Regarding Peter's statement that black soldiers would not put up
with the type of punishment (tied to a wheel and flogged) depicted in
"Glory", I found the following in Footnote 61, Chapter VII "Toeing the
Line," in Bell Wiley's THE LIFE OF BILLY YANK (New York: Bobbs-Merril
1952):
"...For an instance of a colonel having three colored soldiers
tied to stakes and flogged with horsewhips in March, 1864, see
W.D.A.G.O. GENERAL MARTIAL ORDERS, No. 265, Aug. 30, 1864."
The note was at the end of a paragraph describing an "array of unusual
punishments, some of which were highly original and a few extremely
brutal." (Wiley: 208).
Kelly Richter U59611@UICVM