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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; James Grace</title>
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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:
—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>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:—
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 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the regiment&#8217;s slow recovery and the beginnings of work on the siege of Ft. Wagner ( [BBR], pp.105-107):
Early on the morning of July 19, the men of the Fifty-fourth were aroused, and the regiment marched down the beach, making camp near the southern front of the island at a point where the higher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This letter from Lieutenant James W. Grace describing the combined action appears in [OAF] pp.39-40:
To: Brigadier General R.A. Pierce, Readville
July 22
Knowing your deep interest in the officers and men of the Regiment, I thought I would let you know how we are after our Skirmish and retreat from James Island and Fight at Morris Island.
We [...]]]></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:
—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>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.
—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>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:‚
—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 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:‚
—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 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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