Glory Response

I think that the movie "Glory" has a pretty accurate representation of life for colored regiments in the Civil War. There are, of course, a few dramatizations like the epicness of the battles and the inspiring speeches of the African Americans during the spiritual, but  dramatizations  are in almost all movies. The 54th regiment's daily life, including injuries and racism, was depicted well in the movie. The conditions of the hospitals at the time was authentically portrayed when Shaw was getting treated. However, I was surprised by the way that the people fought wars. I found many of their decisions odd, and I wondered why they did it. For example, at about the beginning of the movie, Shaw and the rest of the Union army clumped together in a tight group and slowly marched in plain sight towards their enemy. First of all, their concentration allowed the Southerners to take out more Northerners with each cannonball, second of all, the North army with their slow movement was like a bunch of sitting ducks waiting to get shot, and third, they sought no shelter and allowed the enemy a clear shot of them.