The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Glory - timeline
10th October: Robert Gould Shaw is born. (Boston, Massachusetts)
April: Robert Gould Shaw joins the 7th New York Militia. (New York)
17th September: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac fight to a standstill along a creek on the bloodiest day in American history. (Antietam, Maryland)
27th November: Robert Shaw starts training soldiers. (Readville Camp, Massachusetts)
28th May: The 54th Massachusetts leaves Boston.
9th June: Robert Shaw's soldiers arrive. (Beaufort, South Carolina)
18th July: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and 272 of his troops are killed in an assault on Fort Wagner. (Fort Wagner, Charleston, South Carolina)