Wayyy to go bottomfeeding tard idiots. Your ilk decimated and desecrated statues/murals at the Boston Common honoring one of the most highly esteemed units in American history, and it was a Union Army regiment, not a confederate unit- not that you can tell the difference because you learned all you know about American history from playing video games. The statue stood/still stands although defaced on the very spot where they enlisted. 600 men, 250 killed their first day in combat- then more later- including the colonel and buried together in a mass grave. Although it is well known that the civil war was not just about slavery, it was for some. This was a unit 100% made up of abolitionists who had been recruited by an abolitionist at Harvard, who, as I said above was killed and buried with his men. Black History Month: 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment FEBRUARY 07, 2016 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment • One of the first official African-American units to serve in the US Civil War. • Served in spite of the 1863 Confederate Congress Proclamation which put enlisted men and officers under a death sentence if captured. • Refused to be paid less than the $14 per month afforded to white soldiers. • The regiment's Sergeant William Harvey Carney became the first African-American to receive the Medal of Honor. Growing up in Charleston, I was exposed to heaps of pre and post Civil War history. In my school I could be found mining the treasures of the library in search of biographies of soldiers who fought on both sides. Yet it never occurred to me that African Americans had fought in the Civil War, too. That is, until the movie “Glory” came out in 1989. I marked the release date on my calendar and waited about six months. At twelve years old, I was one of the first in line at the Ultravision Movie Theater. Today I'm fairly certain the legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment has had a greater impact on me than all of my heroes combined. I’ve read books about them, memorized every line from the movie, purchased the soundtrack by James Horner, visited historic sites where the 54th is honored, written reports on Colonel Robert Shaw, and spent hundreds of hours reflecting on their contribution to our country. Even today when I watch the movie (and I watch it often), I’m stirred by Private Jupiter Sharts’ poignant prayer before the assault on Fort Wagner: “Tomorrow we goes into battle. So Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand, and the Good Book in the other. So that if I may die at the muzzle of the rifle, on water, or on land, I may know that you… blessed Jesus almighty are with me... and I have no fear.” In a time when black men were widely thought incapable of serving honorably, this fighting force battled bravely for the preservation of the Union and for their own freedom from slavery. And one hundred forty years after their contribution, they’d have had no idea how their actions and examples would help to shape the identity of one little boy in Charleston, just a few miles away from where many of them died…as free men. "I know not where, in all of human history, to any given thousand men in arms there has been committed a work at once so proud, so precious, so full of hope and glory."(Massachusetts Governor John Andrew)
“Glory” was a damn good movie! The end when they charge the fort still gets me riled up and I’ve seen it 100x.