The top mistakes in Glory http://www.moviemistakes.com/film542 en Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:55:05 +0000 3417 When the 54th Mass. marches past a liberated plantation some black children wave them on. One of them is wearing a digital wristwatch. 3418 In the assault on Fort Wagner, the regiment attacks the fort from the wrong side.   In reality, the troops attacked from the south. 3415 During the first battle in the woods, the Union Regiment levels their un-bayonetted weapons and fires a volley at the Confederates. About 3 seconds later, without the order having been given, they are in hand to hand combat with bayonets fixed. 35309 Just before the final battle begins, the shots pan several times from Shaw, to the sea, and then to the fort. When the camera angle is looking at Shaw, the sky is bright blue. When it shifts to the ocean, the sky instantaneously becomes brownish tan, and then becomes a dismal gray behind the fort. 16926 During the burial scene at the end of the movie, the corpses of the 54th soldiers are shown with only their shoes removed. In reality, the corpses of the 54th dead were stripped of all usable clothing, as the South was desparate for any uniform parts (source: "A Brave, Black Regiment" by Louis Emilio). At the very least, the corpses of the officers would have been picked clean by souvenir hunters.