Glory

[praying aloud] 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...die on water, or on land, I may know that you blessed Jesus almighty are with me...and I have no fear. Amen.

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Give'em hell 54th!

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Army Surgeon: Heard the latest? Captain Robert G. Shaw: What's that? Army Surgeon: Well, I heard it from a friend who's a dispatch rider, who got it from a friend of his who's one of Stanton's clerks in the War Office. He says Lincoln is gonna issue an Emancipation Proclamation. Gonna free the slaves. Captain Robert G. Shaw: What? Army Surgeon: Well, maybe not the ones in the border states or somethin', I don't know, but he's gonna free some of 'em, anyway. Captain Robert G. Shaw: My God. Army Surgeon: Yeah, he said he would have done it sooner, only he was waiting on a big victory, which is, I guess what this is.

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Francis Shaw: Robert. Governor Andrew, you know my son, Robert. Governor John Andrew: [shakes Robert's hand] Yes, good to see you again, Robert. Captain Robert G. Shaw: Governor Andrew. Francis Shaw: [gestures to Douglass] Robert, have you met Frederick Douglass? Captain Robert G. Shaw: Mr. Douglass. Governor John Andrew: I understand you were Antietam. Captain Robert G. Shaw: Yes. Governor John Andrew: A great and a terrible day. Well, I could use your help, Robert. Francis Shaw: The governor is proposing to raise a regiment of negro soldiers. Governor John Andrew: No, no, no, it was not just my idea. Mr. Douglass and some of us... Frederick Douglass: We will offer pride and dignity to those who have known only degradation. Sarah Shaw: Colored soldiers, Robert. Just think of it. Captain Robert G. Shaw: Wonderful. Governor John Andrew: I've submitted your name, Robert, to be commissioned colonel of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. Captain Robert G. Shaw: Thank you, governor, that's...I

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Trip: Wait, no. That's my space, nigger. I sleep better close by the door. Thomas Searles: Well, if you don't mind, I'd prefer a space where there's more sufficient reading light. Trip: Oh, I like it when niggers talk good as white folk! Thomas Searles: I'd be happy to teach you. It would be my pleasure. Trip: Hey, listen here, snowflake, I ain't got nothin' to learn from no house nigger, you hear? Thomas Searles: I am a free man, as was my father before me. Trip: Oh, you free, huh? Then move your free black ass out my space, before I have to bust it up!

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Sergeant Mulcahy: For God's sake, man! Do you not know your right from your left? Jupiter Sharts: [stammers] N-No, sir. Sergeant Mulcahy: How many here do not know right from left? [several men raise their hands] Jesus, have pity. [slaps Sharts on the chest] This is your front! [slaps him on the back] This is your rear! [stomps on Sharts' right foot] This is your right! And this- [Sharts raises his left foot as Mulcahy is about to stomp on it] Now you're learning, boy-o. Company! Forward, march!

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