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The video is separated in to three parts: about the regiment and the battle that takes place, how the regiment becomes inspirations, and how Lincoln was deeply affected and white people in the North changed their minds about AAs.
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This section was about the regiment. They were the first AA regiment and grew to have 600 soldiers. The battle that takes places is at Fort Wagner. During the battle, half the men from the regiment and their Colonel had died, but they persisted to take down the Confederates and succeeded doing so.
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This part of the video was how one man in the regiment became a inspiration by doing the most simple and honoring act, holding the flag up after the flag bearer died.  Afterwards the soldier said to his men, "Boys, the ole flag never touched the ground." From that moment onward, he became an inspiration to his men, AAs in the nation, and the nation as whole.
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This section features how the regiment changed how AAs were going to be treated. First, it states how Lincoln was deeply affected by the commitment the regiment showed during the war and the battle featured and all AA soldiers. Another feature of this section is that the regiment influenced whites in the North to see AAs in military service differently. They were influenced to see that AAs were capable of taking on military service.
Overall, the video has a theme commitment in inspiration. These men were committed to their causes. They stuck around even when they saw death all around them. They inspired America by holding up the flag during a battle. They inspired other AAs by showing that they can do what white people say they can't. Both of these themes supports our argument and Lincoln's argument to an extent. They support them by showing that AAs can do military service and that a race barrier would limit them from protecting our country and fighting for what is right.

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From the beginning of the Civil War, President Lincoln argued that the Union forces were not fighting to end slavery but to prevent the disintegration of the United States. For abolitionists, however, ending slavery was the reason for the war, and they argued that black people should be able to join the fight for their freedom. However, African Americans were not allowed to serve as soldiers in the Union Army until January 1, 1863. On that day, the Emancipation Proclamation decreed that "such persons [that is, African-American men] of suitable condition, will be received into the armed services of the United States."

The 54th Massachusetts

Early in February 1863, the abolitionist Governor John A. Andrew of Massachusetts issued the Civil War's first call for black soldiers. Massachusetts did not have many African-American residents, but by the time 54th Infantry regiment headed off to training camp two weeks later more than 1,000 men had volunteered. Many came from other states, such as New York, Indiana and Ohio; some even came from Canada. One-quarter of the volunteers came from slave states and the Caribbean. Fathers and sons (some as young as 16) enlisted together. The most famous enlistees were Charles and Lewis Douglass, two sons of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

To lead the 54th Massachusetts, Governor Andrew chose a young white officer named Robert Gould Shaw. Shaw's parents were wealthy and prominent abolitionist activists. Shaw himself had dropped out of Harvard to join the Union Army and had been injured in the Battle of Antietam. He was just 25 years old.

"So Full of Hope and Glory"

At nine o'clock on the morning on May 28, 1863, the 54th's 1,007 black soldiers and 37 white officers gathered in the Boston Common and prepared to head to the battlefields of the South. They did so in spite of an announcement by the Confederate Congress that every captured black soldier would be sold into slavery and every white officer in command of black troops would be executed. Cheering well-wishers, including the anti-slavery advocates William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and Frederick Douglass, lined Boston's streets. "I know not," Governor Andrew said at the close of the parade, "where in all human history to any given thousand men in arms there has been committed a work at once so proud, so precious, so full of hope and glory as the work committed to you." That evening, the 54th Infantry boarded a transport ship bound for Charleston.

Tragedy at Fort Wagner

Colonel Shaw and his troops landed at Hilton Head on June 3. The next week, they were forced by Shaw's superiors to participate in a particularly destructive raid on the town of Darien, Georgia. The colonel was furious: His troops had come South to fight for freedom and justice, he argued, not to destroy undefended towns with no military significance. He wrote to General George Strong and asked if the 54th might lead the next Union charge on the battlefield.

Even as they fought to end slavery in the Confederacy, the African-American soldiers of the 54th were fighting against another injustice as well. The U.S. Army paid black soldiers $10 a week; white soldiers got $3 more. To protest against this insult, the entire regiment-soldiers and officers alike-refused to accept their wages until black and white soldiers earned equal pay for equal work. This did not happen until the war was almost over.

On July 18, 1863, the 54th Massachusetts prepared to storm Fort Wagner, which guarded the Port of Charleston. At dusk, Shaw gathered 600 of his men on a narrow strip of sand just outside Wagner's fortified walls and readied them for action. "I want you to prove yourselves," he said. "The eyes of thousands will look on what you do tonight."

As night fell, Shaw led his men over the walls of the fort. (This was unusual; typically, officers followed their soldiers into battle.) Unfortunately, the Union generals had miscalculated: 1,700 Confederate soldiers waited inside the fort, ready for battle. The men of the 54th were outgunned and outnumbered. Two hundred and eighty one of the 600 charging soldiers were killed, wounded or captured. Shaw himself was shot in the chest on his way over the wall and died instantly.

To show their contempt for the soldiers of the 54th, the Confederates dumped all of their bodies in a single unmarked trench and cabled Union leaders that "we have buried [Shaw] with his niggers." The Southerners expected that this would be such an insult that white officers would no longer be willing to fight with black troops. In fact, the opposite was true: Shaw's parents replied that there could be "no holier place" to be buried than "surrounded by...brave and devoted soldiers."

The 54th lost the battle at Fort Wagner, but they did a great deal of damage there. Confederate troops abandoned the fort soon afterward. For the next two years, the regiment participated in a series of successful siege operations in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The 54th Massachusetts returned to Boston in September 1865.

"The Pride, Courage and Devotion of the Patriot Soldier"

On Memorial Day 1897, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens unveiled a memorial to the 54th Massachusetts at the same spot on the Boston Common where the regiment had begun its march to war 34 years before. The statue, a three-dimensional bronze frieze, depicts Robert Gould Shaw and the men of the 54th as they marched heroically off to war. Above them floats an angel holding an olive branch, a symbol of peace, and a bouquet of poppies, a symbol of remembrance. The Shaw Memorial still stands today.

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From the beginning of the Civil War, President Lincoln argued that the Union forces were not fighting to end slavery but to prevent the disintegration of the United States. For abolitionists, however, ending slavery was the reason for the war, and they argued that black people should be able to join the fight for their freedom.

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As you can see in the picture below, the army, specifically the Signal Corps, is trying to recruit more members. This explains our argument because this poster was in relation to allowing blacks in now. As you can see all it is asking for is to have the certain requirements needed to be involved in the civil duties the Signal Cops does. Nothing to do with race like how it should be. Race doesn't mean you are not a good electrician, mechanic, etc. This is how all of the branches of the army later became. Nothing to do with race it was either you were fit for the army or not. Lincoln should have told every branch of the army that the criteria to be allowed to help in war should be there intelligence and physical abilities allowing them to contribute in a way that would make the U.S proud. Again we do not blame General Hazen for thinking this way, this was how people in the U.S were brought up to think and act. With the growing changes happening in the U.S this was a necessary step in the right direction to allow blacks to help in any branch of the Army. This allows black people to fight for their country next to fellow Americans willing to die for American citizens and their rights Blacks even wanting to fight for what little rights they had showed that they deserved equality in a current unequal society. Combining the two races would ease equality into common American society.

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In the article posted, it goes into depth about a situation in which the color barrier was in question during the war. W. Hallett Greene was a black man who was fully capable of joining the Signal Corps. As you may have already read Greene graduated at the top of his class from the College of the City of New-York and passed every admission test to get into the Corps. He was deserving of this opportunity at hand and worked extremely hard for it. Unfortunately, General Hazen denied this action due to the color of his skin. He believed this was not in the best interest for the Corps. Why did he do this you might ask? During this time period blacks were segregated into their own groups during wars having no mixed races. General Hazen was just following how they always did it recently in the Corps, that blacks do not belong with whites in war because it wouldn't work out, making the claim that he did nothing wrong. You could make the argument for him showing that black regiments were doing great things for the Corps, why mess that up? We do not agree with the logic of segregating by race. This was a big issue in the U.S. at the time. Secretary Lincoln would begin to take steps in the right direction. Upon General Hazen's request that Greene should not be allowed into the Signal Corps, he told Hazen and any other officers that race would no longer be an acceptable attribute to deny someone from joining the Signal Corps. He did add that if race would be a factor for acceptance into other branches of the army this would not apply to the Signal Corps because it is mostly comprised of Civil duties. We agree with what Lincoln said about race not effecting the Signal corps, but when he goes on about other branches of the army and how there can be a racial barrier, that is where we disagree. We believe there should be no racial barrier in the army at all. We believe this because there has already been instances where black regiments have been very successful. Then we ask why would race be a problem if all these blacks fighting for us have been doing a good job this whole time? Wouldn't combining be better for the cause? A better solution would be combining the two races and erase the social barrier, which Lincoln wants to do, it would be a good progression in solving the whole situation on race. Also, it would solve whole race barrier problem in the army.