First Time Watching GLORY (1989) Movie Reaction 

You had it right the first time. Pronounced Goold

Gotta check out Outlaw King on netflix man. I watched that today and it was amazing.

"Why they gotta be all rough with them?" Consider the drill instructor from Full Metal Jacket. I think the theory is, if they can get everyone in the group to be together in their dislike of the drill instructor...it's something they have in common. Easier to form bonds of brotherhood that way, that're necessary in the worst possible situations that arise during war.

When they buried Robert in that unmarked mass grave they thought they were doing him a disservice and insult but when his parents were offered to have him dug up they refused and said that he died for exactly what he believed in and that it was an honor to know that he was among such a regiment.

Absolutely love this movie! Best movie about the Civil War. You are also going to really like The Color Purple. Some more great acting.

Morgan Freeman got it. And I wish more people would too.

@@KRAFTWERK2K6 A lot of people call morgan freeman "an uncle tom". Its just pure ignorance.

@@nullakjg767 Most of them are probably white teenage girls. I know because one of them called me a racist for making an offensive joke around my mexican friends who thought it was funny themselves.

You shouldn't stop studying Black American history just because February ended. The only reason to have a month dedicated to it in the first place is to reinforce and highlight historically subdued aspects of Black American history. There are still yet large segments of American society that do not wish to acknowledge, admit, and teach these aspects of this particular group of Americans solely based on their skin color.

Absolutely

As hand to hand becomes more and more obsolete that record is put firmly into permanence.

who? John Rawlins is a fictional character.

@@RolandRED but the character is based on a real person

The Rawlins character is based on Sgt. Major William Carney. He survived the battle and the war, later worked for the US Postal Service. He was eventually awarded the Medal of Honor (the first Black American to receive it) for his actions at the Battle of Fort Wagner. He was actually the one that grabbed the colors and rallied the charge after Col. Shaw fell. The actual US military record holder for hand-to-hand combat is another Medal of Honor recipient, Ronald Rosser which was 12 during the Korean War, specifically at the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge. I don't know where you got 60 or credit Carney with that record, but the facts are quite different.

Actually, the regimental sergeant major of the 54th Massachusetts was Frederick Douglass’s son. That’s one of the historical inaccuracies (but emotional) scenes that this movie got wrong.

This always, always brings a tear to my eye

I'm paraphrasing a bit, but his father also said the Confederates sought to dishonor him by burying him with his men, but instead ensured he had the best and most appropriate of honor guard.

wow - that's the best thing I've read all month

@@Rufus6540 Because they really did buried him like that as an insult

@@Rufus6540 Who can you love better than those willing to fight and die by your side?

I thought Shawshank Redemption was Morgan Freeman's favorite role.

@@haroldomiyaura912 heard him say it on more then 1 interview. Of course he has so many great roles it can be like my favorite song, can change from day to day.

@@haroldomiyaura912 The character in Shawshank neither has this range or importance. The character Freeman played in Lean on Me is also a role of more range and importance than Shawshank Redemption

Yes sir. Agreed ( Navy Veteran )

Exactly correct , maintaining, regulation,good order and discipline, between officers and enlisted is the foundation in any Military, ( RET NAVY VET)

Agreed (current soldier, enlisted 2005)

Agreed Veteran and current Soldier (Enlisted 2000)

Yeah, that's something that is missed in modern day viewing of this. What makes the scenes chilling & complex is that whipping (&sometimes execution) was the standard for even white deserters. But the implication for a member of the 54th was so much worse because of their history. So Shaw is stuck between the treating them like every other man was treated (in pay AND punishment) be cause he owes it to them to treat them like MEN & knowing that if he does, sometimes it has horrible implications.

Drill Sergeants are tough because they want the men to survive and get home.

He may appear harsh but there's no way one could turn men into effective fighting unit by being "nicey-nicey".

To forge the sword you must first pound the steel.

Its nothing personal. Drill Sergeants don't take pleasure in treating recruits harshly. Its their duty to turn these boys into men. They cared for these men. I learned that R Lee Ermey would read the Stars and Stripes newspaper during the Vietnam War that would list those soldiers killed in Nam. It sadden him when he saw the names of those he trained in basic.

During the parade scene you could tell how proud he was seeing his men marching. Could have sworn I even saw his eyes watering.

Charleston was an insanely well defended city. That harbor was a death trap.

The best part of that is he was the soldier that was taunting the regiment before their first battle. The tall soldier was actually the writer of the film. He also wrote Tombstone.

My favorite: Sgt Maj Mulcahy's salute during the parade in Boston. "Well done, lads, well done. Give 'em hell. I know you will."

Fun fact, that man who yelled give em hell was ine of the screenwriters

Wow, that is an interesting fact

It was also sort of unnecessary too, as far as military tactics were concerned. South Carolina was the first state to break away from the Union. On top of that it was the first official battle of the Civil War when they fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston. So this whole battle to try to take Charleston was more political than it was a military necessity. They didn't need to do it but wanted to for the optics of taking down the first state that left the union and the first state that attacked the union. Charleston was already under a long blockade. This whole battles was over vanity and pride.

I knew he had been killed i follow-on assaults, but not the backstory behind it.

@@Kosh800 You are not wrong that it was over pride. But a Confederate loss that leads to loss of morale is itself a useful military advantage and helps the war end quicker. Grabbing a politically important objective is valuable in itself. War is just a continuation of politics when all other forms of politics have failed.

If he had properly backed up those three regiments they would have taken before in shortened the civil war by a 6 months

You should be, You got white jesus on your side. If there was really a person name Jesus CHRIST even existed.

@@adoniskennethbrooks3454 Lolwut

Absolutely

Grim_Grenadier Yes! What a great movie..

Great choice. *Great. Choice.*

Great movie

Agreed!

"Glory, Halleluiah." I love it how he says that with such reverence, for the Almighty almost certainly, but for the men as well.

That scene and the one where Denzel's character is being flogged. The music keeps rising and then the instant a tear falls from his eye, it falls into one single haunting note. Just brutal. So many moments in this movie that rip me up.

You ain't the only man...this movie and Schindler's list get me everytime...in this movie it's that ending scene

Man, who's cutting onions around here...

One of the most beautiful and poignant end in film history!

Been proven false that it had anything to do with insult because it simply doesn’t make sense. Mass graves are dug in haste to prevent illness and disease, that’s hinted at the body bearers wearing masks over their face at the end. Instead of having to dig 1,000 individual graves you dig two big ones and put each side in one and cover it, quick, efficient and no thought to it.

I'm right there with you. I love that sequence of scenes so much

Count me in.

It's the best that the white soldier who said "give em hell 54th" was the one who was a racist dick to them earlier.

In the play Henry V, Henry says that the English army will continue fighting in France even after they are killed, by similar means. I didn’t know this about Fort Wagner. Thanks.

WE cannot really understand the level of racism throughout EVEN the abolitionist community at the time. It was necessary that color soldiers fight and die as they did. They proved they were Union soldiers. They proved they were MEN. Otherwise we may STILL be living under Jim Crow today.

May they forever be kept in glory.

@@xhagast ................................................................................... um um Jim crow has nothing to do with this not even close 1865 to 1968 that jim crow was a thing

And they still didn’t want to put blacks in combat all the way up to World War II.

@@1945iwo True! The Black Union soldier -- labeled "United States Colored Troops," or USCT -- even after proving their fighting mettle, still were not used to their fullest advantage by their white officers. Case in point: The Battle of the Crater, July 1864, near Petersburg VA. Black troops trained for weeks to learn the role of the shock troops that would lead the primary attack. They learned the proper approach to the deep pit caused by the expected explosion of tons of gunpowder, the use of scaling ladders, etc. At the last moment, the USCT men were relegated to a secondary role by none other than General Ulysses S. Grant, the overall Union commander. The white troops, hurriedly put on the front lines, failed miserably, suffered terribly (find the movie "Cold Mountain" and watch the first minutes -- that's The Crater). White officers did not wish to put in the USCT as their supposed heavy losses would seem to the general public to be simply slaughter of the brave Black soldiers.

That's really interesting!

That sounds incredibly uncomfortable

That's an amazing story. Really cool and such a random choice. But I bet you're glad you have that memory... Plus what a movie!

Whoever got you this film as a Christmas gift deserves a commendation

A Christmas to remember.....the best kind of Christmas ✝️

I seen this movie in after school detention . I watched over a 3 day period . I came back the 4th day even tho I didnt have detention to watch the ending .This movie really inspired me . 20 years retired military(MA1 USN RET.)

@@frolianmoreno7297 I'm glad you finished the movie. It all leads up to an ending that's not only amazing... But would've been a shame to have missed

It didn't quite happen as you think. The Director secretly ordered the first lash to make contact with a good amount of sting. If you look and see Denzel's reaction it was real because he didn't know it was coming. Every lash after that was movie magic though. Amazing acting job by Denzel.

They still didn’t flog him as hard as they would if it was supposed to be real, a flogging with a cat rips the skin. He wanted no part of that I’m sure nor would they even allow it to happen

@K A ok, sure bud. Calm down tough guy

Everybody dies, not everybody really lives. Shaw lived. And his men.

Correction, Trip doesn't take up the regiment colors he takes up the Union flag. The Regiment Colors is the flag of the 54th Regiment.

Same here. After the bouncing cannon ball a girl in my class left crying. Added to the realism...from then on crying Katie. 1996. Middle school was brutal. No anti bullying measures whatsoever. No supervision it was basically prison with somewhat better education

Hill Street Blues

I first remember Denzel Washington from "St. Elsewhere".

My first exposure to Denzel Washinton was watching "The Book of Eli" in the theaters back in 2010 haha I know it ain't a masterpiece, but I still hold it dearly and Denzel was still a bloody badass in it. Plus it's probably a better adaptation of First of the North Star than the official FOTNS live action film imo

Carbon Copy, St Elsewhere, The Mighty Quinn...

Actually the first major movie he was in was Carbon Copy, and he became even more well known from St. Elsewhere.

Same here. It was unforgettable.

I walked out in tears.

You know that was a "Daddy" scene !

This whole movie is perfectly acted. But I agree... That scene is amazing

When Sergeant Major gets all up in your face, you come to Jesus. Those two brought their A+ game to that scene.

You haven't seen anything yet then.

You should see Adolf Cesar in "A Soldiers Story"

Denzel's break out role was in Soldier's story and he took it to another level when he did Cry Freedom.

I always wanted to understand how the re-enactors knew who would fall and when.

Unfortunately walking streight to gun fire like Napoleon was the norm at the time.

I'm a reenactor, teacher and Civil War historian, and you're quite correct about how rifled muskets should have changed the 18th century tactics, but didn't yet. Along that line, the Union had the capacity to produce cartridge weapons with a magazine (like the Henry Repeating Rifle or the Spencer Rifle) which function not unlike the rifles common by 1900. The main reasons why they didn't were that they would have allowed the men to fire many more rounds of ammunition, and using up all those bullets would have been much more expensive than single shot guns (!!!) On the other extreme, the Confederates had very limited industrial capacity and originally had to rely on outdated smoothbore muskets, which had nowhere near the range of a rifle. If, hypothetically, Union troops had been armed with actual state of the art weapons, the War would never have taken 4 long years. It would have effectively ended with the first Union victory (And the Confederates had no ability to produce the ammo used in the repeating rifles, so just picking up ones from the battlefield would not have helped them)

I saw this in the 3rd grade and I was like "I think we're too young for this deep movie".

I remember watching this in middle school as well. Back then, we had I think 7 classes, with a TV that's hooked up so it can send a signal to all TVs (my guess it's on a specific local channel number and they just changed to that channel). We would watch Glory in each class, they start it sometime into the class (not sure how many minutes into class as this was close to 20 years ago). When the class ended, they would stop/pause the movie then resume it during the next class. I think they did rewind it like 1 to 3 minutes in case people missed the last part (as they were packing up to leave the previous class). It was tougher back then as with 7 classes, the classes were only like 45 to 50 minutes I think. When I got to High School (back between 2004 to 2008), I had block scheduling (4 classes). We would have classes last around 1h 30 something minutes I think (with a 45-minute lunch that was determined by your 3rd class). During those classes, it was much easier to watch a movie as we could finish them usually in 2 class periods.

I was in middle school as well; great movie

I saw the beginning on TV when I was around ten but it was Sunday night and had school the next day. Didn't see the whole thing until middle school.

Really 20,000?

Yes 🙌🏽

If they stayed where they were they would have died laying there. Two things about picking up the standard (flag) 1: the Stars and Stripes must never touch the ground ( back then it declared the units status on the battlefield. They would be considered a destroyed unit, thus may not be reinforced. 2: all soldiers of that unit rally to/ with the standard, it leans forward to declare “Attack, push through”!. The scene didn’t really capture the even very well. It was noted by a survivor that he didn’t get all those wounds at one time but continued to hold the standard for a time. Encouraging the men to assault the ramparts.

That was the scene where I started crying like a little bitch.

Dunno why, never cried though the many times I've seen this movie. But I did feel a strong personal connection to the characters.

Trenches, we still need lines of men but now we all have machine guns...

The invention of the Minie Ball, a simple cone shaped piece of metal, changed warfare history.

Have you seen the monument shown at the end of the movie ?

@C M monument was spray painted by black Americans protesting the same racial injustice those men in the statue died fighting, they'd be ok with it.

@@this.is.a.username I doubt they would be ok with it, same as why they wouldnt be ok with people voting Democrat at the election, Democrats created KKK, segregation and Jim Crow laws. Black Americans in the late 1800s and early 1900s were integrating and setting up businesses and earning money, most didnt go to Liberia even though it was seen as their reparations. Black Americans voted Republican as they freed them from slavery and allowed them to live as free men. I think the fallen would think what is the matter with these people of today, causing vandalism because they are the ones that voted for the racist party.

@@andy150100 I know some people are trying to peddle that narrative but its far from reality. After the passage of the Civil Rights act under LBJ, the South went solidly from Blue to Red. Basically, all those Southern Democrats are now Republicans. Or more to the point, how many KKK guys and white supremacists do you think voted Republican or Libertarian vs Democrat this last election? The Republican party went over to the Jim Crow/voter suppression crowd nearly 60 years ago.

@@varthelm that is the narrative that the Democrat party wants people to believe.

He made it back to the Union line, still carrying the flag. "Boys, I only did my duty; the old flag never touched the ground."

William Harvey Carney who is the one who picked up the flag, received the Congressional Medal of Honor 30 years later for his actions that day after he returned home after the war and was a mailman.

Very few people know his story. One thing is that he was also a preacher at one time. I really wish they had made him a character in this movie it was so important. Another thing they never added is that at one time the regiment came upon a train full of wounded union soldiers but it was unable to move due to damage. Now trains weren't as huge as they are now, but still big enough, the 54th hauled that engine to a place where the train was out of harm's way. They had a boxed set on VHS in the "long ago" and had a whole documentary about the 54th. They need to do a story on the 1st Regiment from Rhode Island, all former slaves who were granted their freedom so that there could enlist and fight the British in the American Revolution. They need their story told too. They fought for an ideal they knew may not be theirs at the time but they knew eventually it would belong to their descendants.

I agree that Carney shod have been acknowledged. It would he been good to add a bit of true history to the movie. But given it is Hollywood, IMO it did a decent job mixing true history with fiction, and come out with a well done and entertaining film.

From what I understand, Carney was amalgamation of characters in the movie. Carney was the first Sergeant Major, Morgan Freeman was promoted to that rank during the movie. Carney lifted the flag during the battle of Fort Wagner which rallied the 54th to kick some ass, as did Denzel Washington (albeit he died doing so). Carney was a preacher, Jihmi Shorts learned to read in the movie because he wanted to read the bible. Jihmi wasn't a preacher but I still feel it was a nod to Carney and his religious beliefs.

RIP James, gone wayyy too soon

James Horner also did the score for Troy

I know him from Stark Trek. He knows how to evoke that feeling of cutting onions. He did it with Glory and yeah even on Deep Impact I felt like someone was cutting onions.

Man, If I were a descendant of RGS, I would also be this amped up. That's awesome.

Yes! Can relate completely. This movie inspired me to be a historian and teacher. Probably my most watched film. It was on the premium cable channels all the time in the early nineties and I remember watching it with my mother time and time again when I was just a kid. Now and for the past 15 years I’ve been able to share it with my high school students. Much of my graduate work was in the history of slavery, abolition, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. I find that no matter what era in American history I teach, it either foreshadows or harkens back to the themes leading up to, experienced in, and resulting from that period; the greatest crossroad in American history.

so you can tell me how the movie is accurate...........just a curiosity couse i love this movie and your answer will not change my feelings

@@andreascala2663 For the most part it is fairly accurate from my knowledge. Small details are wrong though. The 54th wasn’t the only regiment that assaulted the fort, there were other white units like the 48th New York that participated at the same time. The 54th also it get that far into the Fort. They scaled the parapet but did not make it into the heart of the Fort. Also, the first battle that the 54th is engaged in was supposed to be the Battle of Grimball’s Landing. It’s portrayed as a Union victory even though in real life it was a Confederate victory. Sure the 54th repelled the Confederates and saved the 10th Connecticut from destruction but the next day, Union forces left James Island and the Confederates still held it. Also, the end credits say Fort Wagner was never taken. It wasn’t taken in battle but Union forces occupied it in September after the Confederates abandoned it.

"First, they call me 'Crazy Joe', now they call me 'Batman'!"

@@panowa8319 😂🤣😂🤣😂

I had a friend who did tabletop reenactments and variations of battles. They ran the taking of this fort 4 times and got close once but they could never do it. One scenario even had gundams (giant japanese robots). Assuming even forces it is nearly impossible to take.

@@TheLadyLuck523 This battle is almost similar to the Battle of Thermopylae, though in this case, there’s no hidden goat path.

Youre right, the fort was only approachable by a thin strip of land. Looking at that area now, it’s all been overtaken by ocean.

There still are rules against fraternization to this day, although they are much more relaxed than back then.

And it was Shaw's idea for none of the officers to accept no pay until the situation could be sorted out, and it trickled down to the enlisted ranks. It didn't start with the common soldier and spread upwards towards the officers.

There's another film that gets into this in greater depth even though it's in a different context, is "Master and Commander"

@@danh8804 Fantastic film, that one

When he's requesting to lead the attack, he knows already that attacking that fort is suicide. His voice breaks and he's holding back tears. He knows the importance, he knows his men are up to it, but he knows it's a death sentence.

@@mycroft16 I love that scene where he looks at the birds on the beach. The birds represent freedom/agency. The ability to go where you want as a free being, exactly what he and the 54th are fighting for. To me, it's not that he knows he's going to die. It's his realization of his life's purpose and mission as he stares out on the water. He could still turn back, but he doesn't. This is exactly where he's meant to be and what he's meant to do. That's a level of self-actualization that many of us will never achieve, the ultimate glory. It's a fantastic scene.

@@duecansam1248 This!

I didn't realize that had happened. I knew they had them posing like that to imitate the statue. That's sad to hear

Maybe because it depicted a white man leading blacks. It is a common thing. Nowadays blacks don't need white saviors, they can save themselves, but they needed them then. Shaw gave his life fighting by the side of his colored soldiers, what have these "protestors" ever done?

@@xhagast well said

And this just displays your ignorance. The original monument was commissioned by the black community of Boston and was just going to be Shaw on his horse. Shaw’s family insisted that they also include his men because the honor belonged to them as well.

@@paulithurralde8870 How does that show ignorance, did I mention the statues creation? I think not, did blm deface it , a memorial to the almost 600,000 afican american soldiers that fought during the civil war, yes yes they did,

Pvt. Eddie Slovac was executed in WWII for desertion. The only one, but it was still an option at the time.

General Bragg of the confederate army was infamous for executions and lashings of his troops. Some of them didn’t even desert but were simply awol to return home and help with harvesting crops so their families didn’t starve.

@@ffjsb Also used on people who were deemed insubordinate in certain situations.

Shaw only had 2 options at the time, have him shot by firing squad or to be whipped for attempted desertion/leaving his post without permission. Shaw was not being harsh or ignoring his men's needs.

@@gumbomudderx7503 So ironic that a lot of poor people in the south are confederate sympathizers. The southern elite only cared about themselves.

And Same With You

Agree 100%. I saw this movie in the early '90s and even as a white boy in New Zealand with no stake in any of the issues involved, it made a big impression.

@@HelloMellowXVI Yes, I loved your reaction. It was so genuine.

Thank All Of You I Love Doing This

Shelby Foote was our greatest Civil War historian.

It's a emotional roller coaster with this film.

I liked when shaw was shot he said "he didn't let anyone know"

Atlanta was burned to the ground by General Sherman ,and many other places as well....so next to no buildings survived that time. I think maybe one in Atlanta, it was a small mansion, and it was saved by chance, soldiers were talked out of it by the owner who was a widow.... It is now used as a wedding/events destination.

You wouldn't be human if you wouldn't. :'(

30 yrs later me too,,,57 yr old male in L.A...best war movie ever

They had no business fighting at the end. They were already exhausted after the scrimmage that had with the other solders. That sergeant took it upon himself to prove to the colonel he was a Twit. Which means Gay. He was already called that name earlier in the movie.

I know it's been a year, but I this is the first post that I saw mention Napoleonic style warfare. And this is something historians get confused with to. When they say that the tactics were Napoleonic, they don't mean Napoleon Bonaparte. They mean Napoleon III. It's why you see so many Zouave units north and south. There was a French craze in the 1860's. The troops are based off the French soldiers who fought in the Algerian war. So the tactics aren't from 1810. They are from the 1840's. Just something I remember doing research on in college and finding fascinating as it was something even some of my professors didn't know. Its why you don't see US units fighting in columns (A Napoleon Bonaparte Tactic) and in lines. And with skirmishers. And yes the 1840's were still smoothbore musket's, not rifled.

I'm sure he dropped the desertion charge once he realized Tripp was only running off to get shoes and intended to come back. But yes, the whipping scene was pure Hollywood BS.

@@TheStapleGunKid which is ironic because if they'd done it the proper way and showed him having a court-martial, they'd have still arrived at the same conclusion, just without breaking any laws of the time!

@@ignitetheinferno1858 Yeah it was just a case of them wanting to include a whipping scene because that's what we associate with slavery, and they wanted to include an ironic scene of Tripp being whipped because he had been whipped when he was a slave. Of course, that is nonsense on two levels. First, the Army didn't use whipping any more. And second of all, the 54th Massachusetts was comprised almost entirely of life-long free blacks from the North. They had very few, if any, runaway slaves in their ranks.

@@TheStapleGunKid Washington took a very hard stance when it came to white soldier/officer on black soldier/civilian interactions. They at least once completely replace the officer corps of refugee camps that exploited the ex-slave refugees And firing officers who led their troops poorly in the field. Shaw, being a staunch abolitionist, _never_ would have flogged his men, even if they had been freeman and the punishment had been still lawful. With that said, I do appreciate artistically what they were trying to do with the scene.

@@ignitetheinferno1858 quite - everything about the scene is brilliantly portrayed, just not the accuracy

Sorry but no. I really like this movie but the best one hands down is Gettysburg .

Lincoln starring Daniel Day Lewis was pretty decent.

Your forgetting gods and generals

To me it is because some of the Dialogue in this film was actually from Colonel Shaw personal memoirs.

What about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter?

My understanding, which is very limited, is that this used to be done because it was considered honorable. Where you saw your opponent directly in front of you and knew exactly what you were dealing with, and the opponent granted you the same courtesy. But then they soon came to realize that honor equated to suicide, because it doesn't do much good when the opponent is no longer playing by the same rules.

@@BurningFreesias that was part of it. But these tactics also had a long history in European militaries dating back to the Napoleonic Wars. The thing was, military technology had advanced since then. Rifles and artillery were much more accurate during the Civil War. When outdated tactics meet modern weapons, it’s a massacre.

Generals were always fighting with the lessons learned from the last war. West Point had institutionalized battlefield tactics handed down from the effective tactics of the Napoleonic Wars. Such massing of men was necessary due to the inaccuracy of the musket used during that period. It fired a spherical round through a smooth bore barrel. Effective accuracy was about 100-yards. Beyond that it was a gamble if aimed fire would hit its intended target since there was no stabilizing spin on the ball. Hence, massed fire from soldiers packed close together was more of an effected use of such a weapon. The tactic was to closely approach the enemy, fire a volley or two, and then charge in with a high dependency on the bayonet. However, by the time of the War Between the States, the miniè ball had been introduced into warfare. A conical shaped bullet, fired through a barrel that had spiral grooves (rifling) and provided a better seal to keep the expanding gas behind the round, improved the accuracy out to 300-400 yards. Unfortunately, the use of massed ranks learned from an earlier time was still in use. As the war progressed the belligerents realized that firing from a covered position such as walls, makeshift barriers, and trenches was a reaction to the more deadlier effect of the miniè ball.

1. It didn't have anything to do with honor. It had to do with command and control. How can I command and control my soldiers without radios? Tight formations allow me to get my large command in the same place at the same time. Because even trumpets and drums are hard to do if they aren't all together. 2. Line formations also allow me to change from a marching order to a fighting order, to skirmishing in a lot less time. If cavalry arrive, I can go into a square formation if needed. 3. In the 1840's the French went to war in Algeria. These were fought partially with Native troops of the region. This created the Zouaves, and in the 1850s and then 1860's the US went French crazy. It's why so many US and even Confederate units were Zouaves early in the war. This also explains the next point. 4. When people talk about Napoleonic tactics, they aren't talking about Napoleon Bonaparte in the 1810's. If that was the case, you would see attacking in columns and square formations with cavalry being used for breaking enemy lines. I think a Union regiment attacked in columns ONCE during the entire war. The Napoleonic tactics we are talking about in the Civil War is based on Napoleon III tactics. This means that the battles of the Civil War aren't based off 1815, but 1845. This is why you see linear combat without columns attacking, you don't see shock use of cavalry. And even the Napoleon Cannon is named after Napoleon the III, not his uncle. While out of date, the tactics aren't as out of date as people think. And skirmishing and other tactics are more develops. This is why sharpshooter regiments are so important in these battles. 5. The drop off of a rifled musket was actually more than a musket. Aiming it you had to use the proper sights to get it to the mythical aiming from before. It could be more accurate, but when you crunch the numbers, it was only slightly more accurate. In fact, if you look at the numbers of the accuracy in combat of the Mexican American War it's very close to the rifled musket, and those were smoothbore. (About 0.82% vs 1.0%) 6. A good number of men in both militaries used smoothbore muskets from the start to the end of the war. Depending on their funding. Universal ammo never really got implemented.

That was a terrible film, that deservedly bombed at the box office. Tuskegee Airman was much better. It did a better job telling the story of black pilots in WW2 despite having a much smaller budget. Red Tails is a great example about how it takes more then an inspiring story concept to make a good movie.

But that is what makes it a drama. Drama is meant to make you cry. It isn't easy to make you laugh but it is HARD to make you cry.

Yeah Mine Too But Like I Said I Fell Asleep Lml, But 8th Grade History Was The Best.

@@HelloMellowXVI I didn’t fall asleep, haha. I was totally riveted. I remember crying quietly at the end so no one in the class could hear me.

@@chastitykolb9643 Had An Issue Of Falling Asleep In Class Because They Would Have The AC Blasting Non Stop Lmao And I Had A Terrible Sleep Pattern

Lol we watched it our junior year of high school along with Saving Private Ryan, Ride With The Devil, Gettysburg, I miss history class it was the one thing in school I looked forward to besides sneaking to the bathroom with my friends to dip Copenhagen and Skoal.

I always tell others that this movie is the black version of "American Graffiti." I always amuse myself by asking new friends who have seen this movie, which of the four black soldiers that they associate me with, and I'm always intrigued by their answers.

@@neilgriffiths6427 that last quote was from the most popular american socialist of the 20th century. Im not sure why you'd think marxists would disagree with what he said.