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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; Luis Emilio</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 22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Notable today: Captain Luis Emilio, born in 1844, is 19 years old today.  He has commanded Company E since May 23, and has intermittently commanded the entire regiment since the assault on Fort Wagner on July 18. He has been fighting in the Union army since 1861 (when he was 16 years old).
NYTimes archive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 13-16, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes personnel changes in October ( [BBR] pp.132-3):
Henry N. Hooper, formerly captain, Thirty-second Massachusetts Infantry, commissioned major of the Fifty-fourth, arrived October 16, and relieved Captain Emilio of the command. It was his fortune to lead the regiment for a longer period and in more actions than any other officer, owing to the assignment [...]]]></description>
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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>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>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 19, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the aftermath of the assault ( [BBR], pp.86-93):
Although the storming column and supports did not move forward with a close formation and promptness in support of the Fifty-fourth, which might have won Wagner that night, their attacks when made were delivered with a gallantry and persistence that made their severe losses the more [...]]]></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 10-12, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio describes ( [BBR], pp.51-55) the lead-up to the 54th&#8217;s first major action:

Heavy cannonading was heard in the direction of MorrisÂ Island, at 5 A. M. on the 10th. Before night word cameÂ that all the ground south of Fort Wagner on Morris IslandÂ was captured with many guns and prisoners. This newsÂ was received with rousing cheers by [...]]]></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>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>January 31-February 2, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio provided ([BBR] p.5) this description of Shaw:
Francis G. Shaw himself took the formal proffer to his son, then in Virginia. After due deliberation, Captain Shaw, on February 6, telegraphed his acceptance.
Robert Gould Shaw &#8230;was born Oct. 10, 1837, in Boston, was carefully educated at home and abroad in his earlier years, and admitted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 2, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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First Lieutenant Luis F. Emilio became the Captain of Company E of the 54th Massachusetts on May 27, 1863.  He was the only surviving field officer not incapacitated with wounds after the assault on Fort Wagner and became the Regiment&#8217;s acting commander.   He fought through the entire war,  until mustering out [...]]]></description>
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