Glory
The movie Glory is a very touching and inspiring movie, and it is believed by many to be the best war movie of all time. The movie is based on the letters of Robert Gould Shaw and it is a true story about the formation of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts and the impact that they had on the outcome of the war. The story was largely seen through the eyes of Robert Gould Shaw, the young commanding officer of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment. The Fifty-fourth was the first black regular army regiment in the Civil War. Robert Gould Shaw was born in Boston on October 10, 1837. He died in action during the assault on Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863. He was born into a wealthy family of abolitionist parents. Shaw was brave and courageous and he possessed many other important qualities that helped him become a great leader. The story started out with Shaw serving as a Captain with the Second Massachusetts Infantry at the Battle of Antietam where he was wounded. Anteitam was one of General Lee's first mistakes of the war. The South had been winning most of the battles up until then and they had driven the Union Army back into the North. Lee then decided to take the offensive and attack the Yankees
The black troops were undisciplined so Shaw brought in a tough Irish sergeant major named Mulcahy that helped toughen them up. He was the classic image of a drill sergeant that we are used to seeing today. at Antietam, which is located in North Carolina. There were many different reasons for blacks to join the army and fight. They were forced to walk and perform duties with shoes that were so worn out that there were holes worn in the bottoms of them and their feet were worn and bloody most of the time. Most of them were freed slaves or runaway slaves who either wanted to get back at the South for allowing slavery or had no place to go after they were free and so they joined the army for a source of income. The Fifty-fourth regiment inspired the army to create even more black regiments and President Lincoln credited the black soldiers with turning the tide of the war. One incident was when the men needed new shoes. He was hard on all of the troops but he was especially hard on Thomas Searles. In the final battle scene, Colonel Shaw and the rest of the Fifty-fourth regiment led the Union Army in the attack on Fort Wagner, where over half the men in the regiment, along with Colonel Shaw, died. He was one of Robert's best friends and he had a good job working for Robert's father. But as soon as he realized how bad the problem had become, he went to the quarter master and ordered him to give his regiment six hundred pairs of shoes and twelve hundred pairs of socks. It was so bad that one of the men, Trip, left camp one night to try to find a better pair of shoes. Shaw asks a soldier by the name of Rawlins to be the calm, stabilizing force in the company and the one who would let him know what the men really felt and needed. The story then focused more on the blacks who joined the regiment and the formation and training of the regiment itself.
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