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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>May 20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 08:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-05-20] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; Progress of Recruiting for the Negro Regiments. Meeting in Aid of the Movement&#8230;.. COLORED SOLDIERS. MEETING OF COLORED PEOPLE.
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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 11, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 08:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The regiment reaches its full quota of 1,000 men today, and the overflow is used to start the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
A letter from Shaw to his father:
Readville [BCF]
May 11,1863
Dear Father,
I received your note, acknowledging my last from Lenox, this morning. Annie and I got to Boston, Saturday evening; coming the last part of the [...]]]></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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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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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 30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George E.  Stephens joined Company B of the regiment today as a 1st Sergeant.  His letters to the New York Weekly Anglo-African began on March 18, 1863.  Five men altogether joined the regiment today.
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		<title>April 26-28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty-nine men joined the regiment on these three days.
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-04-26] The Negro Regiments on the Mississippi.
 [1863-04-26] THE FIGHT IN CHARLESTON HARBOR.; A DETAILED ACCOUNT.
 [1863-04-26] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON; QUIET WITH THE ARMY. A COLORED REGIMENT, 
 [1863-04-28] Progress of Emancipation in Missouri.
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		<title>April 22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-eight men joined the regiment today.
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-04-22] Editorial Article 1 &#8212; No Title; OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. THE CONTRABAND COMMISSION.
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		<title>April 21, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-nine men joined the regiment today.
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-04-21] NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; THE NEGRO TROOPS IN FLORIDA. THE BLACK SURGEON.
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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 15, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven men joined the regiment today. [BBR]
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-04-15] CHARLESTON.; Our Special Correspondence to the 11th.
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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 5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 [1863-04-05] More Colored Recruits.
 [1863-04-05] Slavery in Maryland.; A LETTER FROM POSTMASTER-GENERAL BLAIR.
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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>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>April 1, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second letter from Stephens and a letter from Shaw to his mother:
Philadelphia, [VT]
April 1,1863.
Mr. Editor.
â€”One of the most impudent assumptions of authority and a long string of the basest misrepresentations have been perpetuated by a number of white men under the leadership of one Frishmuth, an illiterate German, on the people of the State [...]]]></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 27, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Readville [BCF]
March 27,1863
Dear Mother,
Annie and I got to Boston last evening. Will you please tell me exactly what you think of our being married before I go away? I want to have your opinion about it, and Father&#8217;s too. Please ask him to write me what he thinks of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 24, 1863</title>
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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 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse, and a letter from Governor John A. Andrew:
Readeville [BCF]
March 23,1863
My dear Charley,
I received yours of the 19th today, and was very glad to hear your account of the review of 12th Corps, by Hooker. I have been expecting it for some time, as you said [...]]]></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 17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, one to his mother and one to his fiance.
Readville [BCF]
March 17,1863
Dearest Mother,
Your note of Sunday reached me to-day. I am sorry it was a mistake about your visit to Boston, though I was astonished at there being any thought of your leaving Anna just now.
I had a pleasant time at Lenox. [...]]]></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 25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his sister and to his father:
Readville [BCF]
Feb. 25,1863
Dear Effie,
I got your Sunday&#8217;s letter last night. I have not seen Colonel Lowell since, but will deliver your message at first opportunity. We have forty Darks out here now, and expect some more from New YorkÂ and New Bedford in a day or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse, and to his father:
Boston [BCF]
February 24,1863
My dear Charley,
I thought I would write to you again this morning to tell you what Lowell says of the battle of Antietam. Hooker&#8217;s &#38; Mansfield&#8217;s attack on the right was intended only for a feintâ€”and Burnside&#8217;s was to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his fiance:
Boston [BCF]
Feb. 23, (Monday) 1863
Dearest Annie,
We have opened the camp at Readville, got the barracks in good order, and sent twenty-seven men out there. I have a good quartermaster, who has got all the necessary stores out there, and seems to be attending to his business in the most [...]]]></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 15, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio wrote  [BBR,6]:
Captain Shaw arrived in Boston on February 15, and at once assumed the duties of his position. Captain Hallowell was already there, daily engaged in the executive business of the new organization; and about the middle ofÂ February, his brother, Edward N. Hallowell, who had served as a lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts [...]]]></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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