The 42nd Goes to Hollywood

FILMING OF TURNER PICTURES' The Ironclads
Linda Lane with Ironclads actor Philip Cassnof Linda Lane on the steps of Evelynton Plantation, ancestral home of fire-eater Edmund Ruffin, where much of the action of The Ironclads was filmed
A member of the 42nd's sister
regiment, the 28th Massachusetts,
in the gardens at Evelynton wearing
a dress she designed and constructed
herself.


FILMING OF Glory
Actor Matthew Broderick, as Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, on horseback
The 54th Massachusetts on the beach before the assault on Fort Wagner
42nd member and Glory extra Jim Fletcher confronts the age-old problem of what to do with a truckload of dead Yankees
42nd members inside "Fort Wagner"
Members of the 42nd gather at the re-created "Dunker Church" outside of Atlanta, Georgia, where Glory's opening scenes were filmed


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