Glory Movie Analysis

The movie glory is a movie based on real life events that took place during the Civil War. Although a lot of the scenes are inspired on real life events many details are replaced to make the movie more dramatic. The movie glory is based upon the 54th regiment which was the first unit consisting of African American soldiers. This was a very controversial and was an event that the public kept a close eye on.
Until 1863 the union had not made any effort to get African American to enroll as a soldier. In December 1882 the Emancipation Proclamation allow the union to finally allow the union to enroll African Americans into the army. During the Civil War state governors were in charge of raising regiments for federal use. John Albion Andrew authorized

At the beginning the government assured the African American soldiers equal pay but that promise didn’t last long .White soldiers were getting paid thirteen dollars a week and African American soldiers were getting paid ten dollars a week. Many thought that they couldn’t be called soldiers for they hadn’t seen any action in the battlefield. Instead they had just been traveling being an African American workforce so many wondered why they should be paid as much as a white soldier if they aren’t fighting the confederate. The 54th Regiment went into protest refusing their salary through most of the war. Although in the movie glory the colonel Shaw seems to be the one to give everyone the idea of protesting for equal pay I found nothing online to show that it was really his idea. So we can assume that it was just put that way in the movie for dramatic reasons. The conflict of equal pay would have to be solved by congress but not until the near end of the

With the sun coming down colonel Shaw lined up six hundred of the 54th regiments soldiers on the beach. He prepared them by telling them that he wanted them to show their ability, and that the whole country was going to be talking about what they do that night.
When night hit on July 18, 1863 Colonel Shaw personally led the attack over the wall of Fort Wagner, he was shot in the chest and died trying to climb over the wall of Fort Wagner. That didn’t stop the 54th regiment from continuing the attack.
The Battle of Fort Wagner was a disaster as there were more than expected confederate soldiers inside Fort Wagner. As the 54th regiment fought a battle in which they were outnumbered they were expecting reinforcements to come to equalize the battle but that never happened. In the aftermath of the battle 281 soldiers either were killed, wounded or captured.
The confederate decided to send a message by burying all the bodies of the Africa American soldiers including Colonel Shaw body into a hole and communicating with the union “we have buried [Shaw] with his