... of a man's ability to think for himself as well as follow order. The battles were noisy; full of shouts and cheers, commands and oaths, and of course the sounds of rifles and cannons. After the battle was over, the true horror of the war was revealed as the clouds of smoke cleared and thousands of men lay dead on the field ... ...
... a colonel in the first Mississippi Rifle Regiment. In June 1846 he resigned from Congress to take command in New Orleans. He was able to equip his soldiers with the latest rifles and personally drilled them ensuring every soldier knew how to use this new rifle. In September of 1846 they took part in a charge at Monterey and with the aid of ... ...
... totally different. In Glory, the Black troops were very uneducated. The troops did not know their left from their right, and when it came time to start training with the rifles, the troops were horseplaying with the guns. The black men in the Civil War were mostly slaves with only manual laboring skills, but the black cadets in the Tuskegee Airmen ... ...
