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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; James Gooding</title>
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		<title>December 31, 1863: Epilogue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the last day of a signally important year for the young United States (only 87 years old), a year which began with the issuing of an Emancipation Proclamation applying only to slaves in rebelling states, yet which ended with the first of several bills proposing amendments which would totally prohibit slavery throughout the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 26, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 43rd letter to the Mercury
Mercury, January 7, 1864 [OAF]
Morris Island, Dec. 26, 1863
Strategy and Common Sense
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last there has been nothing extraordinary occurred in military affairs, and the indications are that nothing will occur between now and spring, unless brought on by the enemy. The whole face of nature now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 19, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 42nd letter to the Mercury

Mercury, January 6, 1864 [OAF]
Morris Island, Dec. 19, 1863
Charleston Harbor Supposed To Be Clear Of Obstructions
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last letter, we have been on tiptoe, expecting to see or hear the iron fleet making an effort to get into Charleston harbor; but still the Philadelphia haunts the waters [...]]]></description>
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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 28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 40th letter to the Mercury and Stephens&#8217;s tenth letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
Mercury, December 15, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Nov. 28, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has developed nothing new in military affairs that we are aware of. The bombardment of Sumter seems to have been relaxed since last Wednesday, but what the object is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 21, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 39th letter to the Mercury
Mercury, December 4, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Nov. 21, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since the last record of events in this department, the bombardment of Sumter is still kept up night and day, and still the gallant rebels are masters of the situationÂ â€”Â which, by the way, is a severe comment on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 38th letter to the Mercury

Mercury, November 26, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Nov. 14, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Still the bombardment of Sumter progresses, and still the rebels are masters of it. The firing during the week has been principally carried on by mortars, keeping it up all night. From the long continued silence of our long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 37th letter to the Mercury

Mercury, November 17, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Nov. 7, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”As I closed my letter last Sunday the guns were booming with a dull, heavy sound, and have been ever since, although not quite so many have been engaged during the past week as the one preceding. Sumter still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 31, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 36th letter to the Mercury

Mercury, November 11, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Oct. 31, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has been one of active operations here with us. Last Monday at noon, the bombardment of Sumter recommenced with a vigor unparalled in the annals of warfare. By reference to my notes, jotted down as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 35th letter to the Mercury

Mercury, November 3, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Oct. 24, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”We have no news of any great interest, save what would be considered contraband. Items are as scarce as birds&#8217; teeth; and everything and everybody is quiet as a burglar when the police are around. The rebels keep up [...]]]></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>October 10, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Gooding&#8217;s 33rd letter to the Mercury

Mercury, October 20, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Oct. 10, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The monotony of life was somewhat broken last Monday night, October 5th, by an insane attempt by the rebels to either capture or destroy the Ironsides. Their plans to destroy the vessel were to place torpedoes under her and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 2-3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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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>September 26, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 08:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 31st letter to the Mercury
Mercury, October 8, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Sept. 26, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last epistle to the &#8220;elect in Bedford,&#8221; there has nothing very eventful transpired. How long we are doomed to this monotonous state of affairs, I can&#8217;t presume to say; the army has done about all in its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding sent the following letter concerning the pay controversy directly to President Abraham Lincoln:
Letter to President Abraham Lincoln
Morris Island [S.C.]. Â Sept 28th 1863.
Your Excelency will pardon the presumtion of an humble individual like myself, in addressing you. but the earnest Solicitation of my Comrades in Arms, besides the genuine interest felt by myself in the [...]]]></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 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 5, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 27th letter to the Mercury
Morris Island, Sept. 5, 1863 [OAF]
Messrs. Editors:
â€”As there is nothing to record the past week, other than the (insignificant?) death of a dozen pickets, or as many more laborers in trenches, of course you must expect a dull letter. We had hoped the weather would continue cool, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 26th letter to the Mercury
Mercury, September 15, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Aug. 30, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has developed nothing very stirring that I am aware of, though there may be a number of manufactured &#8220;tales&#8221; in the mail gleanings, or &#8220;the very latest by telegraph.&#8221; But for the information of those who [...]]]></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 16, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 24th letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, August 29, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Aug. 16, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”As stringent orders have been recently issued relative to giving information in regard to military matters here, which is a very proper course and necessary, the amount of news is rather meagre, so I will violate no &#8220;General Orders&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 23rd letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, August 21, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Aug. 9, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Since my last weekly melange, the situation remains about the same in this department. The 55th regiment, Col. N. P. Â Hallowell commanding, arrived here from Newbern last Monday, and on Tuesday the regiment was introduced to Messrs. Shovel and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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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 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 21st letter to the Mercury describes the aftermath of the assault:
Mercury, August 4, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, July 24
Messrs. Editors:Â â€”
Since my letter of the 20th last, our forces have been busily engaged, preparing for the grand sortie on Wagner and Sumter. When everything is complete, you may expect to hear of decisive results. It is [...]]]></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>June 29, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 19th letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, July 8, 1863 [OAF]
St. Helena Island, S.C., June 29
Messrs. Editors:
â€”Instead of going on another expedition, as we all expected and hoped, we find ourselves at the headquarters of the department, and great changes made in commanders; in fact, the changes had been made at least two weeks [...]]]></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 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 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 16th letter to the Mercury, and a letter from Shaw to his father:
Beaufort, S. C, June 8th [OAF]
Messrs. Editors:
â€”We arrived at this town on the evening of the 4th, not debarking at Hilton Head. On the morning of the 5th, we left the steamer and marched to our camp ground about a quarter of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 15th letter to the Mercury, his first from South Carolina; Â three letters from Shaw â€” to his mother, his father, and his cousin, John Murray Forbes; and a letter from Maj.-General David Hunter (commanding the Department of the South) to Governor Andrew:
Mercury, June 19, 1863 [OAF]
Port Royal, June 3
Messrs. Editors:
â€”After a long passage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 08:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s 14th letter to the Mercury is the last to be written from the camp at Readville:
Mercury, May 26, 1863 [OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, May 24, 1863
Messrs. Editors:
â€”My last letter I had supposed would be the last to be written from this camp, but so much for &#8220;newspaper yarns,&#8221; we are still here. This week has [...]]]></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>May 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 08:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s 11th letter to the Mercury
Mercury, May 11, 1863  Gooding 
Camp Meigs, Readville, May 9
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has been one of progress with the 54th: 68 more men will make it a full regiment, if all the men are retained, which I think is rather doubtful, as there is about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 4, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is  Gooding &#8217;s tenth letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, May 6, 1863 [OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, May 4
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week has been one of encouragement and interest to the 54th; our muster is now 868 men, and this week I hope to chronicle the pleasing intelligence, &#8220;the 54th is full.&#8221; We have sufficient reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is  Gooding &#8217;s ninth letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, April 27, 1863 [OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, April 25
Messrs. Editors:
â€”The past week&#8217;s report of the 54th is encouraging, if not stirring. The number of recruits for the past week is 66 making a total of 740 men. Indeed, to see the men on dress parade, one [...]]]></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 11, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is  Gooding &#8217;s seventh letter to the Mercury:
Mercury, April 13, 1863[OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, April 11
Messrs. Editors.
â€”Since my last weekly epistle, we have received 315 recruits, making the total number 614, and more expected daily. The ground about the barracks has dried enough now to make walking quite a pleasure. Our company have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gooding &#8217;s sixth letter to the Mercury and a letter from Shaw to his father:
[Mercury, April 6, 1863][OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, April 3
Messrs. Editors:â€š
â€”The 54th progresses daily. This week past the men who have been in camp the longest time have been practicing in the manual of arms. It really makes one&#8217;s heart pulsate with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Luis F. Emilio joined Company E of the regiment today as a second lieutenant.  He became Captain of Company E on May 23, 1863.
 Gooding &#8217;s fifth letter to the Mercury, and a letter from Shaw to his father:
[Mercury, March 31, 1863]
Camp Meigs, Readville, March 30
Messrs. Editors:â€š
â€”As the week begins anew, I have condensed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Gooding&#8217;s fourth letter to the New Bedford Mercury:
[Mercury, March 24, 1863][OAF]
Camp Meigs, Readville, March 21
Messrs. Editors:&#8211;
The glorious 54th (that is to be) is getting onÂ nicely, there being now in camp 368 men, two companies, A and B,Â being full, and C and D wanting a few more men to fill them up, whichÂ can easily [...]]]></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 6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gooding&#8217;s second letter to the Mercury:
[Mercury, March 7, 1863]
Camp Meigs, Readville, March 6
Messrs. Editors: â€”Immediately upon our arrival here on Wednesday afternoon, we marched to the barracks, where we found a nice warm fire and a good supper in readiness for us. During the evening the men were all supplied with uniforms, and now they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Henry Gooding enlisted in Company C of the reginment on February 14, 1863, and wrote regular letters as a war correspondent to the New Bedford Mercury.  This is his first letter:
[Mercury, March 3, 1863]
Messrs. Editors:â€š
â€”As the time draws near for the departure of the men Capt. Grace has recruited, for camp, and there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 9-14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Henry Gooding enrolled in the regiment on 14 February in New Bedford.  His war correspondence to the New Bedford Mercury begins on March 3, 1863.  A total of 24 men enrolled in the regiment from the 9th to the 14th.
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[1863-02-09] Border State Loyalty.

[1863-02-10] THE WAR IN FLORIDA.; Negro Troops Against [...]]]></description>
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