matthew mckeon
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Wicked Spring was great, uniform/equipage was good, battle scenes good, but the story line was a bit hard to believe.
AUG351 is correct about the "Crater" battle scene in Cold Mountain, though I don't know of the Yanks lying down before the explosion, and throwing bayonet fixed Enfields like spears into the bunched up Yanks.
Glory just about tops them all, take away the scenes of issuing Enfields with serial numbers, trouble with Quartermaster folk, and the flogging of Denzel Washington.
Kevin Dally
Agree with the flogging and the serial numbers on the rifles. However other black regiments(without the personal attention of Gov. Andrew) experienced problems with the quartermaster department getting proper and sufficient equipment.
Funny thing about Glory is that nearly all the racism inflicted on the regiment is done by the Union side, the script even including incidents like the flogging which didn't happen. The Confederates are practically faceless. Hard fighting and tough opponents of course, but that's it. An order by Davis condemning POWs to slavery and their officers to hang is read out, but we never see such actions carried out.