment of Ft. Sumter, and the renaming of captured works ( [BBR] pp.133-134):
Our new and old works being in readiness at Cumming&#8217;s Point, what General Gillmore calls the &#8221; second bombardment of Sumter &#8221; was begun October 26. Its purpose was to prevent guns being mounted there, and to cut down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 08:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 34th letter to the Mercury

Mercury, November 5, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Oct. 17, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last, little has occurred worth mentioning in affaires de guerre. But we may hope for something pretty soon, as there are indications that powder is soon to be used in very large quantities. To give the reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 29-30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-09-29] THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.; Gen. Gillmore Still Mounting Siege Guns.
 [1863-09-30] THE REBELLION.
 [1863-09-30] FROM CHARLESTON HARBOR.; THE PROGRESS OF OPERATIONS. PLANTING GUNS UNDER FIRE&#8230;The Colored Brigade
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		<title>September 24-25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes settling into the (long) siege of Charleston proper ( [BBR] pp.128-130):
Morris Island was ours; but no sooner had the enemy evacuated than Wagner, Gregg, and the intervening ground were daily subjected to a fire from the James and Sullivan&#8217;s Island batteries.
&#8230;
As Forts Wagner and Gregg were ordered to be turned for offensive purposes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 19, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 29th letter to the Mercury and Stephens&#8217;s eighth letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
Mercury, October 1, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Sept 19, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”&#8221;All quiet&#8221; in this department of the South is a very appropriate mode of expressing the operations the past week with us here. Although you may expect at no distant day to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 14-18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 16, General Quincy Gillmore issue this general order to all of the troops in his command ( [BBR] pp.126-127):
DEPARTMENT OP THE SOUTH,
MORRIS ISLAND, S. C, Sept. 16, 1863.
It is with no ordinary feelings of gratification and pride that the brigadier-general commanding is enabled to congratulate this army upon the signal success which has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 10-13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-09-10] The Operations in Charleston Harbor.
 [1863-09-10] HIGHLY IMPORTANT.; Glorious Progress of the Operations Against Charleston. CAPTURE OF FORT WAGNER. Evacuation of the Whole of Morris Island by the Rebels.
 [1863-09-10] PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE OPERATIONS; Another Bombardment of Fort Sumter 
 [1863-09-11] OPERATIONS AGAINST CHARLESTON; Nineteen Guns and Seventyfive Men Captured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 28th letter to the Mercury
Mercury, September 21, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Sept. 9, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”At last Wagner and Gregg have the old flag waving over them. Sumter is a mass of shapeless ruins; Gregg is occupied by our forces, a small detachment of men, to repair and hold it. The agreeable fact was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Stephens&#8216; s seventh letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
Morris Island, S.C., [VT]
Sept. 4, 1863.
Mr. Editor: There is so much of exciting interest to communicate, and there is so much danger of violating the orders of Gen. Gillmore regarding &#8220;contraband information,&#8221; that one scarcely knows where to commence or where to end. The recent order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 31-September 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes appoaching climax of the Ft. Wagner siege ( [BBR] pp.116-119):
With our capture of the ridge on the 26th the last natural cover was attained. Beyond for two hundred yards stretched a strip of sand over which the besiegers must advance. It seemed impossible to progress far, as each attempt to do so resulted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 25-29, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the grinding advance down the beach to Ft. Wagner ( [BBR] pp.114-116):
Captain Partridge about August 23 applied for sick leave and shortly went north. In consequence Captain Emilio again became the senior officer and was at times in charge of the regiment until the middle of October. On the 23d the brigade was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this letter to General Gillmore, Shaw&#8217;s father halted the attempts to retrieve Shaw&#8217;s body for reburial elsewhere:
New York, Aug. 24, 1863
Brigadier-General Gillmore, Commanding Department of the South.
Sir,&#8211;I take the liberty to address you because I am informed that efforts are to be made to recover the body of my son, Colonel Shaw of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 25th letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, September 7, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Aug. 23, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Supposing a detailed account of the operations now in progress in this quarter would prove interesting to your readers, I have taken the pains to jot them down as they occur, trusting to the leniency of the commanding officer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 17-22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the next stage of the siege ( [BBR] pp.111-113):
Shortly after daybreak, August 17, the first bombardment of Sumter began from the land batteries, the navy soon joining in action. The fire of certain guns was directed against Wagner and Gregg. Sumter was pierced time, and again until the walls looked like a honeycomb. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 14-15, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-08-14] MILITARY NEWS TO BE SUPPRESSED.; A STRINGENT ORDER FROM GEN. GILLMORE
 [1863-08-14] The First Pennsylvania Colored Regiment
 [1863-08-14] THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.; Arrival of the Arago, with Advices to the 10th&#8230;
 [1863-08-15] THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.; Official Dispatches from Admiral Dahlgren.
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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>August 3, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 22nd letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, August 16, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, August 3, 1863
Messrs. Editors:â€”
The latest news from this department is the capture of a blockade runner having on board heavy Whitworth guns. The guns captured are now in course of erection on the north end of the Island to bombard the fort, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding describes the James Island action and the assault in his 20th letter to the Mercury, and Lewis Douglass describes the battle in a letter to his wife:
Mercury, August 1, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, July 20, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”At last we have something stirring to record. The 54th, the past week, has proved itself twice in battle. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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The (second) assault on Fort Wagner took place today, with 600 men of the 54th Massachusetts in the lead of three brigades.  The regiment reached the top of the parapet, but was repulsed.  Shaw was killed at the top of the parapet, rallying the 54th forward.   Of the 600 men of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the immediate overnight march from James Island to Morris Island and the preparations for the assault on the 18th ( [BBR] pp.63-72):
General Terry was ordered to evacuate James Island that night. At about five o&#8217;clock P. M., the Fifty-fourth was relieved by the Fifty-second Pennsylvania, and returned to the bivouac. While awaiting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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A letter from Shaw to his wife Annie, begun today, extended on the 11th, and completed on the 13:

Stono River, S.C. [RGS][BCF]
July 9,1863 (James&#8217; Island)
My Darling Annie,
Just after closing my last, on the envelope of which I said we were ordered away from St. Helena&#8217;s Island, we embarked on board the &#8220;Chasseur.&#8221; We sailed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio describes the beginning of the descent on James Island ( [BBR] pp.51-52):

All suspense regarding the employment of the Fifty-fourth ended July 8, with the receipt, about noon, of orders to move at an hour&#8217;s notice, taking only blankets and rations. Three hours after, the regiment began to embark, headquarters with seven companies finding transportation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 4, 1863</title>
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A letter from Shaw to his father:

St. Helena I.[BCF]
July 4,1863
Dear Father,
All the troops, excepting the coloured Regiments, are ordered to FollyÂ Island. There will be a grand attack on Charleston, I suppose. I feel very much disappointed at being left behind, especially after Montgomery was promised by Genl Gilmore that we should have our share in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 1, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Two letters from Shaw, to his father and to his wife&#8217;s sister Clem.  Notably: The Battle of Gettysburg began today.


St. Helena Island S.C.[BCF]
July 1, 1863
Dear Father,
In my last to Mother, I mentioned receipt of all your letters, and yesterday, your other two of the 22d ulto. came to hand, having gone first to Beaufort. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 30, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio described this period as follows ( [BBR], pp.46-48):
&#8230;Brig.-Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore had relieved General Hunter. Admiral John A. Dahlgren was to replace Admiral Dupont. Tidings of these changes, of Lee having crossed the Rappahannock, the capture of Harper&#8217;s Ferry, and the investment of Port Hudson, were received by the &#8220;Harriet A. Weed,&#8221; on June [...]]]></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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		<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 17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his his wife&#8217;s sister Clemence Haggerty:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga. [BCF]
June 17,1863
My Dear Clem.,
You have probably heard from Annie of our adventures since we left Boston; that is, if my many letters reached her. We are entirely isolated here, and know nothing of what has been going on in other parts [...]]]></description>
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