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re: Oh My Loooorrrddd, Lord, Lord, Looooord
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:34 pm to GetCocky11
Posted on 2/12/18 at 11:34 pm to GetCocky11
Interesting segue into my ancestry. My great great grandfather was a 2nd Lt in the 2nd Charleston Battalion and was at Battery Wagner when the 54th made the assault. After the battle, Shaw was stripped of his clothes and buried with the other perished of the 54th. My grandfather purchased Shaws silk sash shortly after the battle and He had possession of it for 10 years until he returned it to Robert Shaws family in Mass..
[Another act of honor, long after the Civil War, is also noted here. Alan Wesley Muckenfuss was a defender at Fort Wagner. He had left his wife, children, and job as a teacher, to enlist in the army just after South Carolina's Secession. Due to distinguished service, Muckenfuss was promoted to Lieutenant prior to the important battle at Fort Wagner. Years after the war, Muckenfuss was First Officer of the United Confederate Veterans Chapter in Charleston. According to A Brave Black Regiment, by Luis F. Emilio, the highest ranking officer in the Mass 54th after the attack on Fort Wagner: "[Shaw's] silk sash was purchased in Battery Wagner from a private soldier, by A.W. Muckenfuss, a Confederate Officer, who, many years after, generously sent it North to Mr. S.C. Gilbert of Boston, for restoration to the Shaw family." The sash was presumably returned to Robert Gould Shaw's widow, whom never re-married.
Boston was an incubator for the abolitionist movement in the first half of the 19th century. The Museum of African American History is on Beacon Hill in the old African Meeting House. In 1832, William Lloyd Garrison established the New England Anti-Slavery Society there.]
[Another act of honor, long after the Civil War, is also noted here. Alan Wesley Muckenfuss was a defender at Fort Wagner. He had left his wife, children, and job as a teacher, to enlist in the army just after South Carolina's Secession. Due to distinguished service, Muckenfuss was promoted to Lieutenant prior to the important battle at Fort Wagner. Years after the war, Muckenfuss was First Officer of the United Confederate Veterans Chapter in Charleston. According to A Brave Black Regiment, by Luis F. Emilio, the highest ranking officer in the Mass 54th after the attack on Fort Wagner: "[Shaw's] silk sash was purchased in Battery Wagner from a private soldier, by A.W. Muckenfuss, a Confederate Officer, who, many years after, generously sent it North to Mr. S.C. Gilbert of Boston, for restoration to the Shaw family." The sash was presumably returned to Robert Gould Shaw's widow, whom never re-married.
Boston was an incubator for the abolitionist movement in the first half of the 19th century. The Museum of African American History is on Beacon Hill in the old African Meeting House. In 1832, William Lloyd Garrison established the New England Anti-Slavery Society there.]
Posted on 2/13/18 at 4:07 am to BugAC
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Can’t the OP just say, “Glory is a great movie”. Not “Glory is the best civil war movie ever and if you downvote me it must be because you are racist”?
Wtf? I said neither. I posted a damn gif.
I honestly just wanted to bring up a great movie in a way other than "This is a great movie". I really didn't expect the uproar.
And if you haven't seen the movie, the thread title shouldn't even make sense to you.
This post was edited on 2/13/18 at 4:11 am
Posted on 2/13/18 at 7:14 am to RollTide1987
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Shenandoah isn't really a war film though. It's more Cold Mountain than it is Glory. It takes place almost entirely on the home front
I get what you’re saying but was there really a distinction between the home front and the front lines in Virginia during the war? I don’t think so
Posted on 2/13/18 at 8:05 am to GetCocky11
I loathe virtue signaling in all its vile forms
There is none in this thread
There is, however, virtue in reminding us all of a great great movie. Its one of those you never forget the feeling the first time you saw it.
If not the best civil war movie (Im not expert enough to make that declaration), it is most certainly well seated in the conversation.
My ancestors fought on the other side....has nothing to do with how this movie made me feel.
There is none in this thread
There is, however, virtue in reminding us all of a great great movie. Its one of those you never forget the feeling the first time you saw it.
If not the best civil war movie (Im not expert enough to make that declaration), it is most certainly well seated in the conversation.
My ancestors fought on the other side....has nothing to do with how this movie made me feel.
Posted on 2/13/18 at 11:58 am to BugAC
I know I'm not the only one but I never thought of Glory as a "black" movie, it's so well done and well acted you figure about black and white, which is what we are all trying to do right?
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