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	<title>Written in Glory &#187; siege of Ft Wagner</title>
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		<title>September 20, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes archive links:
 [1863-09-20] OPERATIONS AT CHARLESTON.; Arrival of the McClellan with 100 Prisoners Gen. Gillmore Mounting Siege Guns at Cumming&#8217;s Point to Bombard Charleston.
 [1863-09-20] The Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg.; AN INTERESTING REPORT BY COL. MANN, OF THE THIRTY-NINTH ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS.
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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 14-18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 16, General Quincy Gillmore issue this general order to all of the troops in his command ( [BBR] pp.126-127):
DEPARTMENT OP THE SOUTH,
MORRIS ISLAND, S. C, Sept. 16, 1863.
It is with no ordinary feelings of gratification and pride that the brigadier-general commanding is enabled to congratulate this army upon the signal success which has [...]]]></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 6-8, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the culmination of the siege in the final fall of Fort Wagner ( [BBR] pp.120-126):
Early on the 5th the land batteries,&#8221; Ironsides,&#8221; and two monitors opened1 a terrific bombardment on Wagner which lasted forty-two hours. Under its protection our sap progressed in safety. Wagner dared not show a man, while the approaches were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 5, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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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>September 4, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Stephens&#8216; s seventh letter to the Weekly Anglo-African:
Morris Island, S.C., [VT]
Sept. 4, 1863.
Mr. Editor: There is so much of exciting interest to communicate, and there is so much danger of violating the orders of Gen. Gillmore regarding &#8220;contraband information,&#8221; that one scarcely knows where to commence or where to end. The recent order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 31-September 3, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes appoaching climax of the Ft. Wagner siege ( [BBR] pp.116-119):
With our capture of the ridge on the 26th the last natural cover was attained. Beyond for two hundred yards stretched a strip of sand over which the besiegers must advance. It seemed impossible to progress far, as each attempt to do so resulted [...]]]></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 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>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 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 17-22, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the next stage of the siege ( [BBR] pp.111-113):
Shortly after daybreak, August 17, the first bombardment of Sumter began from the land batteries, the navy soon joining in action. The fire of certain guns was directed against Wagner and Gregg. Sumter was pierced time, and again until the walls looked like a honeycomb. [...]]]></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 10-12, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emilio describes the tedious work of building for the siege( [BBR] p.110):
&#8230; No rain fell from July 18 until August 13, which was favorable for the siege work, as the sand handled was dry and light. This dryness, however, rendered it easily displaced by the wind, requiring constant labor in re-covering magazines, bombproofs, and the [...]]]></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 23, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bombardment of Ft Sumter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov John Andrew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luis Emilio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[siege of Ft Wagner]]></category>

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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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