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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; Robert Shaw</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>October 2-3, 1863</title>
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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 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>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 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 7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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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 4-5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio ( [BBR] p.109):
August 5 the men were informed that the Government was ready to pay them $ 10 per month, less $3 deducted for clothing. The offer was refused, although many had suffering families. About this time a number of men wereÂ detached, or detailed, as clerks, butchers, and as hands on the steamers &#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 25-28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio quotes the dispatches of several newspaper correspondents concerning the performance of the 54th ( [BBR] pp.93-94).  Gen. Strong was wounded in the assault and died on July 30, 1863.
Samuel W. Mason, correspondent of the New York &#8220;Herald,&#8221; on Morris Island, wrote under date of July 19, 1863, of the regiment: â€”
&#8221; I saw [...]]]></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 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 21, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephens describes the James Island action and the assault on Ft. Wagner in his fifth letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
Morris Island, S.C., [VT]
July 21,1863.
Mr. Editor:
The month of July has been an eventful one for the 54th. We left our camp at St. Helena on theâ€”inst., and landed at James Island on theâ€”, fought the second [...]]]></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 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 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 16, 1863</title>
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The Confederates attacked on James Island today, and the men of the 54th distinguished themselves by their steadfastness.  Here is Emilio&#8217;s description of the battle ( [BBR], pp.57-63):

In the gray of early dawn of July 16, the troops in bivouac on James Island were awakened by dropping shots, and then heavy firing on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 15, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his wife Annie; it will turn out to be his last to her:
James&#8217; Island, S.C. [BCF]
July 15,1863
My Dearest Annie,
Your letters of June 3d, 14th, and 28th, and July 3d, 4th, and 5th, came to-day, and I felt horridly ashamed of myself for having blamed you for not taking care to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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A (fragment) of a letter from Shaw to his wife Annie:

July 13,1863 [BCF]
My Dearest Annie,
I sent the family letter to Father, to this date, and you will get it very soon after this. You will see from it what we have been doing lately.
I should have been Major of the Second now if I had [...]]]></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 7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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A letter, dated the 6th, from Shaw to Brigade commander Brig. Gen. George C. Strong:

ST. HELENA ISLAND, July 6, 1863.  [BBR],p.49
BRIG.-GEN. GEORGE C. STRONG.
GENERAL, â€” I did not pay my respects to you before you left this post because I did not wish to disturb you when making your preparations for departure.
I desire, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Charles Douglass to his father Frederick Douglass â€”Â Charles originally enlisted in the 54th, but transferred to the 55th Mass. as it was forming in May, and later in 1864, transferred to the 5th Massachusets Cavalry (colored), a dismounted unit; together with a long letter from Shaw to his wife:
Readville Camp Meigs
July 6th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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A letter from Shaw to his mother, begun on the 3rd, extended on the 4th, and completed on the 6th:

July 3,1863[BCF]
Dearest Mother,
You will have been sometime without letters from me, when you receive this, as the &#8220;Arago&#8221; was not allowed to take a mail last week, I understand, because of the late movement on Charleston. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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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 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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A letter from Shaw to his friend and former fellow office from the 2nd Massachusetts, Charles Fessneden Morse.  On this day, Morse was fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg with the 2nd Massachusetts.  He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on the day following. Today was the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

St. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 2, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Emilio describes the beginning of the pay controversy and quotes Shaw&#8217;s letter to Gov. Andrew on the subject ( [BBR] pp.47-48). Notably, today was the second day of the ]]></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 28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
St. Helena&#8217;s Island, S.C.[BCF]
June 28 1863
Dearest Mother,
Your note of the 20th came to me on board the &#8220;Benj. DeFord&#8221; just after I had sent my last ashoreâ€”also letters from Father of the 10, 13, 15, 18, 19 Inst. &#38; others from Annie, Effie &#38; Harry. Some of Annie&#8217;s have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 26, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephens&#8217;s fourth letter to the Weekly Anglo-African, and a letter from Shaw to his wife Annie:
June 1863. [VT]
Mr. Editor:
â€”Our regiment has been on the move ever since our arrival at Beaufort. Our active and brave leader, Col. Montgomery, gives none under his command time to rot, sicken and die in camp. No sooner does he [...]]]></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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		<title>June 24, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his father.  Noteworthy:  Lee&#8217;s invasion of the North accelerated today with Hill&#8217;s and Longstreet&#8217;s corps (the remainder of Lee&#8217;s army) beginning the crossing of the Potomac into Maryland.
St. Simon&#8217;s Island [BCF]
June 24,1863
Dear Father,
Yours of the 9th came to hand last evening. At the same time we received news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 22, 1863</title>
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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 20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his brother-in-law Charles Russell Lowell, Jr (married to Shaw&#8217;s sister Effie) who was a colonel in the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry and was killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek in October, 1864:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga. [BCF]
June 20,1863
My dear Charley,
I received your kind letter before I left Readvilleâ€”and beg you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island [BCF]
June 18 1863
Dearest Mother,
We have received nothing since our first mail, which I mentioned in my last to you. Captain Rand arrived at Beaufort after we had left there, and your second note arrived at the same time with the first. I am very glad you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 17, 1863</title>
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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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		<title>June 15, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his sister.  Worthy of note: Lee&#8217;s second invasion of the North began today as Ewell&#8217;s Second Corps began crossing the Potomac river into Maryland.
St. Simon&#8217;s Island [BCF]
June 15,1863
My Dear Effie,
I received yours of 31 May, day before yesterday. Before you receive this, you will know, from my letters to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 13, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island [BCF]
June 13 1863
Dearest Mother,
Last evening I received your two letters of the 31st May, &#38;Â 1st Juneâ€”one from Annie, two from Father &#38; one from Effie. This is the first news I have had since I left home. I hope you have received all mine. This should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 10, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the burning of Darien ([BBR]):
After a rather rough voyage of some eighty miles during the night, the &#8221; De Molay &#8221; dropped anchor at 6 A. M. [on the 9th] in the sound off the southern point of St. Simon&#8217;s Island.Â  Colonel Shaw landed and rode across the island to report to Colonel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 9, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his wife Annie:
St. Simon&#8217;s Island, Ga. [BCF]
Tuesday, June 9,1863
My Dearest Annie,
We arrived at the southern point of this island at six this morning. I went ashore to report to Colonel Montgomery, and was ordered to proceed with my regiment to a place called &#8220;Pike&#8217;s Bluff,&#8221; on the inner coast of [...]]]></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 6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Beaufort [BCF]
June 6, 1863
Dear Mother,
The mail which was to have gone last night is still here, so I can send you a few lines.
Col. Montgomery sailed yesterday, and we shall go after him before long, I suppose.
This is an odd sort of place. All the original inhabitants are gone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his father:
Beaufort, S.C. [BCF]
June 5 1863
Dear Father,
We came down from Hilton Head day before yesterday. I saw Col. Montgomery, who was about to embark for an expedition to Georgia. I immediately requested permission to go with him but was too late, and shall probably follow tomorrow or day after. I [...]]]></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>June 1, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his (new) wife, Annie:
Steamer De Molay [BCF]
June 1,1863, Off Cape Hatteras
Dearest Annie,
We have got thus far on our voyage without accident, excepting the loss of Major Hallowell&#8217;s mare, which died this morning, and was consigned to the sea.
We left the wharf at 4 P.M., having been detained nearly two hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 31, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio (pp.35-36) provided this description of the voyage from Boston to Port Royal (the map Voyage from  Boston to Port Royal describes the route):

May 29, the sea was smooth all day, and the weather fine but not clear. Martha&#8217;s Vineyard and Nantucket were passed in the morning. At night a fine moon rose. Foggy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 28, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio ( [BBR]pp.31-33) describes the departure from the Readville camp and the parade through Boston to the departure on a steamer.  The map Parade Route Through Boston displays the parade route through Boston.
Gen. David Hunter, commanding the Department of the South, desired the Fifty-fourth sent to South Carolina. His wishes were gratified; for on [...]]]></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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		<description><![CDATA[
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 17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Readville [BCF]
May 17 1863
Dear Mother,
We were very sorry not to find you in the train last night, and to hear that you were ill. Â Nellie arrived safely and is at present domiciled with Effie &#38; us at Mrs. Crehore&#8217;s.
Tomorrow, if it is not stormy, there are to be four-banners [...]]]></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 6, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his sister:
Lenox [BCF]
May 6,1863
My Dear Effie,
Annie and I shall be in Boston on Monday. Will you please tell Mrs. Crehore to expect us on Tuesday? Â No matter whether she wants us or not, we are coming. I was very glad to hear from Mother that Charley (&#8221;Katie&#8221;) had got to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 08:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse:
Lenox, Mass. [BCF]
May 3,1863
My dear Charley,
I can only guess at your whereabouts. The papers tell us that you are once more at work in good earnest. How I wish I were to take my share in this campaign, and that my future fighting were to be [...]]]></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 17, 1863</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norwood Hallowell joined the regiment today as a Lieutenant Colonel.  Peter Vogelsang joined Company H of the regiment as a Sergeant today.  He was subsequently promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant, and later commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and then as a 1st Lieutenant.


Two letters from Shaw, to his mother and to his father:
Readville [BCF]
April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Readville [BCF]
April 14 1863
Dearest Mother,
Annie received your note this morning, and showed it to me. I am very glad, of course, that you feel perfectly satisfied about our marriage. She and I agree that it is much better to have it as quiet as possible. If it were to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Boston [BCF]
April 8,1863
Dearest Mother,
Your note, enclosing Uncle George&#8217;s, arrived to-day. I hope you will get over your idea that I was so annoyed with your letter. I knew very well that you would not be in favour of our marrying now, and was not disappointed or annoyed. I assure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 7, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Readville [BCF]
April 7 1863
Dearest Mother,
I didn&#8217;t mean to worry you by what I said of our being sent away suddenly. I really thought you knew the officers of coloured regiments were supposed to be in rather a ticklish situation, if caught by the Rebelsâ€”and it was not any feeling [...]]]></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 2, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his brother-in-law George Curtis (married to Shaw&#8217;s sister Anna), and to his father:
Readville [BCF]
April 2/63
Dear George,
Your letter of the 31 March reached me yesterday. I have already seen Mr. Guerrier several times. I liked him very well, but didn&#8217;t think him one of the best on our list of applicants. [...]]]></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 31, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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Robert Gould Shaw officially joined the regiment today, as a Major.  He was promoted to Colonel of the regiment on April 17, 1863.
NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-03-31] THE EXPECTED ATTACK ON CHARLESTON.
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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 25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Lewis Henry Douglass, the oldest son of Frederick Douglass, joined Company F of the regiment on this day.  He became Sergeant-Major of the regiment on April 23, 1863.
A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Readville [BCF]
March 25 1863
Dear Mother,
I have received two notes from you, one about our course of conduct at Aunt Mary&#8217;s, and [...]]]></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 14, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his fiance:
Boston[BCF]
March 14,1863
My Dear Annie,
Your yesterday&#8217;s letters reached me this morning, and gave me more pleasure than I can tell you.
I find that Mother is not coming to Boston in a fortnight; so please don&#8217;t change your mind, but come on the 21st. I will go up and meet you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 12, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse:
Boston [BCF]
March 12,1863
My dear Charley,
I received your note enclosing Brangle&#8217;s bill &#38; send you now (8) Eight dolls.
We are getting on swimmingly, having near 250 men in camp. My Officers too are pretty good, some of them excellent.
I came down from Lenox last night, where I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 10, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio [BBR] describes the support for the regiment among Massachusetts residents:
In consequence of the cold weather there was some suffering in the regimental camp. When this became known, a meeting was held at a private residence on March 10, and a committee of six ladies and four gentlemen was appointed to procure comforts, necessities, and [...]]]></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 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his father and to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse:
Readville [BCF]
March 4,1863
Dear Father,
I have just received yours of the 3d inst. Governor Andrew says that all Colonel Higginson&#8217;s men, and the Colonel himself, wish to get into the regular United States uniform; and strongly advises our sticking to it. We are [...]]]></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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		<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 21, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his friend Charles Fessenden Morse:
Boston [BCF]
February 21,1863
My dear Charley,
Your letter with enclosures reached me yesterday. I am much obliged to you for attending to those matters. Do I owe you anything? Please let me know as soon as possible. I think Johnson&#8217;s bill was a little more than I supposed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his mother and to a cousin:
Boston [BCF] 
Feby 20 1863
Dear Mother,
You have probably been looking for a letter from me for some days, but I have had so much to do that I couldn&#8217;t write. My interviews with the Govr have been very satisfactoryÂ â€”Â and we are getting along better than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letters from Shaw to his father and to his fiance:
Boston [BCF]
Feb. 18,1863
Dear Father,
Will you please inquire of Judge Emerson where his son Charles is to be found, and whether he would take a First Lieutenancy in the coloured regiment. I liked what I saw of him at college very much, and am very anxious to [...]]]></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 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his fiance Annie and to his Father. Â By now he has decided to accept Governor Andrew&#8217;s offer of command of the regiment.
Stafford C.H.,Va. [BCF]
Feb. 8,1863
Dear Annie,
You know by this time, perhaps, that I have changed my mind about the black regiment. After Father left, I began to think I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Â Shaw to his fiance Annie. Â Here he tells her that he (initially) turned down Governor Andrew&#8217;s offer
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Stafford Court-House, Va. [BCF]
Feb. 4,1863
My Dear Annie,
Your two letters, of the 25th and 29th of January, have reached me at last, and I was glad enough to get them. By this time you are on your [...]]]></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 30, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Governor Andrew decided to offer theÂ colonelcy of the 54th to (then) Captain R.G. Shaw, and wrote to Shaw&#8217;s father to enlist his aid in convincing Shaw to accept the commision; this is followed by the Governor&#8217;s letter to Shaw himself:
BOSTON, Jan. 30, 1863.
FRANCIS G. SHAW, Esq., Staten Island, N. Y.
DEAR SIR,
â€”As you may have seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 25, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two letters from Shaw, to his fiance Annie and his sister Effie:
Stafford C. H. [BCF]
Jan. 25,1863
Dear Annie,
I found your letter of the 14th here, last night, when we arrived. Please do not think of not sending me a letter, because you fancy it stupid; for they always give me a great deal of pleasure. Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his mother:
Washington, D.C. [BCF]
Jan. 23,1863
Dear Mother,
We arrived here at, or about 8 o&#8217;clock this morning, and find we can&#8217;t get away until to-morrow morning.  We were an hour and a half too early last evening, as the train left at 7 1/2 instead of 6. It was provoking to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 10, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from Shaw to his fiance Annie:
Fairfax Station, Va. [BCF]
Jan. 10,1863
Dear Annie,
Your letter of the 5th inst., enclosing the vignette, came last night. At first IÂ thought the latter was not good at all, but now I begin to like it, and am veryÂ glad indeed to have it. I have noticed that very often you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Gould Shaw had been serving in the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry for almost two years, and would become the commander of the newly forming 54th Massachusetts in several months:

Fairfax Station [BCF]
Jan. 8,1863
Dearest Mother,
On the outside of my last letter to you I mentioned having received yours enclosing one from Uncle Henry; we have had [...]]]></description>
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