Glory

Glory was a very good movie, and I think that it portrayed life back then and the battle pretty accurately. A lot of the movie was very shocking to me. The way the colored soldiers were treated was very harsh and even though I knew they were treated badly back during the war time, I didn't know what they went through exactly. The contrabands especially surprised me because they were the ones who had to pick up the dead bodies of the soldiers who died in battle. Also, the hospital they were taken care of in was very different from hospitals today. They didn't have the proper tools to clean their instruments so they just had them sitting in tubs of bloody water. The nurses would have to reuse the tools and if someone had a disease, it could be easily transferred to the other soldiers. I think the main reason that blacks joined the army back then was because they wanted to get freedom in reward. They could have joined with no idea how to be a soldier but they were intensely trained to march correctly and to shoot a gun correctly. Robert Shaw accepts the job of Col. of the 54th Colored Regiment and I think that was a huge statement to make especially because he is a white man and the Union did not accept colored regiment. Shaw did a great job of training them and making them ready for war. African-Americans were treated horribly during the Civil War and no one deserves to be treated that way.Their punishments (like Trip) were severe and they didn't get to protest against it. I think the battle scene at Fort Wagner was very scary and hard to watch. Soldiers who choose to join the army must know how terrifying being at war is, where everyone is counting on you to win.