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GLORY - ABRAHAM LINCOLN FEELINGS ON SLAVERY IN THE BEGINNING 1.) OPPOSED SLAVERY AND SAID IT WAS EVIL 2.) OPPOSED THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY HOWEVER -LINCOLN STATES: 1. HE REALIZES IT WAS A NECESSITY FOR THE SOUTHERN ECONOMY 2.) HAD NO INTENTION OF DISTURBING SLAVERY IN THE SLAVE STATES 3.) HE BELIEVED WHITES WERE SUOERIOR TO BLACKS A.) WAS NOT IN FAVOR OF POLITICAL OR SOCIAL EQUALITY OF WHITES AND BLACKS B.) WAS NOT IN FAVOR OF BLACKS VOTING, BEING JURORS, LETTING THEM HOLD OFFICE OR INTERMARRY LINCOLN CHANGES VIEW ON SLAVERY - AFTER ELECTED IN 1860 LINCOLN BEGINS TO REALIZE 1.) THAT U.S. COULD NEVER SURVIVE HALF SLAVE AND HALF FREE A.) SOUTHERN BELIEFS SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO JEAPORIZE NATION AND EQUALITY OF MEN 2.) HOUSE DIVIDED SPEECH WAR BEGINS -SOUTH CAROLINA SECEDES FIRST AFTER LINCOLN’S ELECTION DEC 20 1860 1.) BY FEB 6 DEEP SOUTHERN STATES SECEDE A.) MISS, FL , ALA, GEORGIA, LOUISANA ANF TEXAS THEY CREATE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA 1.) ELECT JEFFERSON DAVIS PRESIDENT FIRST SHOTS FORT SUMTER SOUTH CAROLINA 1. NORTH WOULD EVENTUALLY SURRENDER THE FORT IN THE BEGINNING OF WAR -LINCOLN DIDN’T WANT BLACKS TO SERVE B/C HE THOUGHT IT WOULD SEND THE BORDER STATES TO THE SOUTH 1.) SLAVERY WAS NOT A DIRECT CONCERN FOR LINCOLN HE JUST WANTED TO SAVE THE UNION 2.) HORACE GREELY LETTER FIRST 2 YRS OF WAR - UNION WAS STRUGGLING LOSING BATTLE AFTER BATTLE UNTIL ANTIETAM VICTORY IN SEPT 1862 1.) LINCOLN WAS WAITING FOR SOME SUCCESS TO ISSUE HIS: EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION- FREES ALL SLAVES 1.) INTRODUCED IN SEPT 1862 AND GAVE SOUTHERN STATES UNTIL JAN 1 1863 TO REJOIN THE UNION SO -ON JAN 1 1863 ALL SLAVE STATES WERE DECLARED FREE AND THESE BLACK MEN COULD SERVE IN THE MILITARY 1.) THIS PROCLAMATION WOULD OFFICIALLY TIE SLAVERY TO THE WAR 2.) 200,000 BLACK MEN WOULD SERVE IN MILITARY, UNION DESPERATELY NEEDED SOLDIERS A,) THEY WOULD FORM ALL BLACK REGIMENTS B/C NORTHERN WHITES DIDN’T WANT TO SERVE WITH THEM TH 54 MASSACHUSETTS - CREATED IN FEB 1863 WAS LED BY -ROBERT GOIULD SHAW 1.) CAME FROM AN ELITE FAMILY 2.) SHAW SERVED NEARLY 2 YRS BEFORE TAKING OVER THE 54TH A.) WAS WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF ANTIETNAM (THIS IS BEGINNING OF THE MOVIE) -MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR JOHN ANDREW SENDS WORD TO SHAW’S FATHER ASKING HIM TO TAKE COMMAND OF THE 54TH 1.) ANDREW AND FREDRICK DOUGLAS WOULD HELP CREATE THE 54TH 2.) DOUGLAS HAD 2 SONS THAT WOULD SERVE IN THE 54TH 3.) SHAW WOULD AT FIRST DECLINE OFFER AT FIRST A.) WOULD EVENTUALLY ACCEPT B/C OF DUTY TOWARDS THE U.S. SO -SHAW BEGINS TRAINING OF HIS MEN OF 1000 1.) MOST OF 54TH CONSISTED OF FREE BORN BLACKMEN 2.) 54TH WAS SEGREGATED FROM WHITE REGIMENTS DISCRIMINATION 1.) THEY WERE OUTFITTED WITH THE POOREST EQUIPMENT AND AS LITTLE SUPPLIES AS NECESSARY 2.) BLACK REGIMENTS WERE ASSIGNED TO LABOR TASKS AND NOT USUALLY TO BATTLE A.) WHEN PLACED IN BATTLE THEY WERE PUT IN THE MOST DANGEROUS POSITIONS SO WHITES WEREN’T PUT AT RISK 3.) BLACK SOLDIERS ONLY RECEIVED $7 A MONTH COMPARED T0 WHITES $13 A MONTH A.) SHAW WINS RESPECT OF HIS MEN BY REFUSING PAY ALSO WHEN THE BLACK SOLDIERS GET ANGRY 4.) BLACK REGIMENTS WERE GIVEN DARK BLUE UNIFORMS INSTEAD OF LIGHT BLUE UNIFORMS THAT WHITE SOLDIERS WEAR A.) DARK UNIFORMS WERE RESERVED FOR BLACKS DOING LABOR SUPPORT FOR ARMY B.) SHAW DEMANDED FROM COMMAND THAT THE 54TH BE GIVEN THE LIGHT BLUE UNIFORMS LIKE WHITE SOLDIERS WHAT AT RISK - IF CAPTURED: 1.) BLACKS WOULD BE RETURNED TO SLAVERY OR EXECUTED ON SITE 2.) WHITE OFFICERS- ALL WOULD BE EXECUTED BEST EXAMPLE OF THIS FORT PILLOW MASSACRE – APR 12 1864- TENNESSEE ALONG MISS. RIVER 1.) FORT WAS DEFENDED BY 600 MEN AND ½ OF THEM WERE BLACK SOLDIERS 2.) SOUTH WAS LED BY GENERAL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST SOUTH ATTACKS -FORT WOULD SURRENDER 1.) SOLDIERS WOULD SURRENDER AND THROW DOWN THEIR WEAPONS A.) CONFEDERATES SHOT AND BAYONETED UNION SOLDIERS 1.) YELLING NO QUARTER 2.) BLACK SOLDIERS DROPPED TO KNEES BEGGING FOR MERCYTHEY WERE STOOD UP AND SHOT A.) OUT OF 400 BLACK SOLDIERS ONLY 20 SURVIVED B.) 300 WERE EXECUTED -THE 54TH’S TRAINING BRGAN AT CAMP MEIGS ON MAY 13,1863 IN MASSACHUSETTS THEN TH THE 54 WAS ORDERED TO HILTON HEAD ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA ON MAY 18, 1863 1.) PREPARING FOR ATTACK ON CHARLESTON - 54TH GOES ON PATROL WITH JAMES MONTGOMERY’S REGIMENT WHICH WAS ANOTHER BLACK REGIMENT. A.0 SHAW BY ORDER WAS FORCED TO LOOT AND BURN DOWN THE TOWN OF DARIEN GEORGIA 1.) SHAW DID IT UNDER PROTEST A.) WAS AFRAID HE WOULD LOSE HIS REGIMENT TO MONTGOMERY IF HE DISOBEYED AFTER - SHAW DEMANDED TO HIS COMMANDER TO PUT THE 54TH INTO ACTION WHICH THEY DID SO - 54TH WILL SEE THEIR FIRST BATTLE ACTION AT JAMES ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA JULY 1863 1.) COMPANY WAS CITED FOR BRAVERY THEN TH - THE 54 WAS ENT TO MORRIS ISLAND AND PREPARE FOR THE ASSAULT ON FORT WAGNER 1.) FORT WAS CRITICAL IN PROTCTING CHARLESTON BATTLE OF FORT WAGNER (JULY 18, 1863) PLAN OF ATTACK: 1.) DIRECT ASSAULT OF FORT WAGNER WITH 3 WAVES OF SOLDIERS UP THE NARROW STRIP OF BEACH- OCEAN ON 1 SIDE AND MARSH ON THE OTHER - GENERAL GEORGE STRONG WAS COMMANDER OF UNION TROOPS AT FORT WAGNER 1.) THE 54TH WAS OFFERED TO LEAD THE 1ST WAVE OF ATTACK A.) SHAW ACCEPTED THE OFFER B.) QUESTION WAS, WERE THEY PUT THERE B/C THEY WERE EXPENDABLE BEFORE ATTACK - GEORGE STRONG ADDRESSES 54TH AND ASKED IF THE FLAG BEARER FALLS WHO WILL PICK IT UP 1.) SHAW STATES HE WILL ATTACK BEGINS 3:00PM- TOOK HEAVY CASUALITIES B/C HOW NARROW BEACH WAS 1.) FALL INTO THE SAND DUNES FOR COVER 7:45PM DUSK- 54TH MAKES FINAL PUSH ON FORT 1.) SHAW AND 54TH WOULD REACH TOP OF FORT HOWEVER WITH SHAW CARRY FLAG (UNIT COLORS) WOULD BE SHOY AND KILLED IN THIS FINALLY ATTACK A.) 54TH WOULD BE STOPPED AND FORCED BACK - PRIVATE WILLIAM CARNEY WOULD PICK UP COLORS AFTER SHAWS DEATH AND RETURN THEM OFF THE BATTLEFIELD 1.) WAS SHOT TWICE 2.) WOULD WIN THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR - OTHER WAVES AFTER 54TH CHARGE WOULD FAIL - AFTER BATTLE THE BODIES OF 54TH WAS PUT IN MASS GRAVES ALONG WITH SHAWS BODY 1.) SOUTH WOULDN’T RETURN SHAW’S BODY WHICH WAS CUSTOM FOR OFFICERS -CASUALITIESUNION- 1500 CONFEDERATES- 174 -54TH- 250 MEN KILLED OUT OF 600 PROBLEMS WITH MOVIE 1.) SHAW OFFERED COMMAND OF 54TH THRU HIS FATHER NOT IN PERSON 2.) SHAW DECLINED JOB AT FIRST 3.) MOVIE GAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT THE 54TH MEN WERE ALL EX SLAVES- NOT TRUE- 80% WERE FREE MEN 4.) SHAW DOESN’T MAKE SPEECH ON BEEACH BEFORE THE ATTACK, IT WAS GEN DTRONG 5.) SHAW DIDN’T BELIEVE IN PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT, HE WOULDN’T WHIP THEM 6.) 54TH DID REFUSE PAYMENT, BUT DIDN’T RIP UP CHECKS LIKE IN MOVIE 7.) ATTACK ON FORT WAGNER HAPPENED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION