Glory
This film tells the story of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Regiment, the first regular army regiment of black soldiers commissioned during the Civil War. At the beginning of the war, most people believed that blacks could not be disciplined to make good soldiers in a modern war and that they would run when fired upon or attacked. Colonel Shaw, a white abolitionist, and hundreds of soldiers in his regiment, all black volunteers, gave their lives to prove that black men could fight as well as whites. In the beginning of the movie, Shaw returns home to Massachusetts after a horrific battle. He is then offered a position as a Colonel for a
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Approximate Word count = 461
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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