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NARRATOR: In June 1863, after more
than two years of bloody conflict...
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...the Confederate army of Northern
Virginia, Robert E. Lee commanding...
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...slips across the Potomac
to begin the invasion of the North.
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It is an army of 70,000 men.
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They move slowly behind the Blue Ridge...
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...using the mountains
to screen their movements.
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Their objective is to draw
the Union army out into the open...
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...where it can be destroyed.
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Late in June, the Union army
of the Potomac, 80,000 men...
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...turns north from Virginia to begin
the great pursuit up the narrow roads...
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...across Maryland and into Pennsylvania.
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General Lee knows that a letter has been
prepared by the Southern government.
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A letter which offers peace.
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It is to be placed on the desk
of Abraham Lincoln, resident of the U.S...
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...the day after Lee has destroyed
the Army of the Potomac...
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...somewhere north of Washington.
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[EAGLE CRYING]
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Federal cavalry. Two brigades.
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Howdy, friend. Where you headed?
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-General Longstreet. I must see him.
-Is that a fact?
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I know General Lee's headquarters
are up here a little ways.
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Wherever he is, Longstreet is nearby.
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-Take me that way. It's urgent.
SERGEANT: Let me put it to you like this.
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You're not in a uniform
and you're coming through my picket line.
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I'll take you up there,
but if nobody there knows you...
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...I guess, unfortunately,
you'll have to be hanged.
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[CHATTERING]
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Sir. General, sir.
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I'm sorry, excuse me, sir,
but Harrison is back.
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-Harrison?
SORREL: Yes, sir.
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The scout, Harrison, sir.
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I knew you'd want to know that
as soon as possible.
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He's right outside here, sir.
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HARRISON:
Your servant, general.
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Didn't expect to see me, did you?
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I paid you in gold three weeks ago.
What do you got?
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I don't suppose you got
another one of those.
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That good southern tobacco.
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What do you got?
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I got the position of the Yankee army.
They're only a few miles down the road.
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The whole Yankee army coming this way.
Seven corps.
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A few miles?
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HARRISON: Yes. Two brigades
of Yankee cavalry down that road about...
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...two, four hours away.
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Behind that there's seven corps.
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I put it all on a map, if you'd like to
see it. About 80,000 men.
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All seven corps.
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HARRISON:
You didn't know any of that?
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You didn't know they were on the move.
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You wouldn't be spread so thin
if you'd known.
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How do you know we're spread out?
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Listen, general. I'm good at this business.
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Sir, I beg your pardon,
but if this man's story is true...
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...why haven't we heard about it?
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General Stuart's cavalry is out there.
He would have reported.
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-What do you know about Jeb Stuart?
-He's out there all right.
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He's riding up north somewhere
getting his name in the papers.
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He hasn't caused anything
but a little fuss.
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If the Federal army was moving that fast,
as close as you say...
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-...I believe General Stuart--
HARRISON: Look here.
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I came within an angry mule's kick
of the whole Yankee cavalry.
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And all the way through a picket line.
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Hazardous too.
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I don't know what Jeb Stuart's doing.
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I don't care. I do my job.
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Yankee cavalry's down the road,
thick as fleas...
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...not two hours hard ride
from this here now spot.
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And that, by God, is the Lord's truth.
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-Major Sorrel.
-Yes, sir.
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Will you go to General Lee's headquarters
and notify him about this?
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Yes, sir.
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-Captain Goree.
GOREE: Yes, sir.
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Get this man a tent.
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And a cigar.
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GOREE:
Sir.
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LONGSTREET: He says the lead
element is here with the Third Corps...
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...the Sixth right behind...
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...supported by
a column of Federal cavalry.
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Seven corps all together.
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The First and Eleventh
are above Taneytown.
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And there's more cavalry two hours east.
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There may be as many
as 100,000 altogether.
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Do you believe the man,
this Mr. Harrison?
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No choice. You remember him, sir,
the actor from Mississippi?
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An actor?
We move on the word of an actor?
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Can't afford not to.
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LEE: There would be some word
from General Stuart.
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General Stuart would not leave us blind.
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Oh. One other thing.
Hooker's been replaced.
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George Meade's the new commander.
Harrison read it in the Yankee papers.
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George Meade, Pennsylvania man.
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Meade would be cautious, I think.
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Take him some time to get organized.
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Perhaps we should move more swiftly.
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There may be an opportunity here.
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Yes, sir.
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LEE:
No reason to delay.
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I think we should concentrate here.
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All the roads converge
just east of this gap.
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-This junction will be necessary.
-Yes, sir.
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I left my spectacles over there.
What is the name of this town?
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LONGSTREET: Gettysburg.
LEE: Very well.
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SCOUT:
Message for Colonel Chamberlain.
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KILRAIN:
Colonel.
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Colonel, darling. Rise up, me bucko.
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I'm sorry, darling,
but we got a bit of a problem here.
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Would you like to hear about it?
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Would you wake up, sir?
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We got a whole company coming, sir.
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This way. I'll give you time to wake up,
but we've got quite a problem.
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Altogether, 120 men are coming.
We're to be having them as guests.
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What?
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Should be here any minute.
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-Who?
-Mutineers.
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Mutineers, colonel, me lad.
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A hundred and twenty men from the old
Second Maine, which has been disbanded.
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[CLEARS THROAT]
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A hundred and twenty mutineers?
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KILRAIN:
Yes, sir.
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You see, what happened was
the enlistment papers...
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...on the old Second Maine run out.
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They were sent home,
all except these 120 fellows...
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...who foolishly signed three-year papers.
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Three years, that is.
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So these poor fellows
got one more year to serve.
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Only they thought they were signing
to fight only with the Second Maine...
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...and the Second Maine only.
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So they, uh, quit.
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They resigned, you see. 120 men.
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[KILRAIN CHUCKLES]
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-Colonel, are you all right?
-Yeah.
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The point is,
these Maine fellows won't fight no more.
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Nobody can send them home
and nobody knows what to do with them.
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Until they thought of us...
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...being as we are the only other
Maine regiment in the Fifth Corps.
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So they've been assigned to us.
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Yes, sir.
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I have a message here
from the new commanding general.
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George Meade, sir. That's right.
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Our very own general
of our very own corps...
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...has been promoted
to command of the whole army.
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The latest, if you keep track of them
as they go by.
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The message says they'll be arriving
this morning and they are to join us.
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Oh. "And if they refuse to follow orders,
please feel free to shoot them."
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-To shoot them?
-Yes.
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-These Maine men?
-Mm.
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[CLEARS THROAT]
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"You are hereby authorized to shoot
any man who refuses to do his duty."
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Are these all Maine men?
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Yes, sir.
And fine big fellows they are too.
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[SIGHS]
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Mutiny. I thought that was
a word for the Navy.
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[CHUCKLES]
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LEE:
We'll move at sunrise.
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It's a good time of the day.
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I always do enjoy this time,
just before the dawn.
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When all this is over,
I shall miss it very much.
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Sir?
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I didn't mean the fighting.
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Well...
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...it's all in God's hands now.
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Good day, sir.
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Good day to you.
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SORREL:
General, sir.
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Should I wake them up, sir? Should I
get them waked up and get going?
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No, Moxley.
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Let the boys sleep a little longer.
They'll need it.
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Yes, sir.
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SOLDIER:
Prisoners, mark file, left!
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How many men do we have now
in the 20th Maine?
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Somewhere around 250, sir,
counting the officers.
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How the heck are we supposed
to take care of 120 men?
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Colonel, it's going to be a hot day today.
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Seeing as you already been down
with the heat, will you ride the horse...
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...that the good Lord provided,
instead of marching in the dirty dust?
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You walked.
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Darling, I've been in the infantry
since you was in books.
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After the first few thousand miles,
a man gets limber with his feet.
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Morning, Lawrence.
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How are you?
You're looking kind of peaked.
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Darn it, Tom. Don't call me Lawrence.
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It doesn't make sense.
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Hold a gun on a man to get him to fight.
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BREWER:
Detail, about face.
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Attention, detail!
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GUARD: You heard the captain.
Stand at attention!
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BREWER: Guards, get these men back
on their feet!
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[PRISONERS GRUMBLING]
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I'm looking
for commanding officer, 20th Maine.
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You found him.
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TOM: That's him.
-You're Chamberlain?
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Colonel Chamberlain to you.
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Captain Brewer, sir.
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118th Pennsylvania.
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If you're the commanding officer,
I present you with these prisoners.
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You're welcome to them.
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Lord knows, I had to use the bayonet
to keep them moving.
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You have to sign for them.
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Sign it, lieutenant.
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You are relieved, captain.
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You are authorized to use
whatever force necessary.
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You want to shoot them...
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...go right ahead.
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Won't nobody say nothing.
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I said you are relieved, captain.
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You men can leave now.
We won't need any guards.
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My name is Chamberlain.
I'm the colonel of the 20th Maine.
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When did you have something to eat?
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They're trying to break us
by not feeding us.
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We ain't broke yet.
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They just told me you were coming
a little while ago.
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I'll get the cook going.
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The meat may be raw,
but there's no time to cook.
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We've got quite a ways to go today.
You'll be coming with us, so eat hearty.
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We'll set you up in those trees.
Sergeant Tozier, see to it.
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TOZIER:
Yes, sir.
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Well.
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You boys go eat, then I'll come over
and hear what you have to say.
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Colonel.
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Colonel, we've got grievances.
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The men elected me to talk for them.
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All right. You come along with me.
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The rest of you boys go eat.
We're gonna get moving in a little bit.
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TOZIER:
All right, men, on your feet.
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-Gosh, Lawrence.
-Smile. Don't call me Lawrence.
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-Are they moving?
-Yes, sir.
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TOZIER:
Forward, march.
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LAWRENCE:
What's your name?
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I don't feel too kindly, colonel.
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LAWRENCE: Yes, well,
I'm usually not this informal.
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I just took command
of this regiment a few days ago.
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Somebody ought to welcome you
to my, uh-- To our outfit.
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They tell me they're holding you fellows
because you signed three-year papers.
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I'm sorry. Would you like some coffee?
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Are you sure?
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-Go ahead. Sit down, Mister....
-Bucklin.
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Joseph Bucklin.
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Listen, Colonel.
I've been in 11 different engagements.
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How many have you been in?
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Not that many.
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It ain't the papers.
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I done my share. We all have.
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Damn good men.
Shouldn't be used this way.
244
00:22:43,779 -- 00:22:45,530
Look here.
245
00:22:46,866 -- 00:22:48,950
It went clean through.
246
00:22:49,452 -- 00:22:51,953
Colonel, we got a courier coming.
247
00:22:54,665 -- 00:22:58,460
Listen, colonel. I'm tired.
248
00:22:58,627 -- 00:23:01,046
You know what I mean? I m tired.
249
00:23:01,213 -- 00:23:05,884
I've had all this army,
all these officers.... This damn Hooker,
this damn idiot Meade.
250
00:23:06,052 -- 00:23:10,472
All of them. The whole bloody, lousy mess
of sick-brained, potbellied scareheads.
251
00:23:10,639 -- 00:23:12,807
They ain't fit to lead a johnny detail.
252
00:23:12,975 -- 00:23:17,604
They ain't fit to pour pee out of a boot
with instructions written under the heel.
253
00:23:18,522 -- 00:23:19,814
I'm tired.
254
00:23:20,566 -- 00:23:23,985
We are good men
and we had our own good flag.
255
00:23:24,153 -- 00:23:28,156
These damn idiots used us
like we were cows or dogs or worse.
256
00:23:28,324 -- 00:23:29,949
We ain't gonna win this war.
257
00:23:30,117 -- 00:23:33,453
We can't win with these
lame-brained bastards from West Point.
258
00:23:33,621 -- 00:23:36,831
These damn gentlemen. These officers!
259
00:23:38,125 -- 00:23:39,751
KILRAIN:
The courier, sir.
260
00:23:43,756 -- 00:23:45,256
Don't go away.
261
00:23:47,635 -- 00:23:49,135
Colonel Chamberlain, sir.
262
00:23:49,303 -- 00:23:52,514
Colonel Vincent wishes to inform you
the Fifth Corps is moving out.
263
00:23:52,681 -- 00:23:55,350
You and the 20th Maine Regiment
are instructed to lead.
264
00:23:55,518 -- 00:23:59,521
20th Maine's assigned first position in line.
Send out advanced guards and flankers.
265
00:23:59,688 -- 00:24:02,023
LAWRENCE: Flankers?
-Yes, flankers.
266
00:24:02,191 -- 00:24:05,318
LAWRENCE: Right, yes.
My compliments to the colonel.
267
00:24:05,486 -- 00:24:08,113
Captain Clark, you heard him.
Get the regiment up.
268
00:24:08,280 -- 00:24:10,323
Sound the assembly. Strike the tents.
269
00:24:12,368 -- 00:24:15,537
You better get something to eat.
Looks like you could use it.
270
00:24:15,704 -- 00:24:17,372
Tell your men I'm coming.
271
00:24:17,540 -- 00:24:20,166
The boys from the Second Maine
are being fed, Lawrence.
272
00:24:20,334 -- 00:24:21,960
Don't call me Lawrence.
273
00:24:22,670 -- 00:24:24,671
Damn it, Lawrence. I'm your brother.
274
00:24:24,839 -- 00:24:27,382
Be careful about the name business
in front of the men.
275
00:24:27,550 -- 00:24:29,717
Because we're brothers,
it looks like favoritism.
276
00:24:29,885 -- 00:24:32,345
General Meade got his own son
as his aide-de-camp.
277
00:24:32,513 -- 00:24:35,306
That's different.
Generals can do anything.
278
00:24:35,474 -- 00:24:39,394
Nothing quite so much like God on earth
as a general on battlefield.
279
00:24:40,062 -- 00:24:43,815
What are you going to do with them?
Colonel, sir.
280
00:24:43,983 -- 00:24:46,776
You can't shoot them.
You never go back to Maine if you do.
281
00:24:46,944 -- 00:24:48,319
I know that.
282
00:24:49,780 -- 00:24:51,489
I wonder if they do.
283
00:24:56,829 -- 00:24:59,247
Colonel, sir. You know who this man is?
284
00:24:59,415 -- 00:25:01,916
Dan Burns, from Orono.
I know his daddy, the preacher.
285
00:25:02,084 -- 00:25:03,585
Best cusser I ever heard.
286
00:25:03,752 -- 00:25:06,588
Knows more fine swear words
than any man in Maine.
287
00:25:25,900 -- 00:25:28,109
LAWRENCE:
You men gather around.
288
00:25:40,706 -- 00:25:45,126
I've been talking with Private Bucklin.
He's told me about your problem.
289
00:25:46,337 -- 00:25:48,129
There's nothing I can do today.
290
00:25:48,297 -- 00:25:51,132
We're moving out in a few minutes.
We'll be moving all day.
291
00:25:51,300 -- 00:25:54,093
I've been ordered
to take you men with me.
292
00:25:54,470 -- 00:25:56,054
I'm told that...
293
00:25:58,224 -- 00:26:01,434
...if you don't come, I can shoot you.
294
00:26:02,311 -- 00:26:04,395
Well, you know I won't do that.
295
00:26:04,980 -- 00:26:07,398
Maybe somebody else will, but I won't.
296
00:26:07,566 -- 00:26:09,400
So that's that.
297
00:26:09,568 -- 00:26:12,654
Here's the, uh, situation.
298
00:26:12,821 -- 00:26:16,658
The whole reb army is up that road
a ways waiting for us.
299
00:26:16,825 -- 00:26:18,534
This is no time for an argument.
300
00:26:18,702 -- 00:26:20,828
I tell you,
we could surely use you fellows.
301
00:26:20,996 -- 00:26:22,997
We're now well below half strength.
302
00:26:23,165 -- 00:26:26,918
Whether you fight or not,
that's up to you.
303
00:26:27,086 -- 00:26:31,714
Whether you come along is....
Well, you're coming.
304
00:26:31,882 -- 00:26:33,758
You know who we are,
what we're doing here.
305
00:26:33,926 -- 00:26:36,970
If you fight alongside us,
there's a few things you must know.
306
00:26:37,137 -- 00:26:42,016
This regiment was formed
last summer in Maine.
307
00:26:42,184 -- 00:26:44,852
There were 1,000 of us then.
308
00:26:45,020 -- 00:26:48,064
There are less than 300 of us now.
309
00:26:52,278 -- 00:26:56,030
All of us volunteered to fight
for the Union, just as you did.
310
00:26:57,616 -- 00:27:01,411
Some came mainly because
we were bored at home.
311
00:27:01,578 -- 00:27:04,831
Thought this looked like it might be fun.
312
00:27:05,624 -- 00:27:08,710
Some came because
we were ashamed not to.
313
00:27:10,629 -- 00:27:15,842
Many of us came
because it was the right thing to do.
314
00:27:18,679 -- 00:27:20,722
And all of us have seen men die.
315
00:27:23,142 -- 00:27:25,184
This is a different kind of army.
316
00:27:25,352 -- 00:27:28,521
If you look back through history,
you'll see men fighting for pay...
317
00:27:28,689 -- 00:27:31,232
...for women, for some other kind of loot.
318
00:27:31,400 -- 00:27:34,402
They fight for land, power.
319
00:27:35,988 -- 00:27:40,033
Because a king leads them,
or just because they like killing.
320
00:27:40,200 -- 00:27:42,577
We are here for something new.
321
00:27:42,745 -- 00:27:47,040
This has not happened much
in the history of the world.
322
00:27:48,500 -- 00:27:52,420
We are an army out to set other men free.
323
00:27:54,173 -- 00:27:57,383
America should be free ground.
324
00:27:58,510 -- 00:27:59,635
All of it.
325
00:27:59,803 -- 00:28:02,972
Not divided by a line
between slave state and free.
326
00:28:03,140 -- 00:28:08,019
All the way from here
to the Pacific Ocean.
327
00:28:10,189 -- 00:28:12,357
No man has to bow.
328
00:28:13,484 -- 00:28:15,485
No man born to royalty.
329
00:28:15,652 -- 00:28:19,572
Here we judge you by what you do,
not by who your father was.
330
00:28:21,700 -- 00:28:24,035
Here you can be something.
331
00:28:24,203 -- 00:28:27,955
Here is the place to build a home.
332
00:28:30,125 -- 00:28:32,043
But it's not the land.
333
00:28:33,379 -- 00:28:35,380
There's always more land.
334
00:28:37,883 -- 00:28:42,011
It's the idea that we all have value.
335
00:28:44,264 -- 00:28:45,640
You and me.
336
00:28:49,770 -- 00:28:55,149
What we're fighting for, in the end...
337
00:28:58,320 -- 00:29:00,405
...we're fighting for each other.
338
00:29:13,502 -- 00:29:15,211
Sorry.
339
00:29:15,379 -- 00:29:17,588
I didn't mean to preach.
340
00:29:20,342 -- 00:29:22,218
You go ahead.
341
00:29:22,386 -- 00:29:25,596
You talk for a while.
Uh, if you, uh....
342
00:29:27,516 -- 00:29:31,602
If you choose to join us and want
your muskets back, you can have them.
343
00:29:31,770 -- 00:29:34,772
Nothing more will be said
by anybody, anywhere.
344
00:29:35,607 -- 00:29:39,527
If you choose not to join us,
you can come along under guard.
345
00:29:39,695 -- 00:29:41,696
When this is over, I'll do what I can...
346
00:29:41,864 -- 00:29:44,740
...to see you get a fair treatment,
but for now, we're moving out.
347
00:29:51,290 -- 00:29:52,707
Gentlemen.
348
00:29:54,126 -- 00:29:56,377
I think if we lose this fight...
349
00:29:58,589 -- 00:30:00,298
...we lose the war.
350
00:30:02,551 -- 00:30:06,846
So, if you choose to join us,
I'll be personally very grateful.
351
00:30:18,400 -- 00:30:21,027
[DRUM BEATING]
352
00:30:21,195 -- 00:30:23,863
[CHATTERING]
353
00:30:31,413 -- 00:30:33,289
SPEAR:
Colonel, it's a fine morning.
354
00:30:33,457 -- 00:30:35,875
-Captain, are we ready?
-That we are.
355
00:30:36,043 -- 00:30:37,835
Then let's move out.
356
00:30:38,128 -- 00:30:39,754
20th Maine!
357
00:30:40,589 -- 00:30:41,672
Forward!
358
00:30:41,840 -- 00:30:43,132
[SOLDIERS YELLING]
359
00:30:43,300 -- 00:30:44,884
March!
360
00:30:45,052 -- 00:30:47,136
[MARCHING MUSIC PLAYING]
361
00:32:36,872 -- 00:32:38,372
[GUARD YELLS]
362
00:32:47,007 -- 00:32:49,175
GAMBLE:
That's infantry, all right.
363
00:32:49,343 -- 00:32:52,094
At least a whole brigade.
364
00:32:52,262 -- 00:32:53,638
BUFORD:
Any sign of cavalry?
365
00:32:54,514 -- 00:32:55,931
Not a lick, sir.
366
00:32:56,099 -- 00:32:57,892
That's strange.
367
00:32:58,060 -- 00:33:00,561
Infantry moving alone
in enemy country, blind.
368
00:33:00,729 -- 00:33:03,022
Very strange, sir.
369
00:33:03,190 -- 00:33:04,649
What do you make of that?
370
00:33:05,359 -- 00:33:06,901
He's headed this way.
371
00:33:07,069 -- 00:33:08,319
Sir?
372
00:33:08,487 -- 00:33:10,571
Lee's turned. That's the main body.
373
00:33:10,739 -- 00:33:12,031
You think so?
374
00:33:13,033 -- 00:33:16,202
-I thought they were going to Harrisburg.
-He was.
375
00:33:16,411 -- 00:33:19,413
That's too many troops
to be a raiding party.
376
00:33:19,581 -- 00:33:21,499
There's power behind it.
377
00:33:21,667 -- 00:33:25,294
Sir, if you want to fight here,
this is such lovely ground.
378
00:33:26,046 -- 00:33:28,255
It's the best damn ground
I've seen all day.
379
00:33:28,423 -- 00:33:29,715
It is that.
380
00:33:35,055 -- 00:33:37,556
BUFORD: We'll move both brigades
into town.
381
00:33:37,724 -- 00:33:40,601
That'll make the good citizens happy.
382
00:33:41,895 -- 00:33:43,354
Let's go down and have a look.
383
00:33:43,522 -- 00:33:45,773
Sir.
384
00:34:12,968 -- 00:34:16,053
[MARCHING MUSIC PLAYING]
385
00:34:27,733 -- 00:34:30,109
[WOMEN CHATTERING]
386
00:34:30,277 -- 00:34:34,155
-Soldier, your shirt needs mending.
-I thought the war was in Virginia.
387
00:34:36,616 -- 00:34:38,325
MAN:
What division are you boys with?
388
00:34:48,253 -- 00:34:49,879
Colonel, do you mind?
389
00:34:50,172 -- 00:34:53,632
A good officer doesn't ride all day.
I've been sitting too long anyway.
390
00:34:53,842 -- 00:34:55,384
TOM:
What do you think?
391
00:34:55,552 -- 00:34:58,137
-What do you think?
-About what?
392
00:34:58,305 -- 00:35:00,347
About the Second Maine boys, what else?
393
00:35:00,515 -- 00:35:04,685
-Are any of them going to join us?
-Would you believe it? All but six!
394
00:35:04,853 -- 00:35:05,853
What?
395
00:35:06,021 -- 00:35:09,023
I counted by actual vote.
114 voted to pick up the rifle.
396
00:35:09,191 -- 00:35:12,193
-Well, I'll be.
-You did good, brother, real good!
397
00:35:12,360 -- 00:35:14,361
Good. See to it they march together.
398
00:35:14,529 -- 00:35:17,281
Yes. Glazier's got the hardheads in tow.
There are six.
399
00:35:17,449 -- 00:35:19,700
Get the names.
Put them in different companies.
400
00:35:19,868 -- 00:35:22,036
I want them spread out,
not bunched together.
401
00:35:22,204 -- 00:35:25,790
-I'll see about their muskets.
-Colonel, sir.
402
00:35:30,670 -- 00:35:34,632
BUFORD: Keep the patrols out.
Scout this bunch in front of us.
403
00:35:34,800 -- 00:35:39,345
Also scout up north. They'll be
coming over that way from Carlisle.
404
00:35:39,971 -- 00:35:42,056
I think Lee's turned the whole army...
405
00:35:42,224 -- 00:35:44,225
...headed this way,
trying to get around us...
406
00:35:44,392 -- 00:35:46,560
...get between Meade and Washington.
407
00:35:49,731 -- 00:35:53,192
If I'm right, there'll be a lot
of troops up this road...
408
00:35:53,360 -- 00:35:55,736
...and down that northern road too,
so hop to it.
409
00:35:55,904 -- 00:35:56,946
Sir.
410
00:36:06,164 -- 00:36:07,873
[BELL TOLLING]
411
00:36:08,041 -- 00:36:11,669
By God, I can't believe
they're coming this far north.
412
00:36:11,837 -- 00:36:14,588
Can I have a ride on your pony?
413
00:36:18,677 -- 00:36:20,970
There's Johnny Rebs everywhere.
414
00:36:21,137 -- 00:36:22,721
Sure am glad to see you fellas.
415
00:36:22,889 -- 00:36:24,181
Your servant, ma'am.
416
00:36:24,349 -- 00:36:26,517
Is there going to be a disturbance
in our town?
417
00:36:26,685 -- 00:36:28,727
Nothing the cavalry can't handle.
418
00:36:33,608 -- 00:36:35,943
Never knew you were such a cavalier.
419
00:36:36,111 -- 00:36:40,406
I'm just not as shy and reserved
as you, sir. Beg your pardon.
420
00:36:40,574 -- 00:36:43,826
Yeah, I m about as shy as
a regiment at full gallop.
421
00:36:43,994 -- 00:36:46,579
Rebel raiding parties
have been here for days.
422
00:36:46,746 -- 00:36:50,082
Peeled the land of every cow,
chicken and hog.
423
00:36:50,250 -- 00:36:53,544
Can't chew a plow horse with
what they didn't take.
424
00:36:54,546 -- 00:36:56,797
Bobby Lee's up this road
a piece.
425
00:36:56,965 -- 00:37:00,759
Got the whole army of
Northern Virginia with him.
426
00:37:00,927 -- 00:37:04,305
I recommend you good folks get back
to your homes and stay indoors.
427
00:37:04,472 -- 00:37:05,931
Yeah, for how long?
428
00:37:06,099 -- 00:37:08,601
Till the shooting stops.
429
00:37:11,563 -- 00:37:17,359
Something about the mayor and politicians
and dignitaries that troubles me a bit.
430
00:37:17,527 -- 00:37:20,279
They're too fat and they talk too much.
431
00:37:20,447 -- 00:37:24,074
And they never think twice
about asking a man to die for them.
432
00:38:39,526 -- 00:38:41,610
You know what's happening here
in the morning?
433
00:38:41,778 -- 00:38:42,903
Sir?
434
00:38:43,071 -- 00:38:46,156
The whole damn rebel army
is gonna be here.
435
00:38:46,324 -- 00:38:49,618
They'll move through this town,
occupy the hills on the other side.
436
00:38:49,786 -- 00:38:53,998
When our people arrive, Lee'll have
high ground. There'll be the devil to pay.
437
00:38:54,165 -- 00:38:55,749
The high ground!
438
00:38:57,919 -- 00:39:03,757
Meade will come in slowly, cautiously,
new to command.
439
00:39:03,925 -- 00:39:06,885
They'll be on his back from Washington.
440
00:39:07,053 -- 00:39:11,306
Wires hot with messages. Attack! Attack!
441
00:39:12,726 -- 00:39:16,103
So he will set up a ring
around these hills.
442
00:39:17,063 -- 00:39:21,483
And when Lee's army is nicely entrenched
behind fat rocks on the high ground...
443
00:39:21,651 -- 00:39:24,528
...Meade will finally attack,
if he can coordinate the army.
444
00:39:25,113 -- 00:39:28,157
Straight up the hillside, out in the open...
445
00:39:28,324 -- 00:39:31,577
...in that gorgeous field of fire.
446
00:39:32,579 -- 00:39:37,666
We will charge valiantly
and be butchered valiantly.
447
00:39:42,630 -- 00:39:46,633
And afterward, men in tall hats and
gold watch fobs will thump their chest...
448
00:39:46,801 -- 00:39:49,845
...and say what a brave charge it was.
449
00:39:58,146 -- 00:40:00,981
Devin, I've led a soldier's life...
450
00:40:01,149 -- 00:40:04,985
...and I've never seen anything
as brutally clear as this.
451
00:40:05,153 -- 00:40:09,823
It's as if I can actually see the blue troops
in one long bloody moment...
452
00:40:09,991 -- 00:40:13,410
...going up the long slope
to the stony top...
453
00:40:14,579 -- 00:40:17,039
...as if it were already done...
454
00:40:17,207 -- 00:40:19,541
...and already a memory.
455
00:40:19,709 -- 00:40:22,878
An odd, set...
456
00:40:23,046 -- 00:40:25,798
...stony quality to it.
457
00:40:27,008 -- 00:40:31,136
As if tomorrow has already happened
and there's nothing you can do about it.
458
00:40:32,180 -- 00:40:35,099
The way you sometimes feel
before an ill-considered attack...
459
00:40:35,266 -- 00:40:39,853
...knowing it will fail,
but you cannot stop it.
460
00:40:40,021 -- 00:40:43,690
You must even take part and help it fail.
461
00:40:44,109 -- 00:40:45,943
Sir.
462
00:40:48,530 -- 00:40:50,948
We have 2,500 men.
463
00:40:51,116 -- 00:40:54,201
They'll be coming in force.
464
00:40:54,369 -- 00:40:58,247
There could be 20,000
coming down that road in the morning.
465
00:41:02,001 -- 00:41:05,546
If we hold this ridge for a couple of hours,
we can keep them away.
466
00:41:05,713 -- 00:41:08,257
We can block that road
until our main body gets here.
467
00:41:08,424 -- 00:41:11,218
We can deprive the enemy
of the high ground!
468
00:41:11,386 -- 00:41:14,888
The boys are ready for a brawl.
No doubt of that.
469
00:41:15,056 -- 00:41:17,099
We'll force the reb to deploy.
470
00:41:17,267 -- 00:41:20,018
That's a narrow road
they'll be coming down.
471
00:41:20,395 -- 00:41:24,898
If we stack them up, it will take them a
while to get on track to get into position.
472
00:41:25,692 -- 00:41:27,067
Is Calef's battery up yet?
473
00:41:27,735 -- 00:41:29,736
His six guns are deploying now.
474
00:41:29,904 -- 00:41:32,114
How far back is Reynolds
with the main force?
475
00:41:32,740 -- 00:41:34,867
About 10 miles, sir. Not much more.
476
00:41:35,076 -- 00:41:37,202
[BUGLE BLOWING]
477
00:41:45,587 -- 00:41:48,547
Sir, you were right.
478
00:41:48,715 -- 00:41:51,842
My scouts report the rebel army
is coming this way for sure.
479
00:41:52,010 -- 00:41:54,595
They're all concentrating in this direction.
480
00:41:59,934 -- 00:42:00,934
[SIGHS]
481
00:42:04,105 -- 00:42:06,857
We'll hold here in the morning.
482
00:42:07,025 -- 00:42:10,569
Long enough for Reynolds
and the infantry to arrive.
483
00:42:10,737 -- 00:42:13,447
If we hang on to the high ground,
we have a chance...
484
00:42:13,615 -- 00:42:15,949
...to win this fight that's coming.
485
00:42:16,117 -- 00:42:18,619
-Understood?
ALL: Yes, sir.
486
00:42:18,786 -- 00:42:22,748
Post the cannon along this road,
the Chambersburg Pike.
487
00:42:22,916 -- 00:42:27,294
The rebels will hit us at dawn.
I think we can hold them at least 2 hours.
488
00:42:27,462 -- 00:42:30,130
Hell, general,
we can hold them all the livelong day.
489
00:42:30,298 -- 00:42:31,590
He's right, sir.
490
00:42:31,758 -- 00:42:34,051
At Thoroughfare Gap,
you held against Longstreet.
491
00:42:34,219 -- 00:42:35,385
You held for six hours.
492
00:42:35,553 -- 00:42:37,179
They never came. We held for nothing.
493
00:42:44,812 -- 00:42:47,856
The rebs will hit us just about first light.
494
00:42:48,024 -- 00:42:50,567
Keep a clear eye.
495
00:42:50,735 -- 00:42:53,487
Have the pickets give us a good warning.
496
00:42:53,655 -- 00:42:55,489
All right, gentlemen.
497
00:42:55,657 -- 00:42:58,867
-Let's get posted.
-Sir.
498
00:43:02,163 -- 00:43:04,873
[YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
499
00:43:31,567 -- 00:43:35,195
BUFORD [IN VOICE-OVER]: Gen. Reynolds,
my troops are deployed on good ground...
500
00:43:35,363 -- 00:43:38,699
...west of Gettysburg
on the !hambersburg Pike.
501
00:43:40,994 -- 00:43:43,537
I've sent reconnaissance parties
in every direction...
502
00:43:43,705 -- 00:43:46,206
...from which the enemy
might be approaching.
503
00:43:46,374 -- 00:43:49,543
I'm satisfied A.P. Hill s corps
is massed just west of here...
504
00:43:49,711 -- 00:43:51,378
...back of Cashtown.
505
00:43:51,671 -- 00:43:55,299
The enemy's pickets
are within four miles of my position.
506
00:43:55,466 -- 00:43:59,386
Rumor says Ewell s coming
over the mountains from !arlisle.
507
00:44:04,017 -- 00:44:07,477
If true, two Confederate corps
will converge upon us in the morning.
508
00:44:07,645 -- 00:44:09,938
One from the west
and one from the north.
509
00:44:10,106 -- 00:44:13,066
Do you want me to hold
this position if attacked?
510
00:44:13,234 -- 00:44:15,736
Confirmation requested.
511
00:44:16,571 -- 00:44:18,697
J.N.O. Buford.
512
00:44:41,262 -- 00:44:43,513
LEE [IN VOICE-OVER]:
"Bow down thy heaven, O Lord.
513
00:44:44,265 -- 00:44:48,935
!ome down and touch the mountains
and they shall smoke.
514
00:44:49,103 -- 00:44:54,858
Blessed be the Lord, my strength,
which teaches my fingers to fight...
515
00:44:55,026 -- 00:44:59,446
and my hands to war. Amen."
516
00:45:00,948 -- 00:45:02,657
Good morning, Lucy.
517
00:45:04,285 -- 00:45:06,453
Traveler, good morning to you, sir.
518
00:45:10,124 -- 00:45:11,792
Good morning, sir.
519
00:45:11,959 -- 00:45:13,418
Good morning, Major Taylor.
520
00:45:14,796 -- 00:45:17,214
How are you this morning, sir?
How you feeling, sir?
521
00:45:17,382 -- 00:45:19,800
Is there any word from General Stuart?
522
00:45:19,967 -- 00:45:23,428
No, sir. I would have
wakened you, sir, if....
523
00:45:23,596 -- 00:45:25,222
There was no report at all, sir.
524
00:45:25,390 -- 00:45:28,892
If I don't hear from General Stuart by this
evening, I m gonna send word out to him.
525
00:45:29,477 -- 00:45:32,896
Yes, sir. I have a message
from General Hill, sir.
526
00:45:33,064 -- 00:45:35,649
-Yes?
-General Hill wishes to inform you that...
527
00:45:35,817 -- 00:45:39,069
...he is going to Gettysburg this morning
with his lead division general, Heth.
528
00:45:39,237 -- 00:45:41,321
-For what purpose?
-He advises me that there is...
529
00:45:41,489 -- 00:45:46,076
...a supply of shoes in the town, and he
intends to requisition some footgear.
530
00:45:46,244 -- 00:45:49,079
General Hill knows I want no fight
till this army is concentrated?
531
00:45:49,247 -- 00:45:50,872
General Hill expects no opposition...
532
00:45:51,040 -- 00:45:53,333
...except for some local militia
with shotguns and such.
533
00:45:53,501 -- 00:45:54,584
Very well.
534
00:45:54,752 -- 00:45:57,546
-Will the general have breakfast?
LEE: No, thanks.
535
00:45:57,713 -- 00:45:59,714
We have flapjacks in small mountains.
536
00:45:59,882 -- 00:46:03,635
Fresh butter, bacon, wagons of ham,
apple butter, ripe cherries.
537
00:46:03,803 -- 00:46:05,679
You really ought to pitch in, sir.
538
00:46:05,847 -- 00:46:08,932
Courtesy of our host,
the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
539
00:46:09,100 -- 00:46:11,351
Has there been any trouble
from the local population?
540
00:46:11,519 -- 00:46:13,103
Oh, no, sir. No trouble with them.
541
00:46:13,271 -- 00:46:15,188
The men are behaving very well.
542
00:46:15,356 -- 00:46:18,942
But there are some local women
who claim we have taken all their food.
543
00:46:19,110 -- 00:46:21,403
And though they don't complain of
our having paid for it...
544
00:46:21,571 -- 00:46:23,822
...in the good dear coin
of mighty Virginia...
545
00:46:23,990 -- 00:46:26,616
...well, sir, they do object to starving.
546
00:46:26,784 -- 00:46:29,286
We must be charitable
to these people, major.
547
00:46:29,454 -- 00:46:31,621
-We have enough enemies.
-Yes, sir.
548
00:46:31,789 -- 00:46:34,207
The men have their strict orders.
549
00:46:34,375 -- 00:46:36,877
But I must admit those orders would be
easier to follow...
550
00:46:37,044 -- 00:46:39,421
...had the Yankees showed charity
when they were in Virginia.
551
00:46:39,589 -- 00:46:43,383
Major, this army
will conduct itself properly...
552
00:46:43,551 -- 00:46:47,304
...and with respect to all
civilian population at all times.
553
00:46:47,472 -- 00:46:49,848
And you will personally report to me
any infraction...
554
00:46:50,016 -- 00:46:52,601
...no matter how minor or trivial
they may appear.
555
00:46:52,768 -- 00:46:55,061
-Yes, sir.
-Very well.
556
00:46:55,980 -- 00:46:58,857
[BAND PLAYING]
557
00:47:08,409 -- 00:47:09,951
LONGSTREET:
Good morning, sir.
558
00:47:10,119 -- 00:47:12,579
LEE:
General Longstreet, good morning.
559
00:47:16,417 -- 00:47:18,126
Federal forces are concentrating.
560
00:47:18,294 -- 00:47:21,463
LEE: Yes, and I've confirmed
some of your man Harrison's information.
561
00:47:21,631 -- 00:47:24,925
Their new commander
is definitely George Meade.
562
00:47:27,470 -- 00:47:30,096
I have reports of Union cavalry
in Gettysburg.
563
00:47:30,264 -- 00:47:31,932
-Cavalry?
-Mm-hm.
564
00:47:32,099 -- 00:47:34,434
General Hill reports only militia.
565
00:47:34,602 -- 00:47:36,853
-He did?
-Mm.
566
00:47:37,438 -- 00:47:38,772
Well, it's cavalry.
567
00:47:38,940 -- 00:47:41,608
Where there's cavalry,
infantry will be close behind.
568
00:47:41,776 -- 00:47:42,901
Meade's closing fast.
569
00:47:43,069 -- 00:47:45,612
It could be he's thinking
of swinging around behind us.
570
00:47:45,780 -- 00:47:49,783
Behind, in front, direction does not matter.
We'll fight him wherever he is.
571
00:47:49,951 -- 00:47:53,703
Probably got old Abe Lincoln on his back
frantic to throw us out of Pennsylvania.
572
00:47:53,871 -- 00:47:55,956
We may have an opportunity here.
573
00:47:56,123 -- 00:47:57,958
I agree.
574
00:47:58,125 -- 00:48:01,670
Our objective was to get their army
out of Virginia and into the open.
575
00:48:01,837 -- 00:48:03,755
Now they are in the open.
576
00:48:03,923 -- 00:48:06,299
General Meade has been forcing
the march.
577
00:48:06,467 -- 00:48:08,218
The weather has been unusually hot.
578
00:48:08,386 -- 00:48:12,347
He will probably arrive here worn out
and weary, piece by piece.
579
00:48:12,515 -- 00:48:15,517
If we concentrate,
we can hit him as he comes up.
580
00:48:15,685 -- 00:48:18,395
If we can take out a few of his corps,
we can even the odds.
581
00:48:18,563 -- 00:48:21,481
But we must strike hard
and we must strike quickly.
582
00:48:22,942 -- 00:48:24,693
What artillery is that, major?
583
00:48:24,860 -- 00:48:26,486
I don't know, sir.
584
00:48:26,654 -- 00:48:28,113
General Heth is in front.
585
00:48:28,281 -- 00:48:31,575
-My instructions were clear?
-Yes, sir. To all commanders.
586
00:48:31,742 -- 00:48:34,828
Avoid contact with the enemy
until the army's up and concentrated.
587
00:48:34,996 -- 00:48:35,996
And General Heth?
588
00:48:36,163 -- 00:48:38,331
He has instructions
not to force major action.
589
00:48:38,499 -- 00:48:40,125
I told him this morning.
590
00:48:40,293 -- 00:48:42,961
We should move closer to the front.
Send for General Heth.
591
00:48:43,129 -- 00:48:45,422
-I must know what is going on.
-Yes, sir.
592
00:48:46,924 -- 00:48:48,508
General...
593
00:48:49,594 -- 00:48:53,305
...in the fight that is coming,
I want you to stay back from the main line.
594
00:48:53,472 -- 00:48:56,349
This army has lost too many
of its veteran commanders...
595
00:48:56,517 -- 00:49:00,687
...and you, sir, have a very bad habit
of moving too far forward.
596
00:49:03,482 -- 00:49:05,066
Can't lead from behind.
597
00:49:05,234 -- 00:49:07,152
May I say it plainly, sir.
598
00:49:07,320 -- 00:49:09,571
I cannot afford to lose you.
599
00:49:10,573 -- 00:49:14,743
General, let's look to this day.
You may bring up your corps.
600
00:49:16,996 -- 00:49:18,538
Sir.
601
00:49:21,042 -- 00:49:24,711
Major Taylor, have Traveler saddled up.
602
00:49:24,879 -- 00:49:28,423
-I'm gonna look around for myself.
-Yes, sir.
603
00:50:06,045 -- 00:50:32,779
[SOLDIERS YELLING]
604
00:50:42,873 -- 00:50:45,917
They've got a brigade in position
and that's all.
605
00:50:46,085 -- 00:50:50,213
We've got the best damn ground around,
and they're hitting me with one brigade.
606
00:50:51,215 -- 00:50:53,341
Lovely. Lovely.
607
00:51:02,435 -- 00:51:04,519
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
608
00:51:04,687 -- 00:51:06,604
Go on down, gentlemen.
609
00:51:23,330 -- 00:51:24,998
OFFICER:
Fall back!
610
00:51:29,670 -- 00:51:31,629
They're on the run.
611
00:51:42,016 -- 00:51:43,183
GAMBLE:
Close crop, General.
612
00:51:43,350 -- 00:51:45,477
BUFORD: How are your losses?
GAMBLE: Not bad, sir.
613
00:51:45,811 -- 00:51:48,354
We got them out in the open.
Really got a twist on them.
614
00:51:48,522 -- 00:51:51,733
They are arrogant people, you know?
They came right at us.
615
00:51:51,901 -- 00:51:55,612
We took some prisoners.
They're from Heth's division of Hill s corps.
616
00:51:55,780 -- 00:51:57,614
That's what I've got in front of me.
617
00:51:57,782 -- 00:52:01,034
A new division. 8,000 men more or less.
All within sound of this.
618
00:52:01,202 -- 00:52:04,621
Just back up that road between here
and Cashtown. A little ways up the road.
619
00:52:04,789 -- 00:52:07,040
It'll take them a little
while to get on line.
620
00:52:07,208 -- 00:52:10,585
GAMBLE: Yes, sir, but Hill s whole corps
is behind. Maybe 25,000.
621
00:52:10,753 -- 00:52:12,962
Longstreet behind that.
Ewell over there to the north.
622
00:52:13,130 -- 00:52:14,714
BUFORD:
I know, Colonel.
623
00:52:14,882 -- 00:52:18,635
When John Reynolds gets here,
he won't have the full army with him.
624
00:52:18,803 -- 00:52:19,844
Only part of it.
625
00:52:20,012 -- 00:52:22,806
The point is, the rebs will be here
this afternoon...
626
00:52:22,973 -- 00:52:25,975
...with everything they've got.
I just thought I'd mention it.
627
00:52:26,852 -- 00:52:29,562
What do you want me to do here, sir?
628
00:52:29,730 -- 00:52:31,439
Heth will be back in a bit.
629
00:52:31,607 -- 00:52:34,526
If he's got any brains at all,
and he's not stupid...
630
00:52:34,693 -- 00:52:37,779
...he'll know by now he's got at least
a brigade in front of him.
631
00:52:37,947 -- 00:52:40,156
He won't wait
to get his whole division in line.
632
00:52:40,324 -- 00:52:41,908
That would take half the morning.
633
00:52:42,076 -- 00:52:44,744
He don't need his whole division.
634
00:52:45,996 -- 00:52:47,372
That's right.
635
00:52:47,540 -- 00:52:50,750
Does Devin report any activity on his front
over to the right?
636
00:52:50,918 -- 00:52:53,044
-No, sir. Not a lick.
BUFORD: All right.
637
00:52:53,546 -- 00:52:56,256
I'll have Devin leave his cover
and withdraw his boys...
638
00:52:56,423 -- 00:53:00,093
...and have them move in alongside you,
lengthening your line.
639
00:53:00,261 -- 00:53:03,179
When Heth gets back,
he'll run into two brigades.
640
00:53:03,347 -- 00:53:05,807
That ought to hold him
until Reynolds gets here.
641
00:53:05,975 -- 00:53:07,433
Right, sir.
642
00:53:11,522 -- 00:53:16,317
Damn sure glad the rain is gone.
Don't want anything to slow up Reynolds.
643
00:53:20,489 -- 00:53:22,156
Take care of yourself, colonel.
644
00:53:23,117 -- 00:53:25,910
Don't worry about me, sir.
I'm the soul of caution.
645
00:53:28,289 -- 00:53:32,500
[MARCHING BAND
PLAYING "DI%IE"]
646
00:53:32,668 -- 00:53:35,211
[PEOPLE YELLING INDISTINCTLY
AND CHEERING]
647
00:54:20,341 -- 00:54:21,841
SOLDIER:
Fire!
648
00:54:24,762 -- 00:54:27,305
OFFICER:
Move! Fall back!
649
00:54:49,286 -- 00:54:53,164
[SOLDIERS YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
650
00:55:12,935 -- 00:55:15,436
That flank.... Hold it!
651
00:55:15,604 -- 00:55:18,064
OFFICER:
Stand fast, keep up your fire!
652
00:55:18,232 -- 00:55:22,360
Keep up your fire!
Pour it into them, boys! Pour it into them!
653
00:55:22,528 -- 00:55:23,820
Keep up your fire!
654
00:55:34,373 -- 00:55:35,581
AIDE:
Gamble's down, sir.
655
00:55:35,749 -- 00:55:38,084
Colonel Gamble, but he's not hurt bad, sir.
656
00:55:38,252 -- 00:55:40,378
[CANNONS CONTINUE FIRING]
657
00:55:45,467 -- 00:55:48,261
GAMBLE:
I'm all right, I m all right.
658
00:55:49,555 -- 00:55:51,097
It was close, that's all.
659
00:56:00,941 -- 00:56:03,985
DEVIN'S AIDE: Col. Devin's compliments.
No problem on the right.
660
00:56:04,153 -- 00:56:06,738
They came up close,
but we put in the reserve.
661
00:56:06,905 -- 00:56:08,448
We didn't put it all in, sir.
662
00:56:08,615 -- 00:56:10,616
Wishes to know
if you have further orders.
663
00:56:10,784 -- 00:56:13,619
Tell Devin all reserve forward, now.
664
00:56:23,922 -- 00:56:25,965
DEVIN:
Keep up your fire!
665
00:56:28,719 -- 00:56:30,470
OFFICER:
Fire!
666
00:56:31,764 -- 00:56:32,930
Fire!
667
00:56:47,696 -- 00:56:49,363
[HORSE NEIGHS]
668
00:57:28,987 -- 00:57:31,405
Sir, it's General Reynolds.
669
00:57:44,920 -- 00:57:46,546
BUFORD:
Thank God.
670
00:57:55,681 -- 00:57:56,848
REYNOLDS:
What goes, John?
671
00:57:57,015 -- 00:57:58,766
There's the devil to pay!
672
00:57:58,934 -- 00:58:01,686
-Can you hold?
BUFORD: I reckon I can.
673
00:58:04,606 -- 00:58:08,901
Captain, ride as fast as you can
to General Meade.
674
00:58:09,069 -- 00:58:11,571
Tell him the enemy is advancing
in strong force.
675
00:58:11,738 -- 00:58:14,448
I'm afraid they'll get to the heights
beyond the town before we will.
676
00:58:14,616 -- 00:58:18,703
We'll fight them here, inch by inch,
through the town if necessary.
677
00:58:18,871 -- 00:58:20,288
-Yes, sir.
-Lieutenant.
678
00:58:20,455 -- 00:58:25,126
Go into town, tell the people to stay in
off of the streets, especially children.
679
00:58:25,294 -- 00:58:28,880
There's liable to be
a fair-sized dispute here today.
680
00:58:30,215 -- 00:58:32,967
Joe, how can you see anything
with those things on?
681
00:58:56,116 -- 00:58:58,951
General. Damn glad to see you.
682
00:58:59,119 -- 00:59:02,413
First corps is coming up.
The 11th is right behind it.
683
00:59:02,581 -- 00:59:05,082
-Good job, John.
-Thank you.
684
00:59:05,250 -- 00:59:07,668
I don't think they knew until now
what they were up against.
685
00:59:07,836 -- 00:59:10,296
Now that you're here,
they still don't know.
686
00:59:10,464 -- 00:59:12,840
Well, they'll be coming back.
Very good.
687
00:59:13,008 -- 00:59:16,093
Heth'll come in here thinking he's up
against two tired cavalry brigades.
688
00:59:16,261 -- 00:59:19,138
Instead he'll be hitting two corps
of fresh Union infantry.
689
00:59:19,306 -- 00:59:21,557
Yes, sir. Poor Harry.
690
00:59:21,725 -- 00:59:23,809
You can pull your boys out
as soon as we set up.
691
00:59:23,977 -- 00:59:27,480
Put them out on my flanks.
Good cavalry on both flanks.
692
00:59:27,648 -- 00:59:31,984
Yes, sir. Well, John, most of my life
I've been leery...
693
00:59:32,152 -- 00:59:33,903
...about the appearance
of high command.
694
00:59:35,280 -- 00:59:37,823
But, John, I sure am glad to see you.
695
00:59:39,159 -- 00:59:42,078
Gentlemen, place the troops.
696
00:59:51,338 -- 00:59:52,672
REYNOLDS:
Now, John...
697
00:59:52,839 -- 00:59:55,883
...Heth probably has 10,000 men
coming down that road, wouldn't you say?
698
00:59:56,051 -- 00:59:58,135
BUFORD: Yes, sir.
But there'll be more behind him.
699
00:59:58,303 -- 01:00:02,265
REYNOLDS: We can put almost 20,000
in the field. We're in good shape, I think.
700
01:00:02,432 -- 01:00:04,016
BUFORD:
For a while, sir.
701
01:00:04,184 -- 01:00:08,980
I'm sending messages to all commanders
to come here with all possible speed.
702
01:00:13,694 -- 01:00:15,736
It's lovely ground.
703
01:00:17,197 -- 01:00:19,907
BUFORD:
I thought so, sir.
704
01:00:21,034 -- 01:00:24,203
Now let's go surprise Harry Heth.
705
01:00:37,592 -- 01:00:39,302
LEE:
Come on.
706
01:00:44,391 -- 01:00:46,726
-General Heth.
HETH: Sir. I beg to report.
707
01:00:46,935 -- 01:00:48,227
LEE:
Yes.
708
01:00:48,395 -- 01:00:50,813
HETH: Very strange, sir.
The situation is very confused.
709
01:00:50,981 -- 01:00:52,189
LEE:
What happened?
710
01:00:52,357 -- 01:00:54,734
I moved in this morning, as directed.
711
01:00:55,027 -- 01:00:58,988
I thought it was only a few militia,
but it was dismounted cavalry, sir.
712
01:00:59,156 -- 01:01:02,491
There weren't all that many,
and the boys wouldn't hold back.
713
01:01:02,659 -- 01:01:05,411
I thought we shouldn't be stopped
by a few dismounted cavalry...
714
01:01:05,579 -- 01:01:07,288
...but they made a good fight.
715
01:01:07,456 -- 01:01:09,915
They really put up a scrap, sir.
716
01:01:10,083 -- 01:01:11,417
Go on, general.
717
01:01:11,585 -- 01:01:13,878
HETH:
Well, sir, they wouldn't leave.
718
01:01:14,046 -- 01:01:15,713
My boys got their dander up.
719
01:01:15,881 -- 01:01:18,257
We deployed the whole division
and went after them.
720
01:01:18,425 -- 01:01:21,052
We just about had them running
then all of a sudden...
721
01:01:21,219 -- 01:01:22,762
...they got infantry support.
722
01:01:22,929 -- 01:01:24,263
We got pushed back.
723
01:01:24,431 -- 01:01:29,268
Then we re-formed and tried again.
We couldn't just leave it to them, sir.
724
01:01:29,436 -- 01:01:32,772
Now there's more Yankee infantry coming.
I don't know how many.
725
01:01:32,939 -- 01:01:34,982
But I don't know
what else we could've done.
726
01:01:35,150 -- 01:01:37,401
It started as a minor scrap
with a few militia.
727
01:01:37,569 -- 01:01:41,238
The next thing I know,
I'm tangling with half the Union army.
728
01:01:41,782 -- 01:01:45,534
Things will get out of control, Mr. Heth.
That is why we have orders.
729
01:01:45,702 -- 01:01:48,412
-Is it possible you misunderstood?
HETH: No, sir.
730
01:01:48,580 -- 01:01:50,247
Can you identify those people?
731
01:01:50,415 -- 01:01:52,666
The infantry is the First Corps,
the Black Hats.
732
01:01:52,834 -- 01:01:55,795
There's another corps coming
that we haven't identified.
733
01:01:55,962 -- 01:01:58,547
I must have all possible information
on enemy strength.
734
01:01:58,715 -- 01:02:02,760
Major Taylor, I want you to ride forward
to the highest position and observe.
735
01:02:02,928 -- 01:02:04,929
-And do be careful.
-Yes, sir. Hyah!
736
01:02:05,097 -- 01:02:06,972
-Sir, shall I attack?
LEE: No, sir.
737
01:02:07,140 -- 01:02:08,808
We are not ready for full engagement.
738
01:02:08,975 -- 01:02:10,851
General Longstreet is not up
with his corps.
739
01:02:11,019 -- 01:02:12,812
HETH:
Sir, the enemy is disorganized.
740
01:02:13,021 -- 01:02:16,607
If we throw all our forces in the field,
we will have the advantage.
741
01:02:16,775 -- 01:02:17,858
[CANNONS FIRING]
742
01:02:18,026 -- 01:02:19,777
Is that our artillery?
743
01:02:19,945 -- 01:02:21,028
Yes, sir.
744
01:02:21,196 -- 01:02:23,322
I can't imagine what has happened
to General Stuart.
745
01:02:23,490 -- 01:02:25,825
-I've heard nothing. Do you understand?
-Yes, sir.
746
01:02:25,992 -- 01:02:30,663
I have no idea of what lies in front of me.
It may be the entire Federal army.
747
01:02:51,351 -- 01:02:53,853
LIEUTENANT: Sir, compliments
of Colonel Babbit.
748
01:02:54,187 -- 01:02:57,273
Rebels are coming from the north.
Your instructions, sir?
749
01:02:57,441 -- 01:02:59,984
That'll be Ewell s corps.
They're trying to flank us.
750
01:03:00,193 -- 01:03:02,862
We got to meet them
and force them to go on line.
751
01:03:03,155 -- 01:03:05,990
Tell Colonel Devin to get up that way
as quick as he can.
752
01:03:06,158 -- 01:03:10,202
We'll get Gamble's boys back in the saddle
and be there shortly.
753
01:03:14,791 -- 01:03:17,460
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING
INDISTINCTLY]
754
01:03:32,392 -- 01:03:34,727
RODES' AIDE: Gen. Rodes
has encountered Yankee cavalry.
755
01:03:34,895 -- 01:03:36,353
Buford's brigades.
756
01:03:36,521 -- 01:03:40,065
General Early's right behind him
and will be on the field within the hour.
757
01:03:43,653 -- 01:03:47,740
LEE: General Early may be attacked
by half the Federal army within the hour.
758
01:03:47,908 -- 01:03:50,910
-Is that Pender's artillery?
HETH: Yes, sir. He's up now.
759
01:03:51,077 -- 01:03:54,663
Four batteries in position
with two more in reserve.
760
01:03:54,831 -- 01:03:59,210
With General Rodes attacking up there
and Pender and I, we have three divisions.
761
01:03:59,377 -- 01:04:01,212
We could sweep them.
762
01:04:01,379 -- 01:04:02,463
TAYLOR:
General, sir.
763
01:04:02,631 -- 01:04:05,382
I saw only two Federal corps.
First and Eleventh.
764
01:04:05,550 -- 01:04:09,803
And, General, I saw Early's lead columns
coming down north of Rodes' lines.
765
01:04:09,971 -- 01:04:11,764
He'll be engaged any minute, sir.
766
01:04:11,932 -- 01:04:15,935
Sir, we got 20,000 infantry coming
down almost behind the Union lines.
767
01:04:16,102 -- 01:04:18,354
It's perfect, sir.
768
01:04:18,522 -- 01:04:20,439
God's will.
769
01:04:21,566 -- 01:04:25,110
Gentlemen, it would appear
the fight is already underway.
770
01:04:25,278 -- 01:04:27,196
General Heth, you may attack, sir.
771
01:04:27,364 -- 01:04:30,449
My orders to all commanders: attack.
772
01:04:31,785 -- 01:04:34,870
[MARCHING BAND PLAYING]
773
01:05:00,981 -- 01:05:03,816
OFFICER 1: Fire!
OFFICER 2: Fire!
774
01:05:51,698 -- 01:05:54,617
Forward men, final brigade forward!
775
01:05:54,784 -- 01:05:57,494
[YELLING]
776
01:06:00,707 -- 01:06:03,292
Drive those fellas out of that wood!
777
01:06:13,386 -- 01:06:15,846
Forward! For God's sake, forward!
778
01:06:44,250 -- 01:06:45,918
He's dead.
779
01:07:04,562 -- 01:07:09,108
TOM: One thing about this brigade
is we got our own special bugle call.
780
01:07:09,275 -- 01:07:11,068
Ever hear tell of Dan Butterfield?
781
01:07:11,236 -- 01:07:13,445
What, General Butterfield?
What was with Hooker?
782
01:07:13,613 -- 01:07:15,364
That's the same fellow.
783
01:07:15,532 -- 01:07:18,659
-He used to be our brigade commander.
-Yeah, he was a pistol.
784
01:07:18,827 -- 01:07:22,454
-No man like him for having a good time.
-I don't know about that.
785
01:07:22,622 -- 01:07:25,374
But I know he used to like
to write bugle calls.
786
01:07:25,542 -- 01:07:28,085
The problem with this army is,
we got too many calls.
787
01:07:28,253 -- 01:07:32,506
We got a call for artillery, infantry,
get up and eat, retreat.
788
01:07:32,674 -- 01:07:36,468
Anyway, old Butterfield, he wrote
a special call for this here brigade.
789
01:07:36,636 -- 01:07:39,304
Say there is an order for this brigade,
you and me.
790
01:07:39,472 -- 01:07:43,267
He'll be blowing his bugle, we will think
that order's for us when it wasn't.
791
01:07:43,435 -- 01:07:47,396
We'll follow that order anyway,
then we'll be in a world of hurt.
792
01:07:47,564 -- 01:07:49,815
Yeah, that happened to me once.
Us, that is.
793
01:07:49,983 -- 01:07:52,484
Half the regiment charged,
the other half retreated.
794
01:07:52,652 -- 01:07:54,111
You had your choice.
795
01:07:55,155 -- 01:07:57,322
This here brigade got a special call.
796
01:07:57,490 -- 01:08:00,409
You hear that call,
you know the next one is for you.
797
01:08:00,577 -- 01:08:02,035
It goes like this.
798
01:08:03,329 -- 01:08:06,999
[TOM HUMMING BUGLE CALL]
799
01:08:08,001 -- 01:08:09,668
See, the call s like "Dan Butterfield."
800
01:08:09,836 -- 01:08:12,296
[SINGING BUGLE CALL]
801
01:08:13,840 -- 01:08:16,425
In the middle of a fight,
I'm supposed to remember that?
802
01:08:16,593 -- 01:08:18,844
You can remember that.
That's easy to remember.
803
01:08:19,012 -- 01:08:22,347
[SINGING BUGLE CALL]
804
01:08:24,017 -- 01:08:26,810
Butterfield, he wrote a lot
of bugle calls.
805
01:08:26,978 -- 01:08:28,729
You ever hear "Butterfield's Lullaby"?
806
01:08:28,897 -- 01:08:30,731
Butterfield's what?
807
01:08:30,899 -- 01:08:34,067
[HUMMING "TAPS"]
808
01:08:38,615 -- 01:08:40,032
Colonel, sir.
809
01:08:40,700 -- 01:08:42,451
Begging the colonel s pardon.
810
01:08:43,036 -- 01:08:47,247
But would the colonel please do us a favor
and get back on the damned horse?
811
01:08:47,832 -- 01:08:51,543
I'll tell you, sir,
it's not easy handling these new recruits...
812
01:08:51,711 -- 01:08:55,547
...when the officers act
like they ain't got any sense, sir.
813
01:08:55,715 -- 01:08:57,549
MAN:
Make way, make way!
814
01:08:57,717 -- 01:08:59,092
Lawrence, sir.
815
01:08:59,260 -- 01:09:00,302
[BUGLE BLOWING]
816
01:09:00,470 -- 01:09:02,721
We've gone over 20 miles today.
817
01:09:02,889 -- 01:09:06,183
We've gone over 100 miles
in five days, sir.
818
01:09:06,351 -- 01:09:08,185
[MAN YELLS INDISTINCTLY]
819
01:09:08,353 -- 01:09:10,145
There's something going on.
820
01:09:17,320 -- 01:09:19,446
LAWRENCE: Col. Vincent, sir.
-Chamberlain.
821
01:09:19,614 -- 01:09:21,698
Far cry from Bowdoin College,
isn't it?
822
01:09:21,866 -- 01:09:23,450
No farther than Harvard Yard.
823
01:09:23,618 -- 01:09:28,288
Indeed. With luck, we'll both see
our alma maters again.
824
01:09:28,456 -- 01:09:31,875
In the meantime, colonel, you move
your boys along as best you can.
825
01:09:32,043 -- 01:09:34,211
Two corps have engaged at Gettysburg.
826
01:09:34,379 -- 01:09:37,214
So we'll keep going through dark
and on until we get there.
827
01:09:37,382 -- 01:09:40,300
-Yes, sir.
-Godspeed.
828
01:09:48,059 -- 01:09:49,685
[CANNONS FIRING]
829
01:09:58,278 -- 01:10:00,737
OFFICER:
Battery, fire!
830
01:10:33,146 -- 01:10:35,022
[SOLDIERS YELLING]
831
01:10:51,289 -- 01:10:54,082
They're running! They're running!
832
01:11:01,174 -- 01:11:04,259
General Pender begs to report
that the enemy is falling back.
833
01:11:04,427 -- 01:11:06,470
-They're on the run.
-Very well.
834
01:11:08,848 -- 01:11:11,141
General Early
says the enemy's caved in...
835
01:11:11,309 -- 01:11:13,352
...on the left flank,
going back to Gettysburg.
836
01:11:13,519 -- 01:11:16,396
-They're all running.
-Very well. Thank you.
837
01:11:16,564 -- 01:11:18,732
Find General Hill s chief of artillery.
838
01:11:18,900 -- 01:11:21,944
Tell him I want fire placed on that hill.
As much fire as possible.
839
01:11:22,111 -- 01:11:23,695
-Yes, sir.
-Very well.
840
01:11:29,202 -- 01:11:30,702
-Major Taylor.
-Yes, sir.
841
01:11:30,870 -- 01:11:32,496
Deliver this message in person.
842
01:11:32,664 -- 01:11:35,999
Tell General Ewell the Federal troops
are withdrawing in confusion.
843
01:11:36,167 -- 01:11:39,378
We must only push those people
in order to gain the heights.
844
01:11:39,921 -- 01:11:43,298
Tell him to take that hill, if practical.
The one beyond the town.
845
01:11:43,466 -- 01:11:45,217
-Do you understand?
-Yes, sir.
846
01:11:45,385 -- 01:11:46,885
LEE: Very well.
-Hyah!
847
01:11:57,438 -- 01:11:58,981
Congratulations, general.
848
01:11:59,148 -- 01:12:00,399
I want you to see this.
849
01:12:00,566 -- 01:12:02,734
OFFICER: It's like second Manassas
all over again.
850
01:12:02,902 -- 01:12:04,903
Couldn't have worked better
if we'd planned it.
851
01:12:05,071 -- 01:12:08,740
If we can take that hill,
I want it occupied by nightfall.
852
01:12:08,908 -- 01:12:11,952
Sir, the Federal army has fallen back
through Gettysburg.
853
01:12:12,245 -- 01:12:14,579
They're reforming on the ridges
outside of town.
854
01:12:14,747 -- 01:12:15,789
Very well.
855
01:12:16,708 -- 01:12:19,876
This is almost perfect.
We got them where we want them.
856
01:12:20,044 -- 01:12:22,796
Let's move south and east,
get between them and Lincoln...
857
01:12:22,964 -- 01:12:24,381
...find some high ground...
858
01:12:24,549 -- 01:12:26,133
...and they'll have to hit us.
859
01:12:26,300 -- 01:12:28,343
Then we have them, general.
860
01:12:28,511 -- 01:12:30,387
You mean disengage?
861
01:12:30,555 -- 01:12:32,514
I've always been under the impression...
862
01:12:32,682 -- 01:12:36,601
...that it was our strategy to conduct
a defensive campaign wherever possible...
863
01:12:36,769 -- 01:12:38,353
...in order to keep the army intact.
864
01:12:38,521 -- 01:12:41,314
Granted, but the situation has changed.
865
01:12:41,482 -- 01:12:43,734
-How?
LEE: We already pushed them back.
866
01:12:43,901 -- 01:12:45,777
They're on the run, vacating the town.
867
01:12:45,945 -- 01:12:48,989
How can we move off
in the face of the enemy?
868
01:12:49,157 -- 01:12:50,866
-Major Marshall?
MARSHALL: Yes, sir.
869
01:12:51,034 -- 01:12:53,785
I ordered firing on that hill,
but no cannons are firing.
870
01:12:53,953 -- 01:12:56,288
-Send over and find out why.
-I'll see to it, sir.
871
01:12:56,456 -- 01:12:57,998
Thank you.
872
01:13:01,836 -- 01:13:04,254
What are you thinking, general?
873
01:13:06,174 -- 01:13:07,966
Maybe we should not have fought here.
874
01:13:08,134 -- 01:13:11,803
I know that. But we have prevailed.
The men have prevailed.
875
01:13:11,971 -- 01:13:13,513
LONGSTREET:
They've always done that.
876
01:13:13,681 -- 01:13:16,308
But in the morning,
we may be outnumbered...
877
01:13:16,476 -- 01:13:19,853
...and they'll be entrenched
on the high ground.
878
01:13:20,021 -- 01:13:23,482
You know as well as I, we've never been
concerned with being outnumbered.
879
01:13:23,649 -- 01:13:25,484
LONGSTREET:
That is true. You are right.
880
01:13:25,651 -- 01:13:28,445
If we move south to Washington,
they have to pursue us.
881
01:13:28,613 -- 01:13:30,864
Then we can fight on ground
of our choosing.
882
01:13:31,032 -- 01:13:32,783
But the enemy is here.
883
01:13:32,950 -- 01:13:35,494
We did not want the fight,
but the fight is here.
884
01:13:35,661 -- 01:13:40,082
How can I ask this army to retreat
in the face of what they've done this day?
885
01:13:40,249 -- 01:13:42,709
Not retreat, sir. Re-deploy.
886
01:13:42,877 -- 01:13:46,797
Our guns will move them off that hill
or Ewell will push them off.
887
01:13:46,964 -- 01:13:49,758
But if Meade is there tomorrow,
I can't move this army away.
888
01:13:49,926 -- 01:13:51,009
I will attack him.
889
01:13:51,177 -- 01:13:54,805
If Meade is up there tomorrow,
it is because he wants us to attack him.
890
01:13:54,972 -- 01:13:58,433
We pushed back two corps,
but there are five more coming.
891
01:14:03,439 -- 01:14:05,899
General, I will bring up my boys
as soon as I can.
892
01:14:06,067 -- 01:14:07,567
Very well.
893
01:14:07,735 -- 01:14:09,361
-General?
-Sir?
894
01:14:09,529 -- 01:14:12,072
Your man Harrison, the actor,
he was quite correct.
895
01:14:12,240 -- 01:14:16,535
Had it not been for him, this entire army
might have been destroyed in detail.
896
01:14:16,702 -- 01:14:20,122
The Federal force might've been here
waiting when we turned around.
897
01:14:20,289 -- 01:14:22,749
I'm deeply grateful to you, sir.
898
01:14:55,950 -- 01:14:57,576
TOM:
Hello, men.
899
01:14:58,619 -- 01:15:00,787
What outfit are you with?
900
01:15:00,955 -- 01:15:03,123
Archer's brigade, Heth's division.
901
01:15:03,291 -- 01:15:05,667
TOM: Where you from?
PRISONER: Tennessee.
902
01:15:05,835 -- 01:15:06,918
How about you?
903
01:15:07,086 -- 01:15:08,920
Maine.
904
01:15:09,088 -- 01:15:10,797
I've never been to Tennessee.
905
01:15:10,965 -- 01:15:12,883
I reckon I've never been to Maine neither.
906
01:15:15,136 -- 01:15:17,679
I don't mean no disrespect
to you fighting men...
907
01:15:18,931 -- 01:15:23,602
...but sometimes I can't help but figure,
why are you fighting this war?
908
01:15:23,769 -- 01:15:25,187
Why are you fighting it?
909
01:15:25,354 -- 01:15:29,149
To free the slaves, of course.
And to preserve the Union.
910
01:15:29,317 -- 01:15:33,778
I don't know about other folk,
but I ain't fighting for no darkies.
911
01:15:33,946 -- 01:15:35,488
I'm fighting for my rights.
912
01:15:35,656 -- 01:15:37,532
That's what we're all fighting for.
913
01:15:37,700 -- 01:15:39,868
-For your what?
-For our rights.
914
01:15:41,996 -- 01:15:44,956
Why can't you folks live
the way you want to live...
915
01:15:45,124 -- 01:15:46,917
...and let us live the way we do?
916
01:15:48,002 -- 01:15:50,921
"Live and let live," I hear some folks say.
917
01:15:52,715 -- 01:15:56,384
Be a mite less fuss and bother
if more folks took it to heart.
918
01:15:58,471 -- 01:16:00,180
Where'd you get captured?
919
01:16:00,348 -- 01:16:02,599
PRISONER: Railroad cut
west of Gettysburg town.
920
01:16:02,767 -- 01:16:04,851
It wasn't a pretty sight.
921
01:16:06,354 -- 01:16:09,314
Many a good boy lost
a young and promising life.
922
01:16:10,858 -- 01:16:12,567
Some wore blue, some wore gray.
923
01:16:16,113 -- 01:16:18,448
Seen enough of this war?
924
01:16:19,200 -- 01:16:20,825
I guess I have.
925
01:16:21,744 -- 01:16:23,495
I guess I have too.
926
01:16:24,372 -- 01:16:26,957
It looks like
I'll be sitting out the rest of it.
927
01:16:30,670 -- 01:16:32,420
I appreciate you talking to me.
928
01:16:33,464 -- 01:16:35,006
See you in hell, Billy Yank.
929
01:16:36,550 -- 01:16:39,010
See you in hell, Johnny Reb.
930
01:16:47,979 -- 01:16:49,688
KILRAIN:
I have found a John Henry, sir.
931
01:16:49,855 -- 01:16:51,022
LAWRENCE:
John who?
932
01:16:51,190 -- 01:16:55,527
KILRAIN: A John Henry, sir. A runaway.
I heard him a-groaning.
933
01:17:08,374 -- 01:17:09,541
Is he wounded?
934
01:17:09,709 -- 01:17:11,793
Don't know for sure.
935
01:17:17,758 -- 01:17:19,175
The man's exhausted.
936
01:17:19,343 -- 01:17:22,887
We'll get him something to eat.
The surgeon's on the way.
937
01:17:24,181 -- 01:17:27,309
-Did you get his name?
-He said something I couldn't understand.
938
01:17:27,476 -- 01:17:29,978
I can't understand anyone
south of Mason-Dixon.
939
01:17:30,146 -- 01:17:31,855
Rebs or darkies.
940
01:17:42,325 -- 01:17:45,952
All right, men, as you were.
Surgeon, see to him.
941
01:17:56,422 -- 01:17:59,007
LAWRENCE: We had visitors
from the South before the war.
942
01:17:59,175 -- 01:18:03,261
They were always very polite, academic,
you understand.
943
01:18:03,804 -- 01:18:07,015
We stayed off the question of slavery
out of courtesy.
944
01:18:07,183 -- 01:18:10,393
But toward the end there was
no getting away from it...
945
01:18:10,561 -- 01:18:14,939
...and yet I could never understand.
I don't now.
946
01:18:15,107 -- 01:18:17,484
I don't know why.
947
01:18:19,653 -- 01:18:21,613
They fight so well.
948
01:18:29,163 -- 01:18:30,955
Tell me something, Buster...
949
01:18:32,416 -- 01:18:34,793
...what do you think of Negroes?
950
01:18:37,171 -- 01:18:39,672
Well, if you mean the race...
951
01:18:40,800 -- 01:18:42,217
...I don't really know.
952
01:18:43,135 -- 01:18:45,261
This is not a thing to be ashamed of.
953
01:18:45,429 -- 01:18:50,141
The thing is, you cannot judge a race.
954
01:18:50,309 -- 01:18:54,145
Any man who judges by the group
is a pea-wit.
955
01:18:54,313 -- 01:18:57,232
You take men one at a time.
956
01:18:57,400 -- 01:18:59,734
To me, there was never any difference.
957
01:19:00,444 -- 01:19:02,529
-None at all?
-None at all.
958
01:19:02,696 -- 01:19:04,906
Of course, I haven't known
that many freed men...
959
01:19:05,074 -- 01:19:08,493
...but those I knew in Bangor, Portland...
960
01:19:09,620 -- 01:19:12,539
...you look in the eye, there was a man.
961
01:19:13,207 -- 01:19:16,167
There was a "divine spark,"
as my mother used to call it.
962
01:19:16,335 -- 01:19:17,877
That's all there is to it.
963
01:19:18,045 -- 01:19:20,338
Races are men.
964
01:19:21,924 -- 01:19:24,342
"What a piece of work is man.
965
01:19:24,510 -- 01:19:28,054
How infinite in faculties,
in form and moving...
966
01:19:28,222 -- 01:19:30,765
...how eEpress and admirable.
967
01:19:32,560 -- 01:19:34,936
In action, how like an angel."
968
01:19:38,107 -- 01:19:40,859
Well, if he's an angel, all right then...
969
01:19:42,236 -- 01:19:44,904
...but he damn well must be a killer angel.
970
01:19:49,910 -- 01:19:53,830
Colonel, darling, you're a lovely man.
971
01:19:53,998 -- 01:19:59,210
I see a great vast difference between us,
yet I admire you, lad.
972
01:19:59,920 -- 01:20:03,047
You're an idealist, praise be.
973
01:20:04,758 -- 01:20:06,551
The truth is, colonel...
974
01:20:07,887 -- 01:20:10,722
...there is no "divine spark."
975
01:20:11,557 -- 01:20:16,311
There's many a man alive no more of value
than a dead dog. Believe me.
976
01:20:16,479 -- 01:20:21,065
When you've seen them hang each other
the way I have back in the Old Country.
977
01:20:21,984 -- 01:20:23,443
Equality?
978
01:20:23,611 -- 01:20:28,364
What I m fighting for is the right to prove
I'm a better man than many of them.
979
01:20:28,532 -- 01:20:34,245
Where have you seen this "divine spark"
in operation, colonel?
980
01:20:34,413 -- 01:20:37,957
Where have you noted
this magnificent equality?
981
01:20:39,126 -- 01:20:42,212
No two things on earth are equal
or have an equal chance.
982
01:20:42,379 -- 01:20:44,797
Not a leaf, not a tree.
983
01:20:46,550 -- 01:20:50,053
There's many a man worse than me
and some better...
984
01:20:50,221 -- 01:20:54,057
...but I don't think race or country
matters a damn.
985
01:20:55,518 -- 01:20:58,019
What matters, colonel...
986
01:21:00,356 -- 01:21:01,564
...is justice.
987
01:21:07,696 -- 01:21:10,114
Which is why I'm here.
988
01:21:10,282 -- 01:21:13,826
I'll be treated as I deserve...
989
01:21:13,994 -- 01:21:17,163
...not as my father deserved.
990
01:21:19,124 -- 01:21:20,583
I'm Kilrain...
991
01:21:21,252 -- 01:21:24,629
...and I damn all gentlemen.
992
01:21:28,384 -- 01:21:31,177
There is only one aristocracy...
993
01:21:32,346 -- 01:21:36,349
...and that is right here.
994
01:21:43,524 -- 01:21:46,901
And that's why we've got to win this war.
995
01:21:59,665 -- 01:22:01,291
SOLDIER 1 :
Howdy.
996
01:22:01,458 -- 01:22:03,251
SOLDIER 2:
Howdy, general.
997
01:22:04,461 -- 01:22:07,547
PICKETT: Hello, my boys.
Virginia has arrived!
998
01:22:08,465 -- 01:22:10,633
[BANJO PLAYING]
999
01:22:16,515 -- 01:22:18,808
PICKETT: General Pickett presents
his compliments...
1000
01:22:18,976 -- 01:22:21,811
...and asks to parlerwith
the commanding general, s'il vous @lat.
1001
01:22:21,979 -- 01:22:23,187
[CHUCKLES]
1002
01:22:23,355 -- 01:22:24,606
Hey, George.
1003
01:22:25,983 -- 01:22:27,525
PICKETT:
General.
1004
01:22:32,656 -- 01:22:34,490
Good Lord, what is that smell?
1005
01:22:34,658 -- 01:22:37,243
That's me. Ain't it lovely?
1006
01:22:37,411 -- 01:22:39,454
He got it off a dead Frenchman.
1007
01:22:39,622 -- 01:22:41,372
-Good evening.
LONGSTREET: Hey, Lo.
1008
01:22:41,540 -- 01:22:44,042
PICKETT: I did not get it off
a dead Frenchman.
1009
01:22:44,209 -- 01:22:46,628
I bought it in a store
in Richmond with Sally.
1010
01:22:46,795 -- 01:22:49,464
It did have a French name,
but Miss Corbert likes it.
1011
01:22:49,632 -- 01:22:50,965
[LAUGHING]
1012
01:22:51,133 -- 01:22:53,217
-How are you, general?
-Good, Jim, good. How are you?
1013
01:22:53,385 -- 01:22:54,677
Real good.
1014
01:22:54,845 -- 01:22:56,304
Dick, how's it going?
1015
01:22:56,472 -- 01:22:58,056
Fine, John, just fine.
1016
01:22:58,223 -- 01:23:01,434
Good. Oh, listen, I am sorry to assign you
to old smelly George here...
1017
01:23:01,602 -- 01:23:04,771
...but I hear tell you have
a strong stomach.
1018
01:23:05,564 -- 01:23:07,357
General, I want you to know...
1019
01:23:07,524 -- 01:23:11,527
...how much I appreciate this opportunity
to be back in action again, sir.
1020
01:23:11,695 -- 01:23:14,405
Let it go, Dick. Let it go.
1021
01:23:15,407 -- 01:23:17,283
I consider it a damn fine piece of luck...
1022
01:23:17,451 -- 01:23:20,119
...to have a man of your caliber
attached to this command. I do.
1023
01:23:20,287 -- 01:23:24,082
Uh, general, sir.
Just exactly what do we have here?
1024
01:23:24,249 -- 01:23:25,667
LONGSTREET:
Oh. Excuse me.
1025
01:23:25,834 -- 01:23:28,795
Gentlemen? Colonel Fremantle?
1026
01:23:29,588 -- 01:23:32,382
Allow me to introduce
Major General George Pickett.
1027
01:23:32,549 -- 01:23:35,009
General Pickett,
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Fremantle...
1028
01:23:35,177 -- 01:23:38,930
...of Her Majesty's venerable
and elite Cold Stream Guards...
1029
01:23:39,098 -- 01:23:41,391
...Britain's military attach
to the Confederacy...
1030
01:23:41,558 -- 01:23:44,977
...and, you might say,
the eyes and ears of Queen Victoria.
1031
01:23:45,145 -- 01:23:48,940
Hardly, sir. I'm merely an observer
and your humble guest.
1032
01:23:49,858 -- 01:23:51,859
Sir...
1033
01:23:52,027 -- 01:23:54,362
...the fame of your regiment
has preceded you.
1034
01:23:55,406 -- 01:23:58,825
LONGSTREET: General Pickett here
is our ranking strategist.
1035
01:23:58,992 -- 01:24:03,955
The First Corps Army of Northern Virginia.
We refer all our deeper questions to him.
1036
01:24:04,123 -- 01:24:05,873
They do. They do indeed.
1037
01:24:06,041 -- 01:24:09,460
His record at West Point
is still the talk of both armies.
1038
01:24:09,628 -- 01:24:13,798
You know I consider it unbecoming
to a soldier, all this book learning.
1039
01:24:13,966 -- 01:24:17,009
-Book learning ain't for gentlemen, right?
-Nor that either.
1040
01:24:18,053 -- 01:24:20,805
He graduated last in his class. Dead last.
1041
01:24:20,973 -- 01:24:23,015
Quite a feat, considering his classmates.
1042
01:24:23,183 -- 01:24:25,017
[LAUGHING]
1043
01:24:25,728 -- 01:24:30,106
The Yankees got all the smart ones.
Look where it's got them.
1044
01:24:31,191 -- 01:24:33,359
Colonel, allow me
to present my commanders.
1045
01:24:33,527 -- 01:24:37,363
Each one of these chaps, as you might say,
commands a brigade of mine.
1046
01:24:37,531 -- 01:24:39,991
Now this fellow here, this is Lo Armistead.
1047
01:24:40,159 -- 01:24:42,785
Lo! That's short for Lothario.
1048
01:24:42,953 -- 01:24:44,454
The lover.
1049
01:24:44,621 -- 01:24:47,749
This here is Richard Brooke Garnett.
You'll pardon his limp.
1050
01:24:47,916 -- 01:24:50,168
He got kicked by his horse the other day.
1051
01:24:50,335 -- 01:24:52,044
That fellow there....
1052
01:24:52,212 -- 01:24:53,838
That's Jim Kemper.
1053
01:24:54,006 -- 01:24:56,507
You note the shifty eye,
the hand in the pocket.
1054
01:24:57,009 -- 01:24:59,135
He's not even a West Pointer,
so watch him.
1055
01:24:59,303 -- 01:25:02,513
He's a politician from Virginia.
Jimmy's only here for the votes.
1056
01:25:02,765 -- 01:25:04,807
KEMPER: I was Speaker of the House
in Virginia.
1057
01:25:04,975 -- 01:25:09,061
As a matter of fact, I d like to talk to you
about some political matters.
1058
01:25:09,229 -- 01:25:10,897
You know the queen, don't you?
1059
01:25:11,064 -- 01:25:14,692
What I need to know
and tell my folks back home is:
1060
01:25:14,860 -- 01:25:16,819
When are you going to do something...
1061
01:25:16,987 -- 01:25:19,614
...about that damn Yankee blockade
out there on the water?
1062
01:25:19,782 -- 01:25:21,240
Can you tell me something about that?
1063
01:25:21,408 -- 01:25:24,035
Time for some branch water. Come on.
1064
01:25:28,874 -- 01:25:31,000
General? Sir.
1065
01:25:32,544 -- 01:25:34,670
Might I have a few words?
1066
01:25:35,422 -- 01:25:38,341
Sure, George. Come on.
1067
01:25:42,262 -- 01:25:46,766
I must confess I m rather curious
about General Longstreet.
1068
01:25:46,934 -- 01:25:51,437
Up until tonight, he never seemed to
fraternize all that much.
1069
01:25:51,605 -- 01:25:54,649
Almost dour, one would have
to suggest.
1070
01:25:54,817 -- 01:25:58,986
Well, if I were you, colonel,
I'd count myself among the lucky.
1071
01:25:59,154 -- 01:26:04,033
He just happens to be about the best
damn poker player in this here man's army.
1072
01:26:04,201 -- 01:26:07,453
There was a time you'd have
to fight to keep him out of a game.
1073
01:26:07,621 -- 01:26:12,291
Scarlet fever hit Richmond last winter,
right at Christmastime.
1074
01:26:12,459 -- 01:26:15,795
General lost all three of his children
to it.
1075
01:26:15,963 -- 01:26:18,256
The youngest was 10.
1076
01:26:19,091 -- 01:26:21,634
Hasn't been quite the same since.
1077
01:26:24,054 -- 01:26:28,850
-Um.... The queen.
-To the queen.
1078
01:26:29,351 -- 01:26:31,310
Her majesty.
1079
01:26:34,940 -- 01:26:37,233
Well, see, you are looking fine.
1080
01:26:38,777 -- 01:26:41,070
Looking lovely yourself, George.
1081
01:26:41,238 -- 01:26:45,157
General. No reflection on you, sir...
1082
01:26:45,325 -- 01:26:47,743
...but you know, my division,
my Virginia boys...
1083
01:26:47,911 -- 01:26:50,705
...we haven't seen all that much action
for a long time.
1084
01:26:50,873 -- 01:26:53,624
I mean, well, we weren't that engaged
at Fredericksburg.
1085
01:26:53,792 -- 01:26:57,295
We missed Chancellorsville altogether.
Off on some piddling affair.
1086
01:26:57,462 -- 01:27:00,172
Now they took two of my brigades,
Corson, Jenkins, and sent them...
1087
01:27:00,340 -- 01:27:02,758
...off to guard Richmond.
I mean, Richmond of all places?
1088
01:27:02,926 -- 01:27:05,970
And now, sir, do you know where
I've been placed in the line of march?
1089
01:27:06,138 -- 01:27:09,932
Last, sir. That's where I am, eEactly last.
I'm bringing up the damn rear.
1090
01:27:10,100 -- 01:27:12,768
Beg pardon, sir.
You see, my boys...
1091
01:27:12,936 -- 01:27:16,147
...are beginning to feel a trifle disgusted
at this attitude towards them...
1092
01:27:16,315 -- 01:27:17,648
...as fighting men, sir. My boys--
1093
01:27:17,816 -- 01:27:18,858
-George.
-Sir.
1094
01:27:19,026 -- 01:27:21,777
-Please.
-I sure don't mean to imply you, sir.
1095
01:27:21,945 -- 01:27:23,446
No. Hell no, sir.
1096
01:27:23,614 -- 01:27:26,949
No, it's just, uh....
Well, the bureaucrats.
1097
01:27:27,117 -- 01:27:30,494
See, I was just-- I was hoping, sir,
that perhaps you could...
1098
01:27:30,662 -- 01:27:34,081
...talk to somebody about this
arrangement of the troops.
1099
01:27:34,625 -- 01:27:38,252
Would you like me to move the whole army
to the side so you can go first?
1100
01:27:38,420 -- 01:27:40,004
Sir?
1101
01:27:42,424 -- 01:27:44,967
Now that you mention it....
1102
01:27:45,135 -- 01:27:48,346
There is no plot, George.
It's just the way things fell out.
1103
01:27:48,513 -- 01:27:51,140
I mean, hell, look at it this way.
1104
01:27:51,308 -- 01:27:54,352
If the army has to turn around,
fight its way back...
1105
01:27:54,519 -- 01:27:56,938
...well, you'll be first in line.
1106
01:27:59,858 -- 01:28:02,985
Yes, I suppose that is true, isn't it?
1107
01:28:03,487 -- 01:28:05,154
You understand, sir.
1108
01:28:05,322 -- 01:28:07,865
That this whole damn war
might be over after one more battle...
1109
01:28:08,033 -- 01:28:10,117
...and my Virginia boys
will have missed most of it.
1110
01:28:10,285 -- 01:28:11,869
Yeah, I know.
1111
01:28:13,705 -- 01:28:14,997
How far back are they?
1112
01:28:15,165 -- 01:28:17,208
Chambersburg, a hard day's march, sir.
1113
01:28:17,376 -- 01:28:18,960
Mm-hm.
1114
01:28:19,127 -- 01:28:22,755
I know I can count on you, George,
when the time comes...
1115
01:28:22,923 -- 01:28:25,299
...and it will come. It will come.
1116
01:28:25,467 -- 01:28:28,719
Sorry to butt in, but they're calling
for George over at the poker table.
1117
01:28:28,887 -- 01:28:31,305
Your fame, sir, has preceded you.
1118
01:28:31,473 -- 01:28:34,684
Well, thank you, general.
1119
01:28:36,144 -- 01:28:40,147
Well, cheerio, fellas.
1120
01:28:41,733 -- 01:28:44,193
Don't forget to bring your money.
1121
01:28:46,029 -- 01:28:49,657
Have you heard any news of old Winfield?
1122
01:28:49,825 -- 01:28:52,201
Old Winnie boy?
1123
01:28:52,369 -- 01:28:55,287
Hancock? Oh, yeah.
1124
01:28:56,081 -- 01:28:58,249
Well, how's he doing?
1125
01:28:58,417 -- 01:29:01,085
-You're gonna find out.
-Yeah?
1126
01:29:02,421 -- 01:29:06,841
He's got the Second Corps.
Damn clover leaves.
1127
01:29:07,009 -- 01:29:10,803
He's headed this way. Probably run
into him in the neEt few days.
1128
01:29:15,058 -- 01:29:17,435
ARMISTEAD:
I wish I could see him again.
1129
01:29:18,270 -- 01:29:21,105
I haven't seen him since before the war.
1130
01:29:23,191 -- 01:29:25,317
Never thought it would last this long.
1131
01:29:26,236 -- 01:29:27,903
Me neither, Lo.
1132
01:29:28,447 -- 01:29:31,949
I sure would like to talk
to old Hancock again.
1133
01:29:32,117 -- 01:29:34,076
One more time.
1134
01:29:38,123 -- 01:29:39,373
Well, why not?
1135
01:29:41,460 -- 01:29:42,543
You wouldn't mind?
1136
01:29:42,711 -- 01:29:44,545
Hell, no.
1137
01:29:45,756 -- 01:29:47,590
I mean, really.
1138
01:29:47,758 -- 01:29:52,136
Do you think it would be proper?
You know, ethical?
1139
01:29:52,304 -- 01:29:55,681
Look, when the time comes,
and he's close...
1140
01:29:55,849 -- 01:29:59,727
...just send a messenger over
under a flag of truce and go on over.
1141
01:29:59,895 -- 01:30:01,896
Ain't nothing to it.
1142
01:30:02,898 -- 01:30:06,025
Last time I saw him was in California.
1143
01:30:06,193 -- 01:30:08,652
Right when the war was beginning...
1144
01:30:08,820 -- 01:30:13,407
...the night before we all left
to go fight against each other.
1145
01:30:13,575 -- 01:30:16,118
Old friends off to war.
1146
01:30:16,286 -- 01:30:19,246
-Hey, Lo.
-Hm?
1147
01:30:21,249 -- 01:30:23,542
-How's your brigade?
-Oh.
1148
01:30:23,710 -- 01:30:27,963
I've never seen troops anywhere
so ready for a brawl.
1149
01:30:28,673 -- 01:30:32,009
I've got to give the old man credit.
A lot of credit for that.
1150
01:30:32,177 -- 01:30:36,263
Who else could've held
this army together for so long?
1151
01:30:37,307 -- 01:30:39,975
Remember what they used to say
about him?
1152
01:30:40,143 -- 01:30:45,523
When he first took command?
They called him "Old Granny."
1153
01:30:46,650 -- 01:30:50,027
Lord, what damn fools we were.
1154
01:30:50,904 -- 01:30:53,656
Now when he passes...
1155
01:30:53,824 -- 01:30:58,494
...the boys hush as if they had seen
an angel of the Lord.
1156
01:31:00,205 -- 01:31:02,540
Have you ever seen anything like that?
1157
01:31:04,042 -- 01:31:06,836
No. I can't say I have.
1158
01:31:08,171 -- 01:31:10,214
It's amazing what one honest man can do.
1159
01:31:10,382 -- 01:31:14,385
Mm. One honest man and a cause.
1160
01:31:15,971 -- 01:31:19,348
I don't think on that too much anymore.
1161
01:31:20,809 -- 01:31:23,310
I guess my only cause is victory.
1162
01:31:23,478 -- 01:31:26,230
This war comes as a nightmare.
You pick your nightmare side.
1163
01:31:26,398 -- 01:31:28,524
Then you put your head down and win.
1164
01:31:28,692 -- 01:31:30,151
[LAUGHING]
1165
01:31:30,443 -- 01:31:32,570
Old gloomy Pete!
1166
01:31:32,821 -- 01:31:34,363
You see, colonel...
1167
01:31:34,531 -- 01:31:38,325
...the government derives its power
from the consent of the people.
1168
01:31:38,493 -- 01:31:40,578
Every government, everywhere.
1169
01:31:41,913 -- 01:31:44,498
Let me make this very plain to you, sir.
1170
01:31:44,666 -- 01:31:48,544
We do not consent
and we will never consent.
1171
01:31:48,712 -- 01:31:51,881
And what you've got to do is,
you've got to go back over there...
1172
01:31:52,048 -- 01:31:55,092
...to your Parliament and you've got
to make it very plain to them.
1173
01:31:55,260 -- 01:31:58,095
You've got to tell them
that what we're fighting for here...
1174
01:31:58,263 -- 01:32:02,391
...is the freedom from what we consider
to be the rule of a foreign power.
1175
01:32:02,559 -- 01:32:05,436
I mean, that's all we want.
That's what this war is all about.
1176
01:32:05,604 -- 01:32:06,770
-Jim.
-No, no, no.
1177
01:32:06,938 -- 01:32:10,149
Now, we established this country
in the first place...
1178
01:32:10,317 -- 01:32:12,484
...with very strong state governments...
1179
01:32:12,652 -- 01:32:14,904
...just for that very reason.
1180
01:32:15,071 -- 01:32:17,448
I mean, let me put it to you this way.
1181
01:32:17,616 -- 01:32:20,284
My home is in Virginia.
1182
01:32:20,452 -- 01:32:23,871
The government of my home is home.
1183
01:32:24,039 -- 01:32:26,498
Virginia would not allow itself
to be ruled...
1184
01:32:26,666 -- 01:32:29,501
...by some king over there in London.
1185
01:32:29,669 -- 01:32:33,464
It's not about to let itself be ruled
by some president in Washington.
1186
01:32:33,632 -- 01:32:37,134
Virginia, by God, sir,
is going to be run by Virginians.
1187
01:32:37,302 -- 01:32:39,345
Oh, my. The cause.
1188
01:32:39,512 -- 01:32:41,805
PICKETT:
Actually, I got a pair of kings.
1189
01:32:41,973 -- 01:32:43,265
And it's all for the Yankees.
1190
01:32:43,433 -- 01:32:45,392
The damn money-grubbing Yankees.
1191
01:32:45,560 -- 01:32:48,062
I mean, those damn fools,
they don't get the message.
1192
01:32:48,230 -- 01:32:50,689
Always the darkies.
Nothing but the darkies.
1193
01:32:50,857 -- 01:32:52,066
PICKETT:
You know, Jim....
1194
01:32:52,234 -- 01:32:54,485
Sit down. I think that my idea...
1195
01:32:54,653 -- 01:32:59,657
...my analogy of a gentlemen's club
is fair enough. It's clear enough.
1196
01:32:59,824 -- 01:33:01,492
Colonel, think on it now.
1197
01:33:01,660 -- 01:33:04,745
Suppose that we all joined a club,
a gentlemen's club.
1198
01:33:04,955 -- 01:33:08,666
After a time, several of the members
began to intrude themselves...
1199
01:33:08,833 -- 01:33:11,335
...into our private lives, our home lives.
1200
01:33:11,503 -- 01:33:14,171
Began telling us
what we could and couldn't do.
1201
01:33:14,339 -- 01:33:17,383
Well, then, wouldn't any one of us
have the right to resign?
1202
01:33:17,550 -- 01:33:20,177
I mean, just resign.
1203
01:33:20,345 -- 01:33:21,512
That's what we did.
1204
01:33:21,680 -- 01:33:26,725
That's what I did and now these people
are telling us we don't have that right.
1205
01:33:28,186 -- 01:33:30,062
[LAUGHING]
1206
01:33:30,230 -- 01:33:32,356
I got to hand it to you.
1207
01:33:32,524 -- 01:33:35,943
You certainly do have a talent
for trivializing the momentous...
1208
01:33:36,111 -- 01:33:38,195
...and complicating the obvious.
1209
01:33:38,363 -- 01:33:40,572
Have you ever considered
running for Congress?
1210
01:33:40,740 -- 01:33:43,409
No. It s a thought.
1211
01:33:47,205 -- 01:33:49,581
What does Colonel Fremantle think?
1212
01:33:49,749 -- 01:33:52,126
Will the British come in on our side?
1213
01:33:52,294 -- 01:33:57,715
Hell, yeah. They'll come in
when we don't need them no more.
1214
01:33:57,882 -- 01:34:01,677
Like some damn bank lending you money
when you're no longer in debt.
1215
01:34:01,845 -- 01:34:05,306
PICKETT: Look here, Mr. Speaker....
LONGSTREET: George.
1216
01:34:08,685 -- 01:34:10,352
A word?
1217
01:34:11,563 -- 01:34:13,314
Good night, colonel.
1218
01:34:13,481 -- 01:34:15,524
FREMANTLE:
See you later.
1219
01:34:19,571 -- 01:34:23,615
LONGSTREET: In the next few days,
we're going to have a hell of a fight here.
1220
01:34:23,783 -- 01:34:26,910
I want you to do everything necessary
to get your boys ready.
1221
01:34:27,120 -- 01:34:29,913
You can start bringing them up
by the first light.
1222
01:34:30,081 -- 01:34:32,374
I want you all in Gettysburg
by tomorrow night.
1223
01:34:32,542 -- 01:34:34,043
PICKETT:
Yes, sir.
1224
01:35:01,154 -- 01:35:02,946
GIBBON:
Good evening, John.
1225
01:35:03,114 -- 01:35:06,533
I'm surprised you could find headquarters
with all that confusion.
1226
01:35:08,078 -- 01:35:09,787
BUFORD:
There's an old Indian saying:
1227
01:35:09,954 -- 01:35:12,790
"Follow the cigar smoke
and find a fat man there."
1228
01:35:12,957 -- 01:35:14,208
[GIBBON LAUGHS]
1229
01:35:35,063 -- 01:35:36,271
BUFORD:
General Hancock.
1230
01:35:36,439 -- 01:35:37,648
How are you, John?
1231
01:35:37,816 -- 01:35:39,233
BUFORD:
I'm all right.
1232
01:35:39,401 -- 01:35:43,237
But the brigades are pretty shot up.
I need to get refitted.
1233
01:35:43,405 -- 01:35:48,117
HANCOCK: Right. I'll see to it.
We know what you did this morning.
1234
01:35:48,284 -- 01:35:50,494
That was
one hell of a piece of soldiering.
1235
01:35:50,662 -- 01:35:52,454
Thank you, sir.
1236
01:35:52,997 -- 01:35:56,125
Heard you were with John Reynolds
when he was killed.
1237
01:35:56,292 -- 01:35:58,836
I'm sending the body up
to his folks in Lancaster.
1238
01:35:59,003 -- 01:36:01,046
They might appreciate a note from you.
1239
01:36:01,214 -- 01:36:02,631
I'll send it.
1240
01:36:02,799 -- 01:36:03,882
[HANCOCK SIGHS]
1241
01:36:04,050 -- 01:36:05,968
He was a soldier.
1242
01:36:07,011 -- 01:36:09,138
And a good friend.
1243
01:36:10,098 -- 01:36:14,685
Three of us, Reynolds,
Lo Armistead and I came up together.
1244
01:36:14,853 -- 01:36:16,687
Mexican War.
1245
01:36:17,647 -- 01:36:18,856
California.
1246
01:36:19,816 -- 01:36:21,400
We stayed close.
1247
01:36:22,861 -- 01:36:26,530
I wonder how old Lo is doing.
If he's still alive.
1248
01:36:27,449 -- 01:36:29,700
Heard he had one of Pickett's brigades.
1249
01:36:29,868 -- 01:36:31,869
Under Longstreet.
1250
01:36:41,045 -- 01:36:42,713
Remarkable.
1251
01:36:45,675 -- 01:36:47,801
Just across the ridge, eh?
1252
01:36:49,512 -- 01:36:51,096
[SIGHS]
1253
01:36:51,264 -- 01:36:54,808
I'd like to see him again, but not here.
Not like this.
1254
01:36:55,894 -- 01:36:59,062
Well, maybe after the war, eh?
1255
01:37:04,652 -- 01:37:06,445
Where do you want me in the morning?
1256
01:37:06,613 -- 01:37:09,573
I want you to hold your position
on the extreme left.
1257
01:37:09,741 -- 01:37:11,492
Get some rest if you can.
1258
01:37:11,659 -- 01:37:13,577
We may need you in the morning.
1259
01:37:13,828 -- 01:37:17,039
Jeb Stuart's still on the prowl
out there someplace.
1260
01:37:17,916 -- 01:37:19,416
Yes, sir.
1261
01:37:57,372 -- 01:37:59,748
Well, General Reynolds...
1262
01:38:01,626 -- 01:38:04,086
...we held the high ground.
1263
01:38:20,645 -- 01:38:22,145
General Trimble is waiting.
1264
01:38:22,313 -- 01:38:24,106
-Will you see him?
LEE: Very well.
1265
01:38:24,274 -- 01:38:28,277
I want a scouting party sent out
posthaste to find General Stuart.
1266
01:38:28,444 -- 01:38:30,821
-Yes, sir. Right away.
LEE: Thank you.
1267
01:38:44,836 -- 01:38:46,670
LEE:
General Trimble.
1268
01:38:48,881 -- 01:38:52,926
Sir, I most respectfully request
another assignment.
1269
01:38:58,850 -- 01:39:01,268
Do please go on, general.
1270
01:39:01,436 -- 01:39:03,228
The man is a disgrace.
1271
01:39:03,396 -- 01:39:07,316
Sir, have you been listening at all
to what the aides have been telling you?
1272
01:39:07,525 -- 01:39:11,528
Ask General Gordon or General Ewell.
Ask them.
1273
01:39:12,530 -- 01:39:14,698
We could've taken that hill.
1274
01:39:14,866 -- 01:39:17,034
God in his wisdom knows
we should've taken it.
1275
01:39:17,201 -- 01:39:20,954
There was no one there at all
and it commanded the town.
1276
01:39:21,122 -- 01:39:24,374
General Gordon saw it.
I mean, he was with us.
1277
01:39:24,542 -- 01:39:27,878
Me and Ewell and Gordon...
1278
01:39:28,046 -- 01:39:34,635
...all standing in the dark like idiots
with that bloody damned hill empty.
1279
01:39:35,553 -- 01:39:37,220
I beg your pardon, general.
1280
01:39:38,723 -- 01:39:42,517
That bloody damned hill was bare
as his bloody damned head!
1281
01:39:42,685 -- 01:39:45,270
We all saw it, as God is my witness.
1282
01:39:45,438 -- 01:39:47,439
We were all there.
1283
01:39:47,607 -- 01:39:52,736
I said to him, "General Ewell,
we have got to take that hill."
1284
01:39:52,904 -- 01:39:55,822
General Jackson wouldn't have stopped
with them on the run...
1285
01:39:55,990 -- 01:39:58,200
...and plenty of light
on a hill like that empty.
1286
01:39:58,951 -- 01:40:00,994
God help us!
1287
01:40:01,746 -- 01:40:03,288
I don't know--
1288
01:40:03,456 -- 01:40:05,916
I don't know why I....
1289
01:40:06,084 -- 01:40:08,377
Do please continue, general.
1290
01:40:09,420 -- 01:40:10,879
Yes, sir.
1291
01:40:12,757 -- 01:40:14,257
Sir.
1292
01:40:15,176 -- 01:40:17,928
I said to General Ewell these words....
1293
01:40:18,096 -- 01:40:20,055
I said to him:
1294
01:40:20,223 -- 01:40:25,018
"Sir, give me one division
and I will take that hill."
1295
01:40:26,104 -- 01:40:30,524
He said nothing.
He just stood there and stared at me.
1296
01:40:30,692 -- 01:40:34,611
I said, "General Ewell,
give me one brigade...
1297
01:40:34,779 -- 01:40:37,364
...and I will take that hill."
1298
01:40:38,282 -- 01:40:40,450
I was becoming disturbed, sir.
1299
01:40:40,618 -- 01:40:45,789
And General Ewell put his arms
behind him and blinked.
1300
01:40:45,957 -- 01:40:50,752
So I said,
"General, give me one regiment...
1301
01:40:50,920 -- 01:40:53,672
...and I will take that hill."
1302
01:40:54,257 -- 01:40:56,633
And he said nothing.
1303
01:40:56,801 -- 01:40:58,969
He just stood there.
1304
01:40:59,137 -- 01:41:02,764
I threw down my sword.
Down on the ground in front of him.
1305
01:41:12,150 -- 01:41:14,443
We could have done it, sir.
1306
01:41:14,610 -- 01:41:17,154
A blind man should have seen it.
1307
01:41:19,407 -- 01:41:20,991
Now they're working up there.
1308
01:41:22,160 -- 01:41:25,245
You can hear the axes
of the Federal troops.
1309
01:41:25,413 -- 01:41:27,122
And so in the morning...
1310
01:41:27,290 -- 01:41:30,250
...many a good boy will die...
1311
01:41:30,418 -- 01:41:32,335
...taking that hill.
1312
01:41:34,797 -- 01:41:36,423
Sir.
1313
01:41:37,341 -- 01:41:40,177
I must request another assignment.
1314
01:41:48,352 -- 01:41:51,480
No, sir. That won't be necessary.
1315
01:41:52,482 -- 01:41:54,691
You will be of great service.
1316
01:41:54,859 -- 01:41:57,360
And I do thank you.
1317
01:42:47,829 -- 01:42:49,079
HANCOCK:
General Meade, sir.
1318
01:42:49,247 -- 01:42:53,875
Hancock. It's so damn dark out there
I can't see a thing.
1319
01:42:55,419 -- 01:42:56,753
Well, gentlemen.
1320
01:42:58,923 -- 01:43:01,550
I hope to God that this is...
1321
01:43:01,717 -- 01:43:04,094
...good ground.
1322
01:43:06,430 -- 01:43:10,016
Is this good ground, general?
1323
01:43:10,768 -- 01:43:12,978
Is this the place to have an army?
1324
01:43:13,145 -- 01:43:16,982
Very good ground, sir. Very good ground.
1325
01:43:17,149 -- 01:43:19,442
I hope you are right.
1326
01:43:19,610 -- 01:43:23,822
Because we are going to have a fight here
sure enough in the morning.
1327
01:43:27,785 -- 01:43:32,122
General Ewell, I had hoped that
after moving through the town...
1328
01:43:32,290 -- 01:43:34,541
...you would've taken that hill.
1329
01:43:34,709 -- 01:43:36,751
I didn't think it was practical.
1330
01:43:37,295 -- 01:43:39,629
Well, for many reasons.
1331
01:43:39,797 -- 01:43:42,340
We marched all day, and we'd fought.
1332
01:43:42,508 -- 01:43:46,136
And your orders were to caution
against bringing on a general engagement.
1333
01:43:46,304 -- 01:43:50,307
There were reports of Federal troops
in the north, sir.
1334
01:43:50,474 -- 01:43:53,310
We couldn't bring sufficient artillery
to bear on that hill.
1335
01:43:54,145 -- 01:43:59,149
We decided it was best to wait
for another of our divisions, Johnson's.
1336
01:43:59,317 -- 01:44:03,987
Yes, sir. Johnson didn't arrive
till after dark, just a while ago.
1337
01:44:04,906 -- 01:44:07,741
He's out there now,
looking over the terrain.
1338
01:44:07,909 -- 01:44:11,786
General Early, do you think you can
attack on your flank in the morning?
1339
01:44:12,496 -- 01:44:13,872
[SIGHS]
1340
01:44:14,040 -- 01:44:16,958
That hill will be a very strong position
once it's fortified...
1341
01:44:17,126 -- 01:44:19,044
...which is what they're doing
right now, sir.
1342
01:44:19,211 -- 01:44:22,505
I am very much aware of that, general.
1343
01:44:22,673 -- 01:44:24,674
Have you looked over
the ground yourself, sir?
1344
01:44:24,842 -- 01:44:26,259
From a distance only.
1345
01:44:28,012 -- 01:44:30,597
I do not think we should attack
this point.
1346
01:44:30,765 -- 01:44:33,099
This will be the strong point.
1347
01:44:34,018 -- 01:44:37,896
Our troops have marched hard
and fought hard today.
1348
01:44:38,064 -- 01:44:43,443
I suggest we hold here while the rest
of the army attacks the other flank.
1349
01:44:43,611 -- 01:44:46,363
Do you think an attack on your flank
will succeed?
1350
01:44:47,698 -- 01:44:49,866
I think it would be very costly.
1351
01:44:50,034 -- 01:44:51,368
Very costly, sir.
1352
01:44:54,538 -- 01:44:55,580
General Rodes?
1353
01:44:57,041 -- 01:45:00,502
We, uh, could attack of course, general...
1354
01:45:00,670 -- 01:45:05,048
...but the boys have had a good fight
and that will be a strong position.
1355
01:45:08,052 -- 01:45:11,262
General, I am sorry we didn't
take that hill today.
1356
01:45:12,431 -- 01:45:15,934
Well, this day is done.
1357
01:45:16,811 -- 01:45:21,982
You know, General Longstreet proposes
that we move our army around to the right...
1358
01:45:22,149 -- 01:45:24,234
...and flank the Federal army...
1359
01:45:24,402 -- 01:45:27,404
...and interpose between
Meade and Washington.
1360
01:45:27,571 -- 01:45:29,489
And to vacate this position?
1361
01:45:29,657 -- 01:45:32,075
To leave this town
we've just captured, sir?
1362
01:45:32,243 -- 01:45:35,745
This town is of no military significance
whatsoever, general.
1363
01:45:35,913 -- 01:45:39,624
To move this entire corps in the face
of a fortified enemy?
1364
01:45:39,792 -- 01:45:43,378
And yet you tell me
that you cannot attack in the morning?
1365
01:45:43,546 -- 01:45:49,384
Gentlemen, if we do not withdraw and if we
do not maneuver in the face of the enemy...
1366
01:45:49,552 -- 01:45:53,388
...then we must attack.
Is there any other alternative?
1367
01:45:57,601 -- 01:46:00,145
-General Hill?
-No, sir.
1368
01:46:02,773 -- 01:46:04,441
Very well.
1369
01:46:05,359 -- 01:46:07,444
I do thank you gentlemen.
1370
01:46:21,751 -- 01:46:23,293
[CLEARS THROAT]
1371
01:46:24,295 -- 01:46:26,254
General...
1372
01:46:27,965 -- 01:46:31,468
...I believe I may have been
too slow today.
1373
01:46:32,178 -- 01:46:34,304
I regret that very much.
1374
01:46:35,389 -- 01:46:37,974
I was trying to be careful.
1375
01:46:39,518 -- 01:46:40,810
May have been too careful.
1376
01:46:41,979 -- 01:46:45,106
You won a victory this day, general.
1377
01:46:45,274 -- 01:46:49,319
It was not a large victory.
It could have been larger.
1378
01:46:49,487 -- 01:46:51,529
Perhaps we could've pushed harder.
1379
01:46:51,697 -- 01:46:54,616
But it was a victory nonetheless.
1380
01:46:54,784 -- 01:46:57,368
And your people fought valiantly.
1381
01:46:57,536 -- 01:47:00,455
This was your first campaign
commanding a corps.
1382
01:47:00,623 -- 01:47:04,959
Now you know it's not always
as simple as it sometimes appears.
1383
01:47:05,753 -- 01:47:07,253
Go and rest now for tomorrow.
1384
01:47:28,692 -- 01:47:30,610
[DOOR OPENS]
1385
01:47:36,575 -- 01:47:39,410
-Will there be anything else, sir?
-No, thank you, major.
1386
01:47:39,703 -- 01:47:41,454
Very well.
1387
01:48:10,401 -- 01:48:13,319
LEE [IN VOICE-OVER]:
In the morning is the great battle.
1388
01:48:13,487 -- 01:48:17,991
Tomorrow or the next day
will determine the war.
1389
01:48:18,159 -- 01:48:20,243
Virginia is here.
1390
01:48:20,411 -- 01:48:22,912
All the South is here.
1391
01:48:23,080 -- 01:48:25,748
What will you do tomorrow?
1392
01:48:26,792 -- 01:48:28,251
In the morning...
1393
01:48:28,919 -- 01:48:33,006
...the enemy will be up
in fortified positions on high ground.
1394
01:48:33,174 -- 01:48:36,134
Longstreet's corps will be coming up...
1395
01:48:36,302 -- 01:48:39,262
...and my boys will be ready
to finish the job.
1396
01:48:40,264 -- 01:48:44,434
If I tell them to withdraw now? No, sir.
1397
01:48:44,602 -- 01:48:47,729
They've been patient for far too long.
1398
01:48:47,897 -- 01:48:50,773
With the enemy out there up on the hill...
1399
01:48:50,941 -- 01:48:53,818
...they'll be ready to finish the job.
1400
01:48:53,986 -- 01:48:57,113
But I don't even know
how much is up there.
1401
01:48:57,281 -- 01:49:00,200
How many men? How many cannon?
1402
01:49:00,367 -- 01:49:03,828
I don't know the ground on the flanks.
1403
01:49:03,996 -- 01:49:06,122
I don't know.
1404
01:49:06,290 -- 01:49:09,667
If I wait in the morning,
the early morning...
1405
01:49:09,835 -- 01:49:13,963
...maybe Meade,
under pressure, will attack. Hm.
1406
01:49:14,131 -- 01:49:17,425
That would make General Longstreet
very happy.
1407
01:49:17,968 -- 01:49:21,179
But I don't think Meade will come down.
1408
01:49:21,722 -- 01:49:26,643
And I don't think I can withdraw, so...
1409
01:49:27,937 -- 01:49:32,273
...God's will, thy will be done.
1410
01:49:33,817 -- 01:49:35,652
LONGSTREET: Major Sorrel,
you've met before.
1411
01:49:35,819 -- 01:49:37,612
SORREL:
Thank you, general.
1412
01:49:38,364 -- 01:49:41,950
The Federal position was scouted
during the last several hours.
1413
01:49:42,117 -- 01:49:43,618
We've drawn it up here.
1414
01:49:43,786 -- 01:49:45,495
Now, this is the situation.
1415
01:49:45,663 -- 01:49:49,332
The position of the Federal army
is in the shape of a fishhook.
1416
01:49:49,541 -- 01:49:51,709
It starts here. You see these two hills?
1417
01:49:51,877 -- 01:49:54,170
This one and the one with the cemetery.
1418
01:49:54,338 -- 01:49:57,048
That is where they have concentrated
their troops.
1419
01:49:57,216 -- 01:49:59,842
The hook starts there.
1420
01:50:00,010 -- 01:50:03,346
Now, it curves around and comes down
this low ridge to the south...
1421
01:50:03,514 -- 01:50:06,516
...ending before two round hills
of high elevation.
1422
01:50:06,684 -- 01:50:09,727
The Federals have no troops
on those two hills.
1423
01:50:09,895 -- 01:50:12,480
LONGSTREET: Carry on.
SORREL: Thank you.
1424
01:50:12,648 -- 01:50:16,859
We now know that General Hancock
is in charge of the Union center.
1425
01:50:17,027 -- 01:50:20,613
There are now perhaps 60,000
to 70,000 men already in position.
1426
01:50:20,781 -- 01:50:22,532
Perhaps as high as 90,000.
1427
01:50:22,700 -- 01:50:24,534
[SIGHS]
1428
01:50:26,996 -- 01:50:29,706
LEE: I spoke with General Ewell
of your suggestion...
1429
01:50:29,999 -- 01:50:32,834
...that we move around to the right
to flank the Federal army.
1430
01:50:33,752 -- 01:50:37,255
And he is of the opinion that
withdrawing from Gettysburg...
1431
01:50:37,423 -- 01:50:41,009
...and giving it back to the enemy
would be very bad for morale.
1432
01:50:41,176 -- 01:50:44,137
It is unnecessary.
It might even be dangerous.
1433
01:50:44,305 -- 01:50:46,097
Do you disagree?
1434
01:50:48,100 -- 01:50:49,892
We must attack.
1435
01:50:51,061 -- 01:50:53,313
I would prefer not to fight
upon this ground...
1436
01:50:53,480 -- 01:50:57,066
...but every moment we delay
the enemy uses to reinforce himself.
1437
01:50:57,234 -- 01:51:00,028
We cannot support ourselves
for long in this country.
1438
01:51:00,195 -- 01:51:03,281
We must not allow the Federal army
to move around behind...
1439
01:51:03,449 -- 01:51:05,366
...and cut us off from home. No, sir.
1440
01:51:05,534 -- 01:51:07,577
We must strike him now.
1441
01:51:11,582 -- 01:51:14,792
LEE: We pushed him yesterday
and he will remember it.
1442
01:51:14,960 -- 01:51:20,131
The men are ready and they are eager.
I see no useful alternative.
1443
01:51:20,299 -- 01:51:21,424
LONGSTREET:
Yes, sir.
1444
01:51:21,592 -- 01:51:22,842
LEE:
Very well.
1445
01:51:24,845 -- 01:51:26,346
Gentlemen.
1446
01:51:27,264 -- 01:51:29,766
-Good morning, all.
OFFICER: Good morning, sir.
1447
01:51:29,933 -- 01:51:33,603
Longstreet will attack on the right
with the First Corps.
1448
01:51:34,855 -- 01:51:36,689
Hill will support...
1449
01:51:36,857 -- 01:51:38,900
...with Heth in reserve.
1450
01:51:40,277 -- 01:51:43,446
Ewell s people on the left
will demonstrate to keep the enemy...
1451
01:51:43,614 -- 01:51:45,865
...from reinforcing against our right flank.
1452
01:51:46,033 -- 01:51:48,284
Yes, sir. But I still don't have Pickett.
1453
01:51:48,452 -- 01:51:50,745
He's at the rear of column,
a full day's march.
1454
01:51:50,913 -- 01:51:53,456
All I've got is Hood and McLaws.
1455
01:51:53,624 -- 01:51:58,336
I do believe that Hood's
and McLaws' divisions will be sufficient.
1456
01:51:58,796 -- 01:52:01,798
-With the general s permission.
-General Hood?
1457
01:52:01,965 -- 01:52:06,469
Moving in front of those rocky heights,
we'll have enfilade fire...
1458
01:52:06,637 -- 01:52:07,762
...coming down on us.
1459
01:52:07,930 -- 01:52:10,139
Perhaps, but not for long. Your division...
1460
01:52:10,307 -- 01:52:13,601
...will be up over this unoccupied hill,
the little, rocky one.
1461
01:52:13,769 -- 01:52:15,895
From there you will threaten
the enemy flank.
1462
01:52:16,063 -- 01:52:19,148
When you're heavily engaged,
General Ewell will strike from the left.
1463
01:52:19,650 -- 01:52:20,942
Very well, sir.
1464
01:52:22,236 -- 01:52:24,320
-General?
-Let's move out, gentlemen.
1465
01:52:25,697 -- 01:52:27,407
Sir.
1466
01:52:30,661 -- 01:52:33,246
LEE: General Barksdale,
is Mississippi ready for this day?
1467
01:52:33,414 -- 01:52:35,081
-Mississippi is ready.
LEE: Very well, sir.
1468
01:52:35,666 -- 01:52:37,667
Let's go to it, Sam.
1469
01:52:41,130 -- 01:52:43,589
If he's right, General Lee...
1470
01:52:43,757 -- 01:52:46,509
...then the war is over by sundown.
1471
01:52:46,677 -- 01:52:49,470
Hm. We'll see.
1472
01:52:49,638 -- 01:52:52,014
I don't like going in without Pickett.
1473
01:52:52,182 -- 01:52:54,350
It's like going in with one boot off.
1474
01:52:54,893 -- 01:52:57,186
I'll wait as long as I can.
1475
01:52:58,439 -- 01:53:00,815
Do you have any idea of the force?
1476
01:53:02,025 -- 01:53:06,696
We counted five corps, including
the two involved in yesterday's action.
1477
01:53:06,864 -- 01:53:08,865
That don't mean how many might be...
1478
01:53:09,032 -- 01:53:11,159
..hidden behind those hills there.
1479
01:53:12,161 -- 01:53:16,414
And, damn it, with Stuart gone
there ain't no way of knowing for sure.
1480
01:53:17,040 -- 01:53:18,374
Hey, Sam.
1481
01:53:18,542 -- 01:53:20,960
Take good care of yourself today,
you hear?
1482
01:53:22,212 -- 01:53:23,504
You, too, Pete.
1483
01:53:34,391 -- 01:53:35,808
With your permission, sir.
1484
01:53:48,572 -- 01:53:50,490
I don't believe I've had the pleasure.
1485
01:53:51,783 -- 01:53:55,286
That's Major General John Bell Hood,
but we call him Sam.
1486
01:53:55,496 -- 01:53:59,707
One of my three division commanders.
Fellows from TeEas and Alabama.
1487
01:54:00,000 -- 01:54:02,710
Oh, you've been to Texas, as I recall.
1488
01:54:02,920 -- 01:54:05,755
Yes. Actually that's where I came through.
1489
01:54:05,923 -- 01:54:09,634
Courtesy of the Yankee Navy
who denied me any other point of entry.
1490
01:54:11,929 -- 01:54:14,430
It's a marvelous place, Texas.
1491
01:54:14,598 -- 01:54:17,350
Full of red Indians and Mexicans...
1492
01:54:17,518 -- 01:54:20,811
...cowboys, bandits and desperados.
1493
01:54:21,605 -- 01:54:24,023
Even hotter and more humid
than this place.
1494
01:54:24,191 -- 01:54:25,900
If that's possible.
1495
01:54:26,068 -- 01:54:27,193
[CHUCKLING]
1496
01:54:27,361 -- 01:54:28,694
That fellow Hood...
1497
01:54:28,862 -- 01:54:31,739
...does his performance in battle
match his appearance?
1498
01:54:31,907 -- 01:54:34,075
He really does look the part.
1499
01:54:34,243 -- 01:54:36,118
He does his job.
1500
01:54:37,120 -- 01:54:39,664
Most interesting army, I must say.
1501
01:54:40,249 -- 01:54:44,001
Virginia gentlemen fighting
alongside Texas frontiersmen...
1502
01:54:44,169 -- 01:54:47,463
...and bayou bushwhackers
from Louisiana.
1503
01:54:47,631 -- 01:54:50,132
Drawn together from across a continent.
1504
01:54:51,677 -- 01:54:55,304
Having traveled a good piece of it myself,
I feel a part...
1505
01:54:55,472 -- 01:54:58,891
...or almost a member of this enterprise.
1506
01:55:00,018 -- 01:55:04,480
You call yourselves Americans,
but you're really transplanted Englishmen.
1507
01:55:04,648 -- 01:55:07,817
Look at your names, Lee, Hood...
1508
01:55:07,985 -- 01:55:10,278
...Longstreet, Jackson, Stuart.
1509
01:55:10,445 -- 01:55:11,654
My people were Dutch.
1510
01:55:11,822 -- 01:55:16,576
And the same for your adversaries.
Meade, Hooker, Hancock, and...
1511
01:55:17,286 -- 01:55:21,247
...shall I say? Lincoln.
1512
01:55:22,666 -- 01:55:27,295
The same God. Same language.
Same culture and history.
1513
01:55:27,462 -- 01:55:31,924
The same songs, stories, legends, myths.
1514
01:55:32,926 -- 01:55:35,011
But different dreams.
1515
01:55:36,013 -- 01:55:37,888
Different dreams.
1516
01:55:39,099 -- 01:55:41,642
It's so very sad. Very sad.
1517
01:55:42,436 -- 01:55:45,855
You English had your own civil war once,
didn't you?
1518
01:55:46,023 -- 01:55:48,899
That was ages ago.
We wouldn't dream of it now.
1519
01:55:49,067 -- 01:55:51,152
Cavaliers and Roundheads.
1520
01:55:51,320 -- 01:55:53,362
"Off with his head! Off with his head!"
1521
01:55:55,198 -- 01:55:56,365
Heads lying everywhere.
1522
01:55:56,533 -- 01:56:00,036
One could hardly take a step
without tripping over a fallen crown.
1523
01:56:00,203 -- 01:56:03,831
We're much more civilized now,
I assure you.
1524
01:56:04,833 -- 01:56:07,460
We have so much in common,
your country and mine.
1525
01:56:07,628 -- 01:56:11,005
I earnestly hope
that we shall become allies.
1526
01:56:11,590 -- 01:56:15,635
Your government would never ally itself
with a Confederacy...
1527
01:56:15,886 -- 01:56:19,430
...that had the institution of slavery.
You know that. So do I.
1528
01:56:25,437 -- 01:56:26,479
[SIGHS]
1529
01:56:26,647 -- 01:56:29,899
We should have freed the slaves,
then fired on Fort Sumter.
1530
01:56:34,446 -- 01:56:39,742
I guess we Southerners and you English
have at least one thing in common.
1531
01:56:39,910 -- 01:56:42,745
We'd rather lose the war
than admit to the mistake.
1532
01:56:44,623 -- 01:56:47,375
We whupped you British twice
as I recollect.
1533
01:56:47,626 -- 01:56:49,126
[LAUGHING]
1534
01:56:49,878 -- 01:56:53,589
Your candor is admirable,
if somewhat eccentric.
1535
01:56:54,257 -- 01:56:56,592
A little eccentricity is good for a general.
1536
01:56:57,302 -- 01:57:01,555
We Southerners like our men religious
and a little bit mad.
1537
01:57:02,432 -- 01:57:06,310
I suspect that's why the women
fall in love with preachers.
1538
01:57:10,273 -- 01:57:12,942
If I may be so bold...
1539
01:57:13,110 -- 01:57:16,112
...what's to prevent the Yankees
from attacking us here?
1540
01:57:16,279 -- 01:57:20,950
I notice you haven't bothered
to entrench or build a fortified perimeter.
1541
01:57:21,118 -- 01:57:23,953
Ohh. We were alert today.
1542
01:57:25,497 -- 01:57:30,960
But old George Meade ain't gonna
do us any favors.
1543
01:57:31,712 -- 01:57:35,589
What we must do is we must
make him attack us.
1544
01:57:36,425 -- 01:57:39,135
And in order to do that, we have to
occupy dangerous ground...
1545
01:57:39,302 -- 01:57:40,803
...between him and Washington.
1546
01:57:40,971 -- 01:57:46,142
Then-- Then the politicians will press him
to attack us.
1547
01:57:46,935 -- 01:57:49,979
Which he will most certainly do,
given time.
1548
01:57:50,981 -- 01:57:54,942
Oh, I see. Very clever. Very clever.
1549
01:57:55,110 -- 01:57:57,069
So Lee doesn't dig in...
1550
01:57:57,237 -- 01:58:00,030
...knowing with certainty
that Meade will not attack him here.
1551
01:58:00,198 -- 01:58:03,367
Meade will eEpect him to swing around
to the south...
1552
01:58:03,535 -- 01:58:07,830
...in an attempt to cut him off from
the capital, his supplies and reserves.
1553
01:58:07,998 -- 01:58:12,460
So while Meade ponders his own position,
for fear he'll be flanked...
1554
01:58:12,627 -- 01:58:15,671
...Lee will actually attack him here,
where he least suspects it.
1555
01:58:15,839 -- 01:58:18,966
Lulled as he is by his own
false feeling of security...
1556
01:58:19,134 -- 01:58:23,512
...derived by his holding the
seemingly superior topographical
battlefield position...
1557
01:58:23,680 -- 01:58:25,431
...in short, the higher ground.
1558
01:58:25,599 -- 01:58:28,934
Brilliant. Sheer military brilliance.
1559
01:58:29,102 -- 01:58:33,230
General Lee is the ultimate strategist,
a master deceiver.
1560
01:58:33,398 -- 01:58:37,777
Sir, it is exhilarating to be
upon this field.
1561
01:58:39,196 -- 01:58:41,822
Well, I will pass on...
1562
01:58:41,990 -- 01:58:45,409
...your complimentary sentiments
to the general.
1563
01:58:47,996 -- 01:58:50,539
Good morning, Colonel Freemantle.
1564
01:59:41,091 -- 01:59:44,260
[PRIEST SPEAKING IN LATIN]
1565
01:59:44,970 -- 01:59:46,011
ALL:
Amen.
1566
01:59:46,763 -- 01:59:48,889
LEE:
General Longstreet.
1567
01:59:49,474 -- 01:59:51,392
Do you mind if I accompany you?
1568
01:59:51,560 -- 01:59:54,770
Not at all. I'm very glad
to have you with us, sir.
1569
01:59:55,939 -- 01:59:58,274
The heat reminds me of Mexico.
1570
01:59:58,441 -- 02:00:01,110
Yes, but there it was very dry.
1571
02:00:01,278 -- 02:00:03,153
That was a good outfit.
1572
02:00:04,155 -- 02:00:08,117
I remember storming the ramparts
of Chapultapec with old George Pickett.
1573
02:00:09,202 -- 02:00:13,163
Reynolds.... My old friend,
Ulysses Sam Grant.
1574
02:00:13,331 -- 02:00:16,125
-There was some good men in that army.
-Yes, indeed.
1575
02:00:16,293 -- 02:00:19,712
Some of those men are waiting for us now
up ahead on those ridges.
1576
02:00:21,548 -- 02:00:25,050
I don't know. I sometimes feel troubled.
1577
02:00:26,303 -- 02:00:29,805
Those fellows, those boys in blue,
they never quite seem the enemy.
1578
02:00:29,973 -- 02:00:31,599
I know.
1579
02:00:32,517 -- 02:00:36,312
I used to command some of those boys.
Swore an oath too.
1580
02:00:38,732 -- 02:00:42,651
I couldn't fight against Georgia
and South Carolina.
1581
02:00:43,194 -- 02:00:44,612
Not against my own family.
1582
02:00:44,779 -- 02:00:48,324
No, sir. There was always a higher duty
to Virginia.
1583
02:00:48,491 -- 02:00:50,034
That was our first duty.
1584
02:00:50,201 -- 02:00:52,453
There was never any question about that.
1585
02:00:52,621 -- 02:00:55,164
-I guess so.
-Let us not think about that now.
1586
02:00:55,332 -- 02:00:57,499
The issue is in God's hands.
1587
02:00:57,667 -- 02:00:59,668
We can only do our duty.
1588
02:01:01,087 -- 02:01:02,588
General?
1589
02:01:03,173 -- 02:01:05,466
Soldiering has one great trap.
1590
02:01:06,676 -- 02:01:09,053
To be a good soldier
you must love the army.
1591
02:01:09,596 -- 02:01:13,349
To be a good commander,
you must be willing to order the death...
1592
02:01:13,516 -- 02:01:15,309
...of the thing you love.
1593
02:01:15,477 -- 02:01:18,062
We do not fear our own death, you and I.
1594
02:01:18,229 -- 02:01:20,522
But there comes a time....
1595
02:01:21,524 -- 02:01:24,693
We are never quite prepared
for so many to die.
1596
02:01:24,861 -- 02:01:30,157
We do eEpect the occasional empty chair.
A salute to fallen comrades...
1597
02:01:30,575 -- 02:01:33,285
...but this war goes on and on
and the men die...
1598
02:01:33,453 -- 02:01:35,704
...and the price gets ever higher.
1599
02:01:35,872 -- 02:01:41,543
We are prepared to lose some of us,
but we are never prepared to lose all of us.
1600
02:01:41,711 -- 02:01:43,754
And there is the great trap, general.
1601
02:01:44,464 -- 02:01:46,757
When you attack,
you must hold nothing back.
1602
02:01:46,925 -- 02:01:48,717
You must commit yourself totally.
1603
02:01:48,885 -- 02:01:51,762
We are adrift here in a sea of blood,
and I want it to end.
1604
02:01:54,724 -- 02:01:57,142
I want this to be the final battle.
1605
02:02:03,066 -- 02:02:06,443
I woke up this morning and I half thought
he'd be gone, George Meade.
1606
02:02:06,987 -- 02:02:09,488
That he would not want to fight here.
Yes, sir.
1607
02:02:10,156 -- 02:02:12,741
I woke up and I thought,
"Meade will be gone...
1608
02:02:12,909 -- 02:02:15,744
...and this war will go on and on and on."
1609
02:02:16,454 -- 02:02:18,288
Well, sir...
1610
02:02:18,999 -- 02:02:20,749
...we'll make him sorry he stayed.
1611
02:02:24,754 -- 02:02:26,130
God go with you, general.
1612
02:02:26,297 -- 02:02:27,673
And with you, general.
1613
02:02:36,266 -- 02:02:37,766
That's mostly to the south.
1614
02:02:37,934 -- 02:02:41,854
I thought the rebs were all in Gettysburg.
You don't suppose they're flanking again?
1615
02:02:42,022 -- 02:02:44,940
Mama's favorite. Let's go.
1616
02:02:45,108 -- 02:02:47,109
Lawrence, what's happening?
1617
02:02:47,277 -- 02:02:50,112
ESTABROOK: Sir, Corporal Estabrook
reporting back, sir.
1618
02:02:50,280 -- 02:02:51,947
Brook, I thought you were on sick call.
1619
02:02:52,115 -- 02:02:54,283
ESTABROOK: Yes, sir.
-How are you now?
1620
02:02:54,451 -- 02:02:56,493
ESTABROOK: It's my stomach.
I've been vomiting.
1621
02:02:56,661 -- 02:02:57,953
It's something you ate.
1622
02:02:58,121 -- 02:03:00,789
-Finish up. We're about to move out.
-Yes, sir.
1623
02:03:02,333 -- 02:03:04,501
VINCENT: Col. Chamberlain.
LAWRENCE: Col. Vincent.
1624
02:03:04,669 -- 02:03:07,296
Form your men.
Follow me and prepare to double-quick.
1625
02:03:07,464 -- 02:03:09,798
We're going to the top of that hill,
right there.
1626
02:03:09,966 -- 02:03:12,092
LAWRENCE: Hear that?
CLARK: Yes. I'll set it up.
1627
02:03:12,260 -- 02:03:14,595
The rebels are stacking up
on our left flank.
1628
02:03:14,763 -- 02:03:16,305
And we've got to follow them.
1629
02:03:16,473 -- 02:03:17,973
VINCENT: Make haste.
LAWRENCE: Yes.
1630
02:03:18,475 -- 02:03:19,808
CLARK:
Sound the assembly!
1631
02:03:20,810 -- 02:03:22,144
[BUGLE CALLING]
1632
02:03:22,312 -- 02:03:23,520
Follow me.
1633
02:03:23,688 -- 02:03:25,647
[DRUM BEATING]
1634
02:03:28,818 -- 02:03:30,652
OFFICER:
Powder in! Load!
1635
02:03:39,829 -- 02:03:41,413
HOOD:
General.
1636
02:03:42,499 -- 02:03:46,043
Look here,
the ground is strewn with boulders.
1637
02:03:46,669 -- 02:03:49,463
The soldiers up there are entrenched
all over the ground.
1638
02:03:49,631 -- 02:03:51,715
And there are guns in the rocks.
1639
02:03:51,883 -- 02:03:54,468
Every move I make is observed.
1640
02:03:56,012 -- 02:03:59,807
If I attack as ordered,
I lose half my division.
1641
02:03:59,974 -- 02:04:04,686
And they'll be looking down our throats
at us from that hill right there.
1642
02:04:05,230 -- 02:04:07,564
We must move around to the right, sir.
1643
02:04:07,732 -- 02:04:10,400
-And take them from the rear.
-Sam...
1644
02:04:10,568 -- 02:04:14,863
...the commanding general will not allow
a flanking movement around those hills.
1645
02:04:15,031 -- 02:04:18,033
I argued it yesterday.
I argued it all morning.
1646
02:04:18,201 -- 02:04:20,536
I've been arguing against
any attack at all.
1647
02:04:20,703 -- 02:04:23,288
I can't call this one off. You know it.
1648
02:04:24,541 -- 02:04:27,376
Let me move up the big round hill
to the south.
1649
02:04:27,585 -- 02:04:30,087
Nobody is on that.
If I could get a battery up there--
1650
02:04:30,255 -- 02:04:31,755
LONGSTREET:
There ain't enough time.
1651
02:04:31,923 -- 02:04:34,508
You'd have to cut down trees
to place your artillery.
1652
02:04:34,676 -- 02:04:37,344
It would be dark
before you were in action.
1653
02:04:37,512 -- 02:04:40,639
One the other hand,
if they get batteries up there...
1654
02:04:40,807 -- 02:04:44,226
...we'll need buckets to catch the lead.
You've got to take that hill.
1655
02:04:44,936 -- 02:04:47,521
They don't even need guns to defend that.
1656
02:04:47,689 -- 02:04:49,940
All they need to do
is roll rocks down on you.
1657
02:04:50,108 -- 02:04:51,483
Just take it.
1658
02:04:51,651 -- 02:04:54,903
General, I do this under protest.
1659
02:04:55,071 -- 02:04:56,947
LONGSTREET:
Sam, you are the best I got.
1660
02:04:57,949 -- 02:05:01,326
Now, sir, if you are ready,
why don't you take that hill?
1661
02:05:04,414 -- 02:05:06,456
Hyah!
1662
02:05:19,095 -- 02:05:20,596
VINCENT:
They're overshooting again.
1663
02:05:20,805 -- 02:05:24,433
Hey, fellows, you notice how
that reb artillery always overshoots?
1664
02:05:25,101 -- 02:05:26,476
LAWRENCE: Tom?
TOM: Yes, sir.
1665
02:05:26,644 -- 02:05:29,605
LAWRENCE: Another one closer
and it could be hard day for Mother.
1666
02:05:29,772 -- 02:05:31,940
Go back to the rear.
Watch out for stragglers.
1667
02:05:32,108 -- 02:05:33,650
Keep your distance from me.
1668
02:05:34,569 -- 02:05:36,111
TOM:
Lawrence, I don't....
1669
02:05:52,795 -- 02:05:55,339
[SOLDIERS YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
1670
02:06:07,310 -- 02:06:11,313
[CANNONS FIRING]
1671
02:06:18,488 -- 02:06:20,864
The whole damn reb army is down there...
1672
02:06:21,032 -- 02:06:24,493
...and coming up around our flanks.
They could be here any minute.
1673
02:06:25,203 -- 02:06:28,789
We've got to hold this place.
We've got to hold it.
1674
02:06:30,583 -- 02:06:33,126
Well, all right. I place you here.
1675
02:06:33,294 -- 02:06:37,130
Put your colors here, and set
your regiment to the left of this line.
1676
02:06:37,298 -- 02:06:40,592
The rest of the brigade
will form on your right. Understood?
1677
02:06:40,760 -- 02:06:42,844
-Yes. Ellis, this is the point.
-Sir.
1678
02:06:43,054 -- 02:06:45,180
Your regiment is to the left of this point.
1679
02:06:45,890 -- 02:06:49,559
-Colonel, sir. You're the end of the line.
-Yes.
1680
02:06:49,727 -- 02:06:54,189
You're the extreme left of the Union army.
Understood?
1681
02:06:54,732 -- 02:06:57,192
The line runs from here
back to Cemetery Hill...
1682
02:06:57,360 -- 02:06:59,903
-...but it ends here.
-Understood.
1683
02:07:00,071 -- 02:07:02,781
You can't withdraw under any condition.
1684
02:07:03,783 -- 02:07:06,034
If you go, this line will be flanked.
1685
02:07:06,202 -- 02:07:09,079
If you go, the enemy will sweep up
over the hillside...
1686
02:07:09,247 -- 02:07:11,832
...and take this entire army from the rear.
1687
02:07:12,750 -- 02:07:16,044
-You must defend this place to the last.
-Yes, sir.
1688
02:07:18,172 -- 02:07:20,549
Now we'll see how professors fight.
1689
02:07:22,218 -- 02:07:25,053
Ellis, position the regiment.
All company commanders here.
1690
02:07:25,221 -- 02:07:26,221
Yes, sir.
1691
02:07:26,389 -- 02:07:27,889
SPEAR:
Sharpshooters to the left!
1692
02:07:28,933 -- 02:07:31,101
Battalion on the right!
1693
02:07:31,269 -- 02:07:34,062
Now file into line. March.
1694
02:07:36,858 -- 02:07:38,066
[SOLDIERS YELLING]
1695
02:07:38,234 -- 02:07:39,818
[CANNONS FIRING]
1696
02:07:41,279 -- 02:07:43,530
Bugler, sound the officer's call.
1697
02:07:44,741 -- 02:07:46,575
[BUGLE BLOWING]
1698
02:07:49,912 -- 02:07:53,999
LAWRENCE [IN VOICE-OVER]:
"Hold to the last." To the last what?
1699
02:07:54,917 -- 02:07:56,918
Exercise in rhetoric.
1700
02:07:57,086 -- 02:08:00,088
Last shell? Last man?
1701
02:08:00,256 -- 02:08:04,092
Last foot of ground? Last reb?
1702
02:08:16,105 -- 02:08:17,939
Advance!
1703
02:08:18,941 -- 02:08:20,734
Move out!
1704
02:09:01,317 -- 02:09:03,193
OFFICER:
Turn those guns around!
1705
02:09:07,323 -- 02:09:11,827
Gentlemen, the 83rd Pennsylvania,
44th New York, and 16th Michigan...
1706
02:09:11,994 -- 02:09:15,414
...will be moving in to our right.
But if you look left, you will see...
1707
02:09:15,581 -- 02:09:17,332
...that there is no one there.
1708
02:09:17,500 -- 02:09:20,752
Because we're the end of the line.
The Union army stops here.
1709
02:09:20,920 -- 02:09:22,170
We are the flank.
1710
02:09:23,214 -- 02:09:24,506
Do you understand, gentlemen?
1711
02:09:24,674 -- 02:09:28,009
We cannot retreat. We cannot withdraw.
1712
02:09:28,177 -- 02:09:31,471
We are going to have
to be stubborn today.
1713
02:09:32,890 -- 02:09:35,350
Put the boys in position,
tell them to stay down.
1714
02:09:35,518 -- 02:09:38,353
Pile the rocks up high
for the best protection you can.
1715
02:09:38,521 -- 02:09:41,022
I want the reserve pulled back
about 20 yards.
1716
02:09:41,190 -- 02:09:42,941
Sloping ground is good ground.
1717
02:09:43,109 -- 02:09:46,194
If you have any breakthroughs,
men wounded, a hole in the line...
1718
02:09:46,362 -- 02:09:48,905
...plug it with the reserve.
How's our ammunition?
1719
02:09:49,073 -- 02:09:51,158
Sir, I think about 60 rounds per man.
1720
02:09:51,325 -- 02:09:54,369
That's good. 60 rounds. I think....
Yes, that's adequate.
1721
02:09:54,537 -- 02:09:56,329
-Any questions?
LIEUTENANT: Colonel.
1722
02:09:56,497 -- 02:10:00,083
It seems to me
the fighting is on that side of the hill.
1723
02:10:00,251 -- 02:10:02,461
It seems to me that we're the back door.
1724
02:10:02,628 -- 02:10:05,380
And everything's going on
at the front door.
1725
02:10:07,133 -- 02:10:11,344
That hill is steep and rocky. It's bare.
To come straight up it is impossible.
1726
02:10:11,512 -- 02:10:13,388
The reb army is going to swing around it.
1727
02:10:13,556 -- 02:10:16,766
It'll come up through that notch
right over there.
1728
02:10:16,934 -- 02:10:20,437
It'll move under the cover of trees,
trying to get around the flank.
1729
02:10:22,064 -- 02:10:23,398
And gentlemen...
1730
02:10:24,233 -- 02:10:25,775
...we are the flank.
1731
02:10:28,654 -- 02:10:29,738
Gentlemen.
1732
02:10:38,247 -- 02:10:39,581
God go with you.
1733
02:11:05,942 -- 02:11:08,610
Captain Clark,
take the right side from the 83rd...
1734
02:11:08,778 -- 02:11:10,779
...over in this direction to the center.
1735
02:11:10,947 -- 02:11:14,658
Ellis, take the left but be watchful.
Your flank will be in the air.
1736
02:11:17,286 -- 02:11:19,579
-Colonel, sir.
LAWRENCE: Corporal Estabrook?
1737
02:11:19,747 -- 02:11:23,792
What do I do with these prisoners?
The hardheads of the Second Maine.
1738
02:11:27,672 -- 02:11:29,923
LAWRENCE:
Any of you care to join us?
1739
02:11:30,091 -- 02:11:33,301
-The rebs really coming?
LAWRENCE: They're coming.
1740
02:11:33,469 -- 02:11:36,930
Well, it's kind of dull
just sitting here watching, sir.
1741
02:11:37,098 -- 02:11:40,517
For any man who joins us,
there will be no court martial.
1742
02:11:46,482 -- 02:11:48,149
No man will call me a coward.
1743
02:11:54,073 -- 02:11:55,532
Why not?
1744
02:12:01,247 -- 02:12:04,833
I'll waste no man to guard you.
I expect you to be here when this is over.
1745
02:12:05,001 -- 02:12:08,336
-Let's get these fellows some muskets.
-There are no muskets, sir.
1746
02:12:11,591 -- 02:12:12,841
Wait here for a bit.
1747
02:12:13,009 -- 02:12:15,343
There will be guns available
in a little while.
1748
02:12:19,682 -- 02:12:22,392
That's the New York boys.
The rebs are getting closer.
1749
02:12:22,560 -- 02:12:24,019
Must be moving this way.
1750
02:12:25,563 -- 02:12:27,731
Sir, Private Foss is praying.
1751
02:12:32,236 -- 02:12:35,697
-Will you put in a kind word for me?
-Yes, sir.
1752
02:12:42,538 -- 02:12:44,789
-You're the Merrill brothers, right?
-Yes, sir.
1753
02:12:44,957 -- 02:12:46,750
Boys, why aren't you on the ground?
1754
02:12:46,917 -- 02:12:49,377
Sir, I can't shoot worth a darn
lying down.
1755
02:12:49,545 -- 02:12:52,714
Never could. Bill neither.
We like to fight standing.
1756
02:12:52,882 -- 02:12:54,549
I suggest you find a thicker tree.
1757
02:12:54,717 -- 02:12:55,884
Here they come!
1758
02:13:00,890 -- 02:13:03,725
I want you to stay with me,
but you keep down.
1759
02:13:03,934 -- 02:13:05,060
Buster!
1760
02:13:05,936 -- 02:13:08,396
KILRAIN: I bet the whole reb army
is coming this way.
1761
02:13:08,564 -- 02:13:11,149
Walk down the line.
Tell the boys to get good cover.
1762
02:13:11,317 -- 02:13:13,526
Pile the rocks high and fire carefully.
1763
02:13:13,694 -- 02:13:15,570
-Go down and come back.
-Right.
1764
02:13:15,738 -- 02:13:17,405
You got to keep an eye on them.
1765
02:13:17,573 -- 02:13:20,617
Some of them load but never fire.
They just keep right on loading.
1766
02:13:20,785 -- 02:13:23,328
Some come home with
eight bullets rammed up the barrel.
1767
02:13:23,496 -- 02:13:24,913
Never fired a shot.
1768
02:13:27,541 -- 02:13:29,000
Sir.
1769
02:13:33,089 -- 02:13:34,506
OFFICER:
Fire!
1770
02:13:34,674 -- 02:13:36,049
[CANNONS AND GUNS FIRING]
1771
02:13:36,425 -- 02:13:38,259
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
1772
02:14:27,810 -- 02:14:29,811
CONFEDERATE OFFICER:
Keep up your fire, boys!
1773
02:14:34,984 -- 02:14:36,484
SOLDIER:
Keep your head down.
1774
02:14:36,652 -- 02:14:38,194
SPEAR:
Watch your left side.
1775
02:14:45,995 -- 02:14:47,662
CONFEDERATE OFFICER:
Keep up your fire!
1776
02:15:45,221 -- 02:15:46,763
They're falling back.
1777
02:15:46,931 -- 02:15:48,640
They'll be back in a minute.
1778
02:15:48,808 -- 02:15:52,018
LAWRENCE: How are we doing?
-Fine. Fine.
1779
02:15:52,186 -- 02:15:54,062
-Colonel.
-Captain Clark, anybody hurt?
1780
02:15:54,230 -- 02:15:56,731
-Head and shoulder wounds.
-They didn't hit the left.
1781
02:15:56,899 -- 02:15:59,567
They're moving out that way.
Can you see them, sir?
1782
02:15:59,735 -- 02:16:01,945
They're coming again, boys!
1783
02:16:02,238 -- 02:16:04,197
[CONFEDERATES YELLING]
1784
02:16:45,447 -- 02:16:47,448
[CHATTERING]
1785
02:17:16,979 -- 02:17:19,314
Colonel, look there.
1786
02:17:19,648 -- 02:17:22,650
A new regiment has arrived
that's moving against the left.
1787
02:17:22,818 -- 02:17:24,402
It's out there. Do you see them?
1788
02:17:25,070 -- 02:17:26,863
OFFICER:
Double-quick!
1789
02:17:27,823 -- 02:17:30,533
I don't think we'll be able
to hold another one.
1790
02:17:30,701 -- 02:17:33,369
-Get all company commanders up here.
-On the double.
1791
02:17:35,539 -- 02:17:38,166
-Sergeant Owen!
OWEN: Yes, sir.
1792
02:17:39,043 -- 02:17:42,545
Get up to the top of that hill
and report me the situation from up there.
1793
02:17:42,713 -- 02:17:43,796
Yes, sir.
1794
02:17:46,842 -- 02:17:48,676
[GUNS FIRING]
1795
02:18:01,690 -- 02:18:04,734
We'll soon be flanked.
Here's what we'll do.
1796
02:18:04,902 -- 02:18:07,236
I want you to keep up
a good hot masking fire.
1797
02:18:07,529 -- 02:18:10,531
Keep a tight hold on the 83rd,
on old Pennsylvania over there.
1798
02:18:12,242 -- 02:18:13,868
I want no break in the line.
1799
02:18:14,036 -- 02:18:17,372
Captain Clark, that's you.
You understand? No breaks.
1800
02:18:17,539 -- 02:18:20,875
Right wing will sidestep to the left...
1801
02:18:21,043 -- 02:18:23,336
...thinning out
to twice the present distance.
1802
02:18:23,504 -- 02:18:26,839
You see the colors?
They will end up down to the extreme left.
1803
02:18:27,007 -- 02:18:31,552
When you reach that point,
we are going to refuse the line.
1804
02:18:31,720 -- 02:18:32,804
Understand?
1805
02:18:32,972 -- 02:18:34,931
We'll form a new line at right angles.
1806
02:18:35,099 -- 02:18:37,058
We'll pull up as much of a reserve
as possible.
1807
02:18:37,226 -- 02:18:40,520
We've got to be able to counter-attack
whenever there's a hole.
1808
02:18:40,688 -- 02:18:42,355
-Any questions?
-No, sir.
1809
02:18:42,523 -- 02:18:44,232
Fine. Move!
1810
02:18:45,234 -- 02:18:47,568
Lieutenant.
You fellows, on the double.
1811
02:19:00,249 -- 02:19:01,666
LAWRENCE:
Come on!
1812
02:19:44,960 -- 02:19:47,295
-How are you, Andrew?
-I'm fine, sir. And you?
1813
02:19:47,463 -- 02:19:48,880
A bit worn.
1814
02:19:49,048 -- 02:19:53,009
-The boys are putting up a hell of a fight.
-They are indeed.
1815
02:20:11,487 -- 02:20:13,362
[GUNFIRE CONTINUES]
1816
02:21:02,037 -- 02:21:04,997
I got me one. I got me a reb.
1817
02:21:05,165 -- 02:21:06,916
Buster! Are you all right?
1818
02:21:07,084 -- 02:21:10,211
I'll be fine in a minute,
but plays hell with me target practice.
1819
02:21:10,379 -- 02:21:11,796
The surgeon will see to it.
1820
02:21:11,964 -- 02:21:14,257
No. A little bandage is all I'll be needing.
1821
02:21:14,424 -- 02:21:16,926
A few minutes off my feet.
My brogans are killing me.
1822
02:21:17,094 -- 02:21:19,428
Colonel, my men are getting low
on ammunition.
1823
02:21:19,805 -- 02:21:22,265
Go over to the 83rd.
Ask them to send what they can.
1824
02:21:22,432 -- 02:21:26,060
Lieutenant, go get from the wounded
and from the others anything you can.
1825
02:21:26,228 -- 02:21:29,564
-Pick up what you can from anywhere.
-Here they come, sir!
1826
02:21:30,232 -- 02:21:32,150
[CONFEDERATES YELLING]
1827
02:22:16,445 -- 02:22:19,071
Keep up the fire!
Fill your holes down here!
1828
02:22:39,301 -- 02:22:41,677
Colonel? Colonel?
1829
02:23:00,864 -- 02:23:02,198
SOLDIER:
There they go!
1830
02:23:14,753 -- 02:23:16,170
I'll be damned.
1831
02:23:18,173 -- 02:23:21,259
SOLDIER 1 : They keep coming!
How long will they keep coming?
1832
02:23:22,052 -- 02:23:25,388
SOLDIER 2: I don't have much left.
Two shots. That's what I got.
1833
02:23:25,555 -- 02:23:29,016
They keep coming on the flanks.
They keep moving to the left more.
1834
02:23:29,184 -- 02:23:32,895
They can't send help from the 83rd.
They say they got their own troubles.
1835
02:23:33,063 -- 02:23:36,482
-Colonel, sir! We'd like to report.
-What?
1836
02:23:36,650 -- 02:23:38,526
Vincent is badly wounded.
1837
02:23:39,236 -- 02:23:41,862
He got hit a few minutes
after the fight started.
1838
02:23:42,030 -- 02:23:45,157
We've been reinforced at the top of the hill
by Weed's brigade up front.
1839
02:23:45,325 -- 02:23:47,410
This is what they tell me.
But Weed is dead.
1840
02:23:47,577 -- 02:23:50,121
So they moved Hazlett's
battery of artillery up there.
1841
02:23:50,289 -- 02:23:52,290
But Hazlett's dead. Far as I can tell--
1842
02:23:52,457 -- 02:23:54,458
Can you can get ammunition
from up there?
1843
02:23:54,626 -- 02:23:57,128
I don't know. It s a mess.
But they're holding good.
1844
02:23:57,296 -- 02:23:59,338
The rebs are having a hard time climbing.
1845
02:23:59,506 -- 02:24:01,799
-It's a steep hill.
-We'll need the ammunition.
1846
02:24:01,967 -- 02:24:04,552
Colonel, sir, the better of my men
are wounded.
1847
02:24:04,720 -- 02:24:07,972
If the rebs come up that hill any stronger,
we can't stop them.
1848
02:24:08,140 -- 02:24:10,599
Send out word to take ammunition
from the wounded.
1849
02:24:10,767 -- 02:24:12,935
-Make every round count. Go!
-Here they come again!
1850
02:24:13,103 -- 02:24:14,854
[CONFEDERATES YELLING]
1851
02:24:15,022 -- 02:24:17,023
Ready, boys!
1852
02:24:37,919 -- 02:24:40,046
Come on, keep it coming! Keep it up, lads!
1853
02:25:15,290 -- 02:25:16,665
MAN:
Ready!
1854
02:25:16,833 -- 02:25:18,626
Aim!
1855
02:25:19,461 -- 02:25:20,544
Pour it on, boys!
1856
02:25:31,390 -- 02:25:33,641
Keep at them! Keep up your fire!
1857
02:25:50,867 -- 02:25:53,494
OFFICER:
Here they come, boys!
1858
02:27:11,740 -- 02:27:13,282
Go plug that hole over there!
1859
02:27:25,962 -- 02:27:27,796
Tom. Tom!
1860
02:27:43,772 -- 02:27:45,105
Tom!
1861
02:27:45,273 -- 02:27:46,815
[GUN CLICKS EMPTY]
1862
02:27:46,983 -- 02:27:48,108
Tom!
1863
02:28:12,801 -- 02:28:15,302
Colonel, sir.
Sir, half my men are down.
1864
02:28:15,470 -- 02:28:17,930
Most of the rest are wounded.
The left is too thin.
1865
02:28:18,098 -- 02:28:19,890
-How is our ammunition?
-Almost gone.
1866
02:28:20,058 -- 02:28:24,061
PRIVATE: Sir, we're running out.
We don't have much left to shoot with.
1867
02:28:24,229 -- 02:28:25,813
Some boys got nothing at all.
1868
02:28:26,022 -- 02:28:27,690
What do we do for ammunition?
1869
02:28:27,857 -- 02:28:30,609
OFFICER: My boys picked up
reb muskets and fired back with them.
1870
02:28:30,777 -- 02:28:32,903
-We ought to pull out.
-No, we can't do that.
1871
02:28:33,071 -- 02:28:34,989
We can't hold them again, sir.
1872
02:28:35,156 -- 02:28:37,825
If we don't, they go right over the hill
and the flank caves in.
1873
02:28:41,329 -- 02:28:42,496
KILRAIN:
Sir.
1874
02:28:43,206 -- 02:28:44,248
Here they come.
1875
02:28:45,000 -- 02:28:47,334
[CONFEDERATES YELLING
IN DISTANCE]
1876
02:28:49,212 -- 02:28:51,922
We can't run away.
If we stay here, we can't shoot.
1877
02:28:52,090 -- 02:28:53,382
So let's fiE bayonets.
1878
02:28:57,178 -- 02:29:00,014
We'll have the advantage
moving down the hill.
1879
02:29:01,850 -- 02:29:04,602
They must be tired if we are.
So fix bayonets.
1880
02:29:04,769 -- 02:29:07,521
Ellis, you take the left wing.
I'll take the right.
1881
02:29:07,689 -- 02:29:09,231
Right wheel forward,
the whole regiment.
1882
02:29:09,399 -- 02:29:11,692
-You mean charge?
LAWRENCE: Here's what we do.
1883
02:29:11,860 -- 02:29:14,194
We're going to charge
swinging down the hill.
1884
02:29:14,362 -- 02:29:16,530
Just like we pulled back to the left side...
1885
02:29:16,698 -- 02:29:18,699
...we'll swing it down like a door.
1886
02:29:18,867 -- 02:29:22,369
We'll sweep them down the hill
as they come up. Understand?
1887
02:29:22,537 -- 02:29:24,580
-Does everybody understand?
-Yes, sir.
1888
02:29:24,748 -- 02:29:26,415
Ellis, take the left wing.
1889
02:29:26,583 -- 02:29:30,252
When I command, the whole regiment
goes forward swinging down to the right.
1890
02:29:30,795 -- 02:29:32,421
All right, sir. Fine.
1891
02:29:34,466 -- 02:29:35,883
Move.
1892
02:29:38,720 -- 02:29:40,387
Bayonets!
1893
02:30:03,411 -- 02:30:05,412
[YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
1894
02:30:05,580 -- 02:30:08,123
SPEAR:
Come on! Let's go! Move!
1895
02:30:08,291 -- 02:30:09,917
Quickly, boys! Quickly!
1896
02:30:18,968 -- 02:30:21,136
SPEAR:
Let's go!
1897
02:30:22,931 -- 02:30:25,099
Bayonets!
1898
02:30:32,607 -- 02:30:33,857
Draw!
1899
02:30:35,318 -- 02:30:36,443
Bayonets!
1900
02:30:36,611 -- 02:30:37,945
[MEN YELLING]
1901
02:30:39,280 -- 02:30:40,656
Left swing, right wheel.
1902
02:30:40,949 -- 02:30:42,157
SPEAR:
Right wheel!
1903
02:30:43,493 -- 02:31:09,893
Charge!
1904
02:32:17,712 -- 02:32:18,921
[GUN CLICKS EMPTY]
1905
02:32:24,928 -- 02:32:26,553
The pistol.
1906
02:32:27,096 -- 02:32:28,472
Your prisoner, sir.
1907
02:32:32,101 -- 02:32:33,894
Wait here.
1908
02:32:58,920 -- 02:33:02,297
By God, colonel,
the boys are still advancing.
1909
02:33:02,757 -- 02:33:05,592
-You better stop them.
-They're on their way to Richmond.
1910
02:33:05,760 -- 02:33:08,387
-Richmond!
-They've done enough for today.
1911
02:33:08,555 -- 02:33:11,098
I want you to meet
this fellow from Alabama.
1912
02:33:11,266 -- 02:33:14,685
Captain Hawkins, this is my brother,
Colonel Chamberlain.
1913
02:33:15,436 -- 02:33:16,937
Sir.
1914
02:33:17,814 -- 02:33:19,356
May I have some water?
1915
02:33:19,524 -- 02:33:20,941
Yes.
1916
02:33:22,527 -- 02:33:24,486
Sure. Tom, get this man a canteen.
1917
02:33:24,654 -- 02:33:26,822
Yes, sir. Right this way.
1918
02:33:34,289 -- 02:33:35,622
[OFFICER YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
1919
02:33:46,968 -- 02:33:48,343
LAWRENCE:
How you doing?
1920
02:33:48,803 -- 02:33:50,304
Twice.
1921
02:33:50,471 -- 02:33:52,973
Would you believe, for the love of Mary?
1922
02:33:53,141 -- 02:33:54,391
Twice.
1923
02:34:00,648 -- 02:34:04,443
And how are you, colonel, darling,
this fine day?
1924
02:34:06,529 -- 02:34:08,655
I got it in the armpit.
1925
02:34:09,490 -- 02:34:12,326
For the love of God, in the bloody armpit.
1926
02:34:13,036 -- 02:34:15,746
-How is he?
-It's an arm.
1927
02:34:15,914 -- 02:34:17,831
KILRAIN: Only an arm.
You got to lose something.
1928
02:34:18,666 -- 02:34:20,167
It might as well be an arm.
1929
02:34:20,335 -- 02:34:23,837
I can part with that easier than other
mechanics of nature, and that's the truth.
1930
02:34:30,011 -- 02:34:31,678
I could do with a nip right now.
1931
02:34:31,846 -- 02:34:34,097
I'll see what I can do.
1932
02:34:34,265 -- 02:34:36,224
You do pretty good.
1933
02:34:40,188 -- 02:34:42,522
Colonel. Colonel?
1934
02:34:43,107 -- 02:34:45,192
I'm right here, Buster. I'm right here.
1935
02:34:48,529 -- 02:34:50,113
The army was blessed.
1936
02:34:53,201 -- 02:34:57,955
I want to tell you, just in case...
1937
02:35:00,375 -- 02:35:02,000
...that I never served....
1938
02:35:07,674 -- 02:35:09,883
I've never served with a better man.
1939
02:35:16,516 -- 02:35:17,891
TOZIER:
Don't worry, sir.
1940
02:35:18,309 -- 02:35:20,644
He'll make it. He's a tough old mick.
1941
02:35:56,639 -- 02:36:00,767
Colonel, sir. If you would so honor me.
1942
02:36:10,528 -- 02:36:14,489
Colonel, sir. I've been moving these rebs
with an empty musket.
1943
02:36:15,700 -- 02:36:18,243
LAWRENCE [WHISPERING]:
Not so loud.
1944
02:36:19,871 -- 02:36:21,830
Colonel.
1945
02:36:23,207 -- 02:36:25,375
You're ordered to go to the top
of the big hill.
1946
02:36:25,543 -- 02:36:27,544
My New Yorkers will take your prisoners.
1947
02:36:27,712 -- 02:36:29,004
Yes, sir.
1948
02:36:29,172 -- 02:36:31,131
RICE:
We watched from our position above.
1949
02:36:31,632 -- 02:36:33,800
It's the damnedest thing I ever saw.
1950
02:36:33,968 -- 02:36:37,637
May I--?
May I shake your hand, sir?
1951
02:36:40,141 -- 02:36:45,270
Colonel, one thing.
The name of this place, this hill....
1952
02:36:45,438 -- 02:36:46,730
Has it got a name, this hill?
1953
02:36:47,231 -- 02:36:51,026
This is Little Round Top.
That's the name of the hill you defended.
1954
02:36:51,194 -- 02:36:54,529
The big one you're going up to,
that's Big Round Top.
1955
02:36:56,074 -- 02:36:59,826
Is that so? I guess I'll remember that.
1956
02:37:09,504 -- 02:37:12,881
Ellis, move the men out.
I'm going to go ahead.
1957
02:38:12,400 -- 02:38:13,525
[SOLDIER MOANING]
1958
02:38:23,286 -- 02:38:24,411
Sam?
1959
02:38:25,288 -- 02:38:27,122
We drugged him, sir.
1960
02:38:27,290 -- 02:38:29,457
It'd be better if he slept.
1961
02:38:30,710 -- 02:38:32,669
Didn't see much.
1962
02:38:33,337 -- 02:38:36,006
The boys went in. Hit the rocks.
1963
02:38:39,594 -- 02:38:41,094
How did it go, Pete?
1964
02:38:43,723 -- 02:38:45,182
Fine, Sam.
1965
02:38:45,683 -- 02:38:47,642
We take those rocks?
1966
02:38:48,561 -- 02:38:49,769
Most of them.
1967
02:38:49,937 -- 02:38:51,771
Worst...
1968
02:38:52,356 -- 02:38:55,233
...ground I ever saw.
1969
02:38:55,401 -- 02:38:56,943
You know that?
1970
02:38:59,071 -- 02:39:00,947
They call it...
1971
02:39:01,115 -- 02:39:04,284
...Devil s Den. It's a good name for it.
1972
02:39:08,372 -- 02:39:10,165
[HOOD GROANING]
1973
02:39:10,875 -- 02:39:12,459
What casualties?
1974
02:39:12,627 -- 02:39:13,793
Don't know yet.
1975
02:39:15,880 -- 02:39:17,464
Got to give my boys credit.
1976
02:39:22,011 -- 02:39:26,681
You should've let me go to the right.
1977
02:39:27,808 -- 02:39:32,604
We should've gone to the right.
1978
02:39:32,772 -- 02:39:35,190
CULLEN:
He needs to rest some.
1979
02:39:48,079 -- 02:39:50,205
[MAN GROANING]
1980
02:39:52,208 -- 02:39:53,917
[HORSE NEIGHS]
1981
02:40:36,335 -- 02:40:38,128
You summoned me, sir?
1982
02:40:40,047 -- 02:40:41,381
Harrison.
1983
02:40:43,718 -- 02:40:45,260
I did.
1984
02:40:48,431 -- 02:40:49,973
I've got some night work.
1985
02:40:50,141 -- 02:40:51,391
Are you up to it?
1986
02:40:51,559 -- 02:40:54,561
"All the world will be in love with night...
1987
02:40:54,729 -- 02:40:58,023
...and pay no worship to the garish sun."
1988
02:40:58,983 -- 02:41:02,902
When this is all over,
I do look forward to seeing you on stage.
1989
02:41:05,072 -- 02:41:07,407
HARRISON:
What are the general s wishes?
1990
02:41:14,498 -- 02:41:17,751
I want you to go out on the right,
scout the Federal position.
1991
02:41:17,918 -- 02:41:21,713
Their condition, what they've got
in reserve, what they're bringing up.
1992
02:41:21,881 -- 02:41:24,257
It'll probably take all night.
But I want it right and clear.
1993
02:41:24,425 -- 02:41:27,177
-Your obedient servant.
-Good.
1994
02:41:27,345 -- 02:41:32,057
Now, Harrison, it'll be dangerous.
And I do appreciate this.
1995
02:41:32,224 -- 02:41:34,392
Thank you, sir.
1996
02:41:35,102 -- 02:41:38,021
But I must confess,
the thing that bothers me about this job...
1997
02:41:38,189 -- 02:41:40,023
...is the absence of an audience.
1998
02:41:40,191 -- 02:41:42,150
When you do it right, no one knows it.
1999
02:41:42,318 -- 02:41:45,028
Nobody ever watches your work.
Do you see?
2000
02:41:45,863 -- 02:41:48,281
That's very hard on an actor.
2001
02:41:53,329 -- 02:41:56,122
This current creation is marvelous.
2002
02:41:56,582 -- 02:41:58,958
I'm a poor half-witted farmer,
do you see...
2003
02:41:59,126 -- 02:42:03,338
...terrified of soldiers. And me lovely
young wife has run off with a corporal.
2004
02:42:03,506 -- 02:42:05,632
And I'm out scouring
the countryside for her.
2005
02:42:06,050 -- 02:42:09,636
Sorrowful, pitiful sight I am.
People looking down their noses...
2006
02:42:09,804 -- 02:42:11,554
...grinning behind me back.
2007
02:42:12,473 -- 02:42:14,974
And the whole time telling me
exactly what I wanna know...
2008
02:42:15,142 -- 02:42:17,727
...about who's where, how many,
how long ago.
2009
02:42:17,895 -- 02:42:20,438
And them not even knowing
they're doing it.
2010
02:42:20,606 -- 02:42:22,482
Too busy feeling contemptuous.
2011
02:42:24,735 -- 02:42:28,071
There are many people, general, don't give
a damn for a human soul, you know that?
2012
02:42:28,697 -- 02:42:30,532
Strange thing is...
2013
02:42:30,699 -- 02:42:35,453
...after playing this poor fool farmer for a
while, I can't help but feel sorry for him...
2014
02:42:35,913 -- 02:42:38,206
...because no one cares.
2015
02:42:38,958 -- 02:42:40,500
No one cares.
2016
02:42:42,795 -- 02:42:44,546
Well...
2017
02:42:45,339 -- 02:42:47,841
...we all have our sacrifices to make,
don't we?
2018
02:42:48,008 -- 02:42:50,593
Indeed we do, sir.
2019
02:42:54,014 -- 02:42:56,850
All right, Harrison, on your horse,
get going.
2020
02:42:57,685 -- 02:42:59,269
-And, Harrison...
-Sir?
2021
02:42:59,437 -- 02:43:01,896
...you be real careful, you hear?
2022
02:43:02,356 -- 02:43:04,065
Thank you, sir.
2023
02:43:04,692 -- 02:43:06,359
LONGSTREET:
Go on.
2024
02:43:10,906 -- 02:43:12,907
[BAND PLAYING HYMN]
2025
02:43:27,173 -- 02:43:29,382
LEE:
General, I m very glad to see you well.
2026
02:43:29,550 -- 02:43:32,051
LONGSTREET: I've just come by
for my orders, sir.
2027
02:43:39,643 -- 02:43:42,020
It would appear
that General Stuart has returned.
2028
02:43:44,273 -- 02:43:45,773
LONGSTREET:
The prodigal son.
2029
02:44:14,553 -- 02:44:17,931
It was very close this afternoon.
2030
02:44:21,477 -- 02:44:22,602
Sir?
2031
02:44:22,770 -- 02:44:24,729
They nearly broke.
2032
02:44:25,231 -- 02:44:27,524
I could feel them breaking.
2033
02:44:28,150 -- 02:44:31,778
There for a moment I thought I saw
our flags go up the hill.
2034
02:44:40,913 -- 02:44:43,122
It wasn't that close.
2035
02:44:43,290 -- 02:44:47,293
The attacks were not properly coordinated.
I do not know why.
2036
02:44:47,461 -- 02:44:49,796
And nevertheless, we nearly won the day.
2037
02:44:51,131 -- 02:44:54,384
I could see a clear road
all the way to Washington.
2038
02:44:56,387 -- 02:44:58,096
[SIGHS]
2039
02:44:59,848 -- 02:45:01,474
How is it with General Hood?
2040
02:45:03,852 -- 02:45:06,479
I think he'll live. May lose an arm.
2041
02:45:06,647 -- 02:45:07,981
Dear God.
2042
02:45:08,649 -- 02:45:11,484
I couldn't spare General Hood.
2043
02:45:12,486 -- 02:45:15,947
So many good men were lost this day.
2044
02:45:17,074 -- 02:45:18,700
Sir?
2045
02:45:19,785 -- 02:45:22,996
Lo did take the peach orchard
and wheat field.
2046
02:45:23,163 -- 02:45:25,415
But he couldn't get up that ridge.
2047
02:45:26,375 -- 02:45:31,045
And Hood, he seized the Devil s Den,
but he couldn't take the little rocky hill.
2048
02:45:32,381 -- 02:45:35,550
The Federals still hold the heights.
And they're reinforced.
2049
02:45:36,885 -- 02:45:38,428
General?
2050
02:45:39,346 -- 02:45:41,889
That way around to the right is still open.
2051
02:45:49,273 -- 02:45:51,107
I will think on it, general.
2052
02:45:51,275 -- 02:45:55,528
We have enough artillery
for one more good fight, but just one.
2053
02:45:55,696 -- 02:45:58,448
I know. Let me think on it.
2054
02:45:58,907 -- 02:46:01,367
-General--
-I am glad to see you well.
2055
02:46:01,535 -- 02:46:03,536
We will speak again in the morning.
2056
02:46:25,809 -- 02:46:28,269
You know, hearing you talk
about monkeys and trees...
2057
02:46:28,437 -- 02:46:31,147
...I remember the time
during a cannonade on the peninsula.
2058
02:46:31,315 -- 02:46:33,816
There was one tree
for the men to hide behind.
2059
02:46:33,984 -- 02:46:37,737
It was a skinny little tree
and the boys, they fell in behind it...
2060
02:46:37,905 -- 02:46:41,199
...in a long thin line
which moved just like a pigtail.
2061
02:46:41,367 -- 02:46:43,242
It swayed to one side, then the other.
2062
02:46:43,410 -- 02:46:45,703
A shell came this way,
the line swayed that way.
2063
02:46:45,871 -- 02:46:48,414
A cannonball came that way,
the line swayed this way.
2064
02:46:48,582 -- 02:46:49,916
It was a thing to see.
2065
02:46:50,084 -- 02:46:53,378
George, what has that got to do
with what we're talking about?
2066
02:46:59,468 -- 02:47:01,177
General.
2067
02:47:03,138 -- 02:47:05,890
Carry on, gentlemen.
Don't let me interrupt the revival.
2068
02:47:06,058 -- 02:47:08,976
General, you're just in time.
2069
02:47:09,144 -- 02:47:13,523
I've been trying to persuade George here
of the modern, scientific...
2070
02:47:13,691 -- 02:47:16,275
...theories of Charles Darwin.
The theory of evolution.
2071
02:47:16,443 -- 02:47:19,570
The notion that all mankind
is descended from the ape.
2072
02:47:20,239 -- 02:47:21,906
He does not subscribe.
2073
02:47:22,074 -- 02:47:23,616
-That so?
PICKETT: I do not.
2074
02:47:23,784 -- 02:47:27,620
I've ordered General Armistead to stop
filling his head with heathen blasphemies.
2075
02:47:27,788 -- 02:47:30,540
Now, you are to devote
your reflective moments to study...
2076
02:47:30,708 -- 02:47:32,959
...in matters of military significance.
2077
02:47:33,127 -- 02:47:34,460
Ordered me.
2078
02:47:34,628 -- 02:47:38,214
Or perhaps appropriating
some more of this fine whiskey here.
2079
02:47:38,382 -- 02:47:40,425
-Absolutely.
-Would you care for?
2080
02:47:40,592 -- 02:47:41,634
No, thank you.
2081
02:47:41,802 -- 02:47:44,887
Surely the commanding general
shares my deep feelings of disgust...
2082
02:47:45,055 -- 02:47:47,807
...at this simian suggestion.
2083
02:47:49,101 -- 02:47:53,521
I suppose there's some pretty smart folk
that take Darwin for the Gospel.
2084
02:47:53,689 -- 02:47:58,443
They would not be invited to join
George's ever-shrinking circle of friends.
2085
02:47:58,610 -- 02:48:00,361
General Longstreet, sir.
2086
02:48:00,529 -- 02:48:04,157
I intend to lay this matter to rest
for once and for all time.
2087
02:48:04,324 -- 02:48:05,908
Good.
2088
02:48:09,955 -- 02:48:12,457
Sirs, perhaps there are
those among you...
2089
02:48:12,624 -- 02:48:15,376
...who think that you are
descended from an ape.
2090
02:48:17,212 -- 02:48:19,338
I suppose it's possible
there are those of you...
2091
02:48:19,506 -- 02:48:22,341
...who believe that I'm descended
from an ape...
2092
02:48:22,509 -- 02:48:25,428
...but I challenge the man
to step forward...
2093
02:48:25,596 -- 02:48:28,473
...who believes that General Lee
is descended from an ape.
2094
02:48:28,640 -- 02:48:30,892
-Here, here.
-Not likely.
2095
02:48:31,059 -- 02:48:36,814
George, all science trembles before
the searing logic of your fiery intellect.
2096
02:48:47,117 -- 02:48:50,703
So exactly how many of your relatives
are there that are apes?
2097
02:48:57,669 -- 02:48:59,504
Well....
2098
02:49:00,798 -- 02:49:03,257
What do you hear about Sam Hood?
2099
02:49:03,717 -- 02:49:05,551
He may lose an arm.
2100
02:49:06,845 -- 02:49:10,014
Dick Garnett ain't fit. Can't hardly walk.
2101
02:49:10,182 -- 02:49:13,893
Thing is, if there's a fight,
he can't stand to stay out of it.
2102
02:49:14,436 -- 02:49:17,104
But if you ordered him to stay out....
2103
02:49:20,275 -- 02:49:22,401
I don't suppose you could do that.
2104
02:49:23,403 -- 02:49:29,116
[MAN SINGING
"KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN"]
2105
02:49:52,099 -- 02:49:55,142
Mm-hm. That boy can sing.
2106
02:49:56,562 -- 02:49:59,063
That's "Kathleen Mavourneen."
2107
02:50:05,028 -- 02:50:07,321
What do you hear about Hancock?
2108
02:50:08,156 -- 02:50:10,157
Ran into him today.
2109
02:50:11,952 -- 02:50:13,911
He's out there about a mile or so.
2110
02:50:14,079 -- 02:50:18,791
Just a mile or so. And he was tough.
2111
02:50:18,959 -- 02:50:20,626
Very tough today.
2112
02:50:20,794 -- 02:50:22,587
ARMISTEAD:
He's the best they got.
2113
02:50:22,754 -- 02:50:25,631
God don't make them any better.
And that's a fact.
2114
02:50:27,968 -- 02:50:29,927
LONGSTREET:
Well....
2115
02:50:30,888 -- 02:50:34,140
ARMISTEAD: I'd like to go over to see him
as soon as I can.
2116
02:50:36,518 -- 02:50:38,644
The last time I saw Winn...
2117
02:50:40,856 -- 02:50:44,066
...we played that song. That very song.
2118
02:50:44,234 -- 02:50:45,651
[MAN CONTINUES SINGING]
2119
02:50:45,819 -- 02:50:49,280
Back in California,
we were all together for the last time.
2120
02:50:50,115 -- 02:50:51,824
Before we broke up.
2121
02:50:52,784 -- 02:50:54,952
Spring of '61 .
2122
02:51:01,835 -- 02:51:03,669
Almira Hancock.
2123
02:51:03,837 -- 02:51:06,505
Do you remember Almira, Hancock's wife?
2124
02:51:07,090 -- 02:51:08,674
Beautiful woman.
2125
02:51:08,842 -- 02:51:12,678
Most perfect woman I ever saw.
2126
02:51:14,598 -- 02:51:16,015
They were a beautiful couple.
2127
02:51:17,851 -- 02:51:19,018
Beautiful.
2128
02:51:22,689 -- 02:51:25,191
Garnett was with me that night.
2129
02:51:26,735 -- 02:51:31,155
A lot of fellows from the old outfit.
People standing around singing...
2130
02:51:31,323 -- 02:51:33,199
...in the blue uniform.
2131
02:51:33,367 -- 02:51:36,869
We were leaving the next day.
2132
02:51:37,037 -- 02:51:40,373
Some going north. Some going south.
2133
02:51:41,792 -- 02:51:43,668
Splitting up.
2134
02:51:46,296 -- 02:51:47,797
A soldier's farewell.
2135
02:51:48,840 -- 02:51:50,841
"Goodbye. Good luck.
2136
02:51:51,843 -- 02:51:53,219
I'll see you in hell."
2137
02:51:53,387 -- 02:51:54,720
[ARMISTEAD CHUCKLES]
2138
02:51:54,888 -- 02:51:56,430
Do you remember that?
2139
02:52:01,395 -- 02:52:02,770
[SIGHS]
2140
02:52:04,439 -- 02:52:06,482
Towards the end of the evening...
2141
02:52:07,693 -- 02:52:09,986
...we all sat around the piano.
2142
02:52:11,530 -- 02:52:13,739
Almira played...
2143
02:52:14,950 -- 02:52:18,911
...that song there,
that was the one she played.
2144
02:52:20,914 -- 02:52:24,417
Maybe for years, maybe forever....
2145
02:52:26,920 -- 02:52:29,046
I'll never forget that.
2146
02:52:34,428 -- 02:52:36,303
You know how it was, Pete.
2147
02:52:45,063 -- 02:52:48,190
Winn was like a brother to me.
Remember?
2148
02:52:50,444 -- 02:52:52,319
Towards the end of the evening...
2149
02:52:55,240 -- 02:52:57,116
...things got a little rough.
2150
02:52:57,284 -- 02:52:59,493
We all began to....
2151
02:53:01,455 -- 02:53:03,372
Well...
2152
02:53:04,499 -- 02:53:06,542
...there were a lot of tears.
2153
02:53:10,172 -- 02:53:12,631
I went over to Hancock.
2154
02:53:13,383 -- 02:53:16,969
I took him by the shoulder. I said,
"Winn...
2155
02:53:18,764 -- 02:53:20,473
...so help me...
2156
02:53:21,516 -- 02:53:24,727
...if I ever raise my hand against you...
2157
02:53:24,895 -- 02:53:26,604
...may God strike me dead."
2158
02:53:35,155 -- 02:53:37,406
Ain't seen him since.
2159
02:53:38,158 -- 02:53:40,117
He was at Malvern Hill...
2160
02:53:40,535 -- 02:53:45,331
...White Oak Swamp,
Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg.
2161
02:53:49,211 -- 02:53:53,839
One of these days
I will see him, I'm afraid.
2162
02:53:54,007 -- 02:53:56,342
Across that...
2163
02:53:56,510 -- 02:54:00,179
...small deadly space.
2164
02:54:08,105 -- 02:54:11,524
I thought about sitting this one out.
2165
02:54:11,691 -- 02:54:13,400
But I can't do that.
2166
02:54:15,112 -- 02:54:17,988
That wouldn't be right either.
2167
02:54:24,121 -- 02:54:25,788
I guess not.
2168
02:54:30,585 -- 02:54:32,545
Thank you, Peter.
2169
02:54:36,550 -- 02:54:38,384
I had to talk about that.
2170
02:54:45,934 -- 02:54:49,645
I'm sending Almira Hancock...
2171
02:54:50,355 -- 02:54:53,899
....a small package to be opened...
2172
02:54:54,067 -- 02:54:56,861
...in the event of my death.
2173
02:55:01,366 -- 02:55:03,159
You'll drop by and see her...
2174
02:55:03,702 -- 02:55:05,619
...after this is over.
2175
02:55:05,787 -- 02:55:07,580
Won't you, Pete?
2176
02:55:16,464 -- 02:55:18,090
Thank you.
2177
02:55:21,261 -- 02:55:23,554
What day is it now, major?
2178
02:55:26,266 -- 02:55:28,225
It's long after midnight, sir.
2179
02:55:28,393 -- 02:55:29,810
It's already Friday.
2180
02:55:30,020 -- 02:55:33,314
-Friday, July 3?
-Yes, sir.
2181
02:55:33,481 -- 02:55:36,984
-Then tomorrow is the Fourth of July.
-Sir?
2182
02:55:37,152 -- 02:55:39,278
Independence Day.
2183
02:55:40,113 -- 02:55:41,572
Huh.
2184
02:55:41,740 -- 02:55:45,201
-I'd quite forgotten.
-The good Lord has a sense of humor.
2185
02:55:45,827 -- 02:55:48,037
I'm very sorry to keep you up so late.
2186
02:55:48,205 -- 02:55:49,538
It is my pleasure.
2187
02:55:49,706 -- 02:55:51,790
We should have a larger staff.
2188
02:55:51,958 -- 02:55:54,627
I'd be offended, sir.
2189
02:55:54,794 -- 02:55:56,337
I can do the work.
2190
02:55:56,504 -- 02:55:57,963
Very well.
2191
02:56:00,050 -- 02:56:02,718
General Stuart is waiting to see you, sir.
2192
02:56:03,595 -- 02:56:07,097
-Shall I bring him in?
-Of course.
2193
02:56:09,601 -- 02:56:11,352
-Major?
-Yes, sir.
2194
02:56:11,728 -- 02:56:14,563
General Stuart and I
must not be disturbed.
2195
02:56:15,857 -- 02:56:17,858
-Very well, sir.
-Thank you.
2196
02:56:21,404 -- 02:56:23,864
TAYLOR:
General Lee will see you now, sir.
2197
02:56:35,377 -- 02:56:36,835
You wish to see me, sir.
2198
02:56:39,339 -- 02:56:40,631
[SIGHS]
2199
02:56:42,259 -- 02:56:48,597
It is the opinion of some excellent officers
that you have let us all down.
2200
02:56:48,765 -- 02:56:51,517
Sir, if you will please tell me
who these gentlemen are?
2201
02:56:51,685 -- 02:56:53,644
There will be none of that.
There is no time.
2202
02:56:53,812 -- 02:56:55,980
I ask that I be allowed to defend my--
2203
02:56:56,147 -- 02:56:57,856
There is no time.
2204
02:56:59,359 -- 02:57:01,151
General Stuart.
2205
02:57:03,488 -- 02:57:07,366
Your mission was to free this army...
2206
02:57:07,534 -- 02:57:09,201
...from the enemy cavalry.
2207
02:57:09,369 -- 02:57:12,788
And to report any movement
by the enemy's main body.
2208
02:57:13,039 -- 02:57:15,040
That mission was not fulfilled.
2209
02:57:15,208 -- 02:57:16,917
You left here...
2210
02:57:17,085 -- 02:57:21,171
...with no word of your movement
or movement of the enemy for days.
2211
02:57:21,339 -- 02:57:23,882
Meanwhile we were engaged
and drawn into battle...
2212
02:57:24,050 -- 02:57:27,553
...without adequate knowledge
of the enemy's strength or position.
2213
02:57:27,721 -- 02:57:29,305
Without knowledge of the ground.
2214
02:57:29,472 -- 02:57:33,726
So it is only by God's grace
that we did not meet disaster here.
2215
02:57:33,893 -- 02:57:35,561
General Lee, there were reasons.
2216
02:57:35,729 -- 02:57:39,064
LEE: Perhaps you
misunderstood my orders.
2217
02:57:39,774 -- 02:57:42,276
Perhaps I did not make myself clear.
2218
02:57:42,944 -- 02:57:46,864
Well, sir, this must be made very clear.
2219
02:57:47,699 -- 02:57:49,241
You, sir...
2220
02:57:49,409 -- 02:57:52,953
...with your cavalry,
are the eyes of this army.
2221
02:57:53,121 -- 02:57:56,040
Without your cavalry, we are made blind.
2222
02:57:56,207 -- 02:57:58,292
That has already happened once.
2223
02:57:58,460 -- 02:58:02,421
It must never, never happen again.
2224
02:58:10,972 -- 02:58:14,850
-Since I no longer hold the general s--
-I told you there is no time for that!
2225
02:58:15,018 -- 02:58:16,143
There is no time.
2226
02:58:32,952 -- 02:58:36,205
There is another fight coming tomorrow
and we need you.
2227
02:58:36,373 -- 02:58:39,291
We need every man. God knows.
2228
02:58:41,336 -- 02:58:44,254
You must take what I have told you...
2229
02:58:44,422 -- 02:58:47,674
...and learn from it as a man does.
2230
02:58:49,177 -- 02:58:50,636
There has been a mistake.
2231
02:58:50,804 -- 02:58:53,806
It will not happen again.
I know your quality.
2232
02:58:53,973 -- 02:58:57,393
You are one of the finest cavalry officers
I have ever known...
2233
02:58:57,560 -- 02:59:01,271
...and your service to this army
has been invaluable.
2234
02:59:02,857 -- 02:59:04,733
Now...
2235
02:59:07,278 -- 02:59:10,072
...let us speak no more of this.
2236
02:59:18,289 -- 02:59:21,500
The matter is concluded.
Goodnight, general.
2237
03:00:01,958 -- 03:00:03,417
TOM:
Colonel, sir.
2238
03:00:07,589 -- 03:00:09,882
What are you doing up here?
2239
03:00:10,049 -- 03:00:12,092
I'm just resting my leg.
2240
03:00:16,764 -- 03:00:18,098
All right.
2241
03:00:20,685 -- 03:00:22,644
You sure can see a ways from here.
2242
03:00:24,772 -- 03:00:26,440
LAWRENCE:
Where have you been?
2243
03:00:27,108 -- 03:00:28,775
TOM:
We sent out a detail...
2244
03:00:28,943 -- 03:00:31,403
...and found some more departed souls
down there...
2245
03:00:31,571 -- 03:00:34,740
...and they were carrying coffee
for which they had no more use for.
2246
03:00:34,908 -- 03:00:35,949
You're a ghoul.
2247
03:00:37,577 -- 03:00:38,660
Lawrence.
2248
03:00:41,122 -- 03:00:43,123
You did real good yesterday.
2249
03:00:44,501 -- 03:00:47,211
The way them rebs just kept coming.
2250
03:00:48,505 -- 03:00:50,756
You had to admire them.
2251
03:00:52,383 -- 03:00:54,676
You think they'll come again today?
2252
03:00:55,386 -- 03:00:58,013
It doesn't look like
they're planning to leave.
2253
03:00:59,140 -- 03:01:00,682
We don't have but 100 men.
2254
03:01:00,850 -- 03:01:03,602
Even with the whole flock
from the Second Maine.
2255
03:01:03,770 -- 03:01:05,896
This position's good.
2256
03:01:06,064 -- 03:01:09,483
[CANNONS FIRING IN DISTANCE]
2257
03:01:11,277 -- 03:01:12,402
Diversion.
2258
03:01:14,822 -- 03:01:16,406
Go alert the pickets.
2259
03:01:16,574 -- 03:01:19,284
That may be a diversion.
They may be coming this way again.
2260
03:01:19,452 -- 03:01:21,453
Where's the ammunition I asked for?
2261
03:01:21,621 -- 03:01:24,373
Go check the hospital, see about the boys.
Check on Buster.
2262
03:01:24,541 -- 03:01:26,083
Very well, sir.
2263
03:01:26,251 -- 03:01:27,793
We need another runner.
2264
03:01:27,961 -- 03:01:31,838
I keep going up and down this hill,
my legs are going to fall off.
2265
03:01:33,550 -- 03:01:35,801
[RUMBLING]
2266
03:01:37,512 -- 03:01:39,638
LEE: Morning, General.
LONGSTREET: Morning, sir.
2267
03:01:39,806 -- 03:01:43,183
LEE: Ride with me, if you will.
LONGSTREET: Yes, sir.
2268
03:02:12,672 -- 03:02:15,882
LEE: General Longstreet, you have
General Pickett now and he is fresh.
2269
03:02:16,384 -- 03:02:18,635
I want you to bring your corps forward.
2270
03:02:18,886 -- 03:02:22,723
Take those heights in the center
and split the Federal line.
2271
03:02:28,354 -- 03:02:29,479
Sir, uh...
2272
03:02:29,647 -- 03:02:30,689
[LONGSTREET CLEARS THROAT]
2273
03:02:30,857 -- 03:02:33,442
...my two divisions,
Hood's and McLaws'....
2274
03:02:33,943 -- 03:02:37,779
They executed a forced march yesterday
and went straight into the fight.
2275
03:02:38,031 -- 03:02:39,823
Lost half of their strength.
2276
03:02:40,700 -- 03:02:42,909
Sustained 50 percent casualties, sir.
2277
03:02:43,077 -- 03:02:45,245
They are tired and need rest.
2278
03:02:47,248 -- 03:02:48,415
There are...
2279
03:02:49,125 -- 03:02:52,794
...now three Federal corps on those two
rocky hills on our right flank.
2280
03:02:52,962 -- 03:02:55,297
If I move all my people forward...
2281
03:02:55,548 -- 03:02:57,924
...we won't have a flank at all.
2282
03:02:58,092 -- 03:03:00,218
They'll simply swing around
and crush us.
2283
03:03:02,472 -- 03:03:05,223
They are well entrenched up there.
They aim to fight.
2284
03:03:05,391 -- 03:03:08,143
They got good artillery and plenty of it.
2285
03:03:08,603 -- 03:03:11,563
Sir, any attack we make
will be uphill over open ground.
2286
03:03:12,899 -- 03:03:15,942
How do we communicate?
How do we coordinate attack?
2287
03:03:16,152 -- 03:03:19,029
They're all massed together,
damned near in a circle.
2288
03:03:19,197 -- 03:03:20,739
Good interior lines.
2289
03:03:21,407 -- 03:03:24,618
Anywhere we hit them,
they'll bring up reinforcements in minutes.
2290
03:03:25,286 -- 03:03:29,206
But we try to bring up support,
it has to come from miles away.
2291
03:03:29,791 -- 03:03:31,416
Their cannon will see every move.
2292
03:03:32,919 -- 03:03:35,962
Hell, their cannon are looking down
on us right now.
2293
03:03:36,714 -- 03:03:38,548
In the center, they will break.
2294
03:03:38,716 -- 03:03:39,800
Sir?
2295
03:03:39,967 -- 03:03:41,760
They will break in the center.
2296
03:03:41,928 -- 03:03:45,722
They'll be gaining men from all directions,
guns by the thousands...
2297
03:03:45,890 -- 03:03:49,351
...and Richmond has nothing left
to send us. So, if we stay, we fight.
2298
03:03:49,977 -- 03:03:53,480
If we retreat now,
we will have fought here for two days...
2299
03:03:53,731 -- 03:03:56,441
...and will leave knowing
we could not drive him off.
2300
03:03:57,276 -- 03:04:01,822
And I have never yet left the enemy
in command of the field. No, sir.
2301
03:04:02,156 -- 03:04:05,158
Retreat is no longer an option.
2302
03:04:05,326 -- 03:04:07,619
The enemy has been attacked
on both wings.
2303
03:04:07,787 -- 03:04:09,204
He has reinforced there...
2304
03:04:09,372 -- 03:04:12,457
...and is strongest there on the wings.
The hills and the rocks.
2305
03:04:12,625 -- 03:04:14,126
So the weak point is in the center.
2306
03:04:14,293 -- 03:04:16,586
They have command of the high ground.
2307
03:04:16,754 -- 03:04:19,172
But in that long slope, you see there?
2308
03:04:19,382 -- 03:04:23,218
The long slope in the center,
there's where he's most vulnerable.
2309
03:04:23,678 -- 03:04:27,723
General Pickett's Virginians
are the only people not yet engaged. Yes?
2310
03:04:29,475 -- 03:04:32,519
With General Longstreet in command,
my old warhorse...
2311
03:04:32,770 -- 03:04:35,897
...meeting the enemy face to face
on ground of his choosing...
2312
03:04:36,065 -- 03:04:38,316
...and with honor, we will prevail.
2313
03:04:58,045 -- 03:05:00,464
Sir, a courier from Colonel Rice.
2314
03:05:03,968 -- 03:05:05,218
Colonel Chamberlain.
2315
03:05:08,723 -- 03:05:10,140
That's some climb, sir.
2316
03:05:10,391 -- 03:05:11,975
My men need rations, lieutenant.
2317
03:05:12,143 -- 03:05:15,937
Colonel Rice has entrusted me to tell you
that you're relieved, sir.
2318
03:05:17,482 -- 03:05:18,565
Relieved?
2319
03:05:18,733 -- 03:05:22,152
PITZER: Fresh troops are on their way up
and they'll take over here, sir.
2320
03:05:22,820 -- 03:05:25,405
Colonel Rice wants to give
your people a rest.
2321
03:05:25,698 -- 03:05:28,074
He wants you to fall back,
and I'm to show you the way.
2322
03:05:28,451 -- 03:05:31,161
Fall back. Yeah.
2323
03:05:32,413 -- 03:05:34,623
Ellis, have the men fall in.
We're moving out.
2324
03:05:34,791 -- 03:05:35,874
SPEAR:
Yes, sir.
2325
03:05:36,751 -- 03:05:37,793
Where are we going?
2326
03:05:37,960 -- 03:05:40,754
Oh, sir. Lovely spot.
2327
03:05:41,005 -- 03:05:43,298
Very quiet. Safest place on the battlefield.
2328
03:05:43,591 -- 03:05:45,467
Right smack-dab in the center.
2329
03:06:30,596 -- 03:06:32,097
Yes, sir, general.
2330
03:06:32,682 -- 03:06:34,224
We will attack the center.
2331
03:06:34,892 -- 03:06:37,102
But I think you are right about the flank.
2332
03:06:38,354 -- 03:06:41,648
Hood and McLaws were both very badly
damaged yesterday.
2333
03:06:42,483 -- 03:06:46,903
I'll give you two other divisions:
General Pettigrew and General Trimble.
2334
03:06:47,071 -- 03:06:48,572
They are stronger and rested.
2335
03:06:48,739 -- 03:06:52,909
Now you will have nearly three divisions
at your command, including Pickett.
2336
03:06:53,160 -- 03:06:56,162
Your objective will be
that clump of trees yonder.
2337
03:06:58,749 -- 03:07:01,501
The attack will be preceded
by massed artillery.
2338
03:07:01,669 -- 03:07:05,005
We'll concentrate all of our guns
on that one small area.
2339
03:07:05,256 -- 03:07:08,049
A feu d'enfer, as Napoleon would call it.
2340
03:07:08,718 -- 03:07:12,512
When the artillery has had its effect,
your charge will break the line.
2341
03:07:12,680 -- 03:07:16,182
You will have nearly 15,000 men
at your command, general.
2342
03:07:16,517 -- 03:07:18,560
You may begin whenever you're ready.
2343
03:07:18,728 -- 03:07:21,521
But plan it well.
Do plan it well, I pray you, sir.
2344
03:07:21,731 -- 03:07:22,981
We stake everything on this.
2345
03:07:23,149 -- 03:07:25,692
Sir, with your permission.
2346
03:07:30,406 -- 03:07:32,741
Sir, I've been a soldier all my life.
2347
03:07:33,034 -- 03:07:36,161
I have served from the ranks on up.
You know my service.
2348
03:07:40,541 -- 03:07:44,127
I must tell you now,
I believe this attack will fail.
2349
03:07:49,008 -- 03:07:52,677
No 15,000 men ever made
can take that ridge.
2350
03:07:53,220 -- 03:07:55,847
It's a distance of more than a mile
over open ground.
2351
03:07:56,015 -- 03:07:58,391
When the men come out of the trees
they will be...
2352
03:07:58,768 -- 03:08:01,937
...under fire of Yankee artillery
from all over the field.
2353
03:08:02,104 -- 03:08:03,521
Those are Hancock's boys.
2354
03:08:03,689 -- 03:08:07,943
And now they have the stone wall
like we did at Fredericksburg.
2355
03:08:08,778 -- 03:08:10,737
We do our duty, general.
2356
03:08:11,572 -- 03:08:14,032
We do what we must do.
2357
03:08:14,200 -- 03:08:15,659
Yes, sir.
2358
03:08:17,578 -- 03:08:21,373
Colonel Alexander is in charge
of the artillery and he is very good.
2359
03:08:22,583 -- 03:08:27,087
We will depend on him to drive them off
the ridge before your divisions get there.
2360
03:08:27,588 -- 03:08:30,590
And the men will know what to do.
All 15,000...
2361
03:08:30,758 -- 03:08:34,719
...will concentrate squarely on the center
of that line. That lower ridge there.
2362
03:08:34,929 -- 03:08:37,097
The line is not strong there.
2363
03:08:37,348 -- 03:08:40,433
General Meade has great strength
on both flanks.
2364
03:08:40,893 -- 03:08:42,811
He must be weak in the center.
2365
03:08:42,979 -- 03:08:47,023
I estimate his strength in the center
not to be more than 5,000 men.
2366
03:08:47,274 -- 03:08:51,569
And Colonel Alexander's artillery
will break them up like at Fredericksburg.
2367
03:08:52,071 -- 03:08:53,822
-Yes, sir.
-Farewell.
2368
03:09:02,206 -- 03:09:03,748
What are you thinking, general?
2369
03:09:06,752 -- 03:09:08,712
Well, sir...
2370
03:09:08,879 -- 03:09:11,423
...Pickett's division is from my corps.
2371
03:09:11,590 -- 03:09:14,592
But the other two units
are of A.P. Hill s corps.
2372
03:09:18,973 -- 03:09:20,765
Shouldn't General Hill
lead the attack, sir?
2373
03:09:22,226 -- 03:09:23,268
Say again?
2374
03:09:25,479 -- 03:09:28,106
Shouldn't General Hill lead the attack?
2375
03:09:37,324 -- 03:09:38,616
My apologies, sir.
2376
03:09:43,414 -- 03:09:45,790
I've always been very cautious.
2377
03:09:46,208 -- 03:09:47,417
Very cautious.
2378
03:09:47,585 -- 03:09:49,627
There is no one I trust more.
2379
03:09:56,510 -- 03:09:59,637
Sir, if we can take that ridge....
2380
03:09:59,805 -- 03:10:02,182
We can. And we will.
2381
03:10:09,356 -- 03:10:12,358
General, God go with you.
2382
03:10:32,797 -- 03:10:34,631
George, you are leading attack.
2383
03:10:34,799 -- 03:10:36,341
Now get ready, George.
2384
03:10:36,509 -- 03:10:39,344
Take your men behind the line of trees.
I'll give you details later.
2385
03:10:39,512 -- 03:10:41,346
Now, move, George!
2386
03:10:41,806 -- 03:10:43,098
[YELLS]
2387
03:10:52,441 -- 03:10:54,192
[CHEERING]
2388
03:11:28,310 -- 03:11:31,271
[CHANTING]
2389
03:13:44,822 -- 03:13:45,947
Sir.
2390
03:13:46,115 -- 03:13:50,451
Forgive me the torn trousers, sir.
An officer riding around like this.
2391
03:13:50,995 -- 03:13:52,495
Colonel Alexander.
2392
03:13:53,163 -- 03:13:57,375
Those Federal cannon up on that
little rocky hill can cause some trouble.
2393
03:13:57,751 -- 03:14:00,461
I want you to assign some guns
and keep them silent.
2394
03:14:00,629 -- 03:14:01,713
Then...
2395
03:14:01,880 -- 03:14:04,590
...you move forward
when the infantry advance...
2396
03:14:04,758 -- 03:14:06,342
...keeping the flanks clear.
2397
03:14:06,552 -- 03:14:08,136
Porter, how old are you, son?
2398
03:14:08,304 -- 03:14:11,097
-Sir, I m 28, sir.
-Uh-huh.
2399
03:14:12,308 -- 03:14:16,602
Porter, we must also clear those guns
off that low center ridge right there.
2400
03:14:16,770 -- 03:14:19,063
-That's the main thing.
ALE%NDER: Yes, sir.
2401
03:14:19,231 -- 03:14:22,483
LONGSTREET: I'm relying on you.
-I'll sure keep them shooting.
2402
03:14:22,651 -- 03:14:24,569
LONGSTREET:
Good. Good.
2403
03:14:24,945 -- 03:14:26,863
I want you to use everything you have.
2404
03:14:27,031 -- 03:14:29,365
Maximum effort.
Fire all long-range ordinance.
2405
03:14:29,533 -- 03:14:32,618
But don't open up till I give the word
and everything's in position.
2406
03:14:33,162 -- 03:14:36,789
Then fire with all you've got.
I don't want to see a single gun silent.
2407
03:14:36,999 -- 03:14:39,208
Find an observation point
and check the damage.
2408
03:14:39,376 -- 03:14:41,586
We must clear those people off that ridge.
2409
03:14:43,839 -- 03:14:45,214
If we don't....
2410
03:14:45,674 -- 03:14:49,177
Anyway, you let me know when you're
nearing the end of your ammunition.
2411
03:14:49,386 -- 03:14:53,139
We must conserve enough to support
the infantry attack. Is that clear?
2412
03:14:53,307 -- 03:14:54,349
Yes, sir.
2413
03:15:31,929 -- 03:15:33,638
Gentlemen.
2414
03:15:35,474 -- 03:15:38,309
Johnston Pettigrew,
University of North Carolina.
2415
03:15:39,436 -- 03:15:40,645
Yeah, I know.
2416
03:15:41,230 -- 03:15:44,273
They still talk about your grades there
with reverence and awe.
2417
03:15:44,441 -- 03:15:47,819
Your reputation as a scholar
has preceded you, sir.
2418
03:15:47,986 -- 03:15:49,487
I hear you've written a book.
2419
03:15:49,655 -- 03:15:52,740
It was only a minor work.
If the general would care to read it....
2420
03:15:53,367 -- 03:15:56,160
-Surely.
PETTIGREW: A copy with my compliments.
2421
03:15:56,328 -- 03:15:58,663
Captain, retrieve my book
from the baggage.
2422
03:15:58,831 -- 03:16:02,834
General, my apologies, but I do not believe
I will have time to read that today.
2423
03:16:04,962 -- 03:16:06,129
Gentlemen.
2424
03:16:07,631 -- 03:16:10,508
I want you to look
at that clump of trees on that ridge.
2425
03:16:12,094 -- 03:16:15,430
That is where all units will converge.
2426
03:16:15,597 -- 03:16:20,601
You will be spread out in a long line,
perhaps a mile, about 15,000 men.
2427
03:16:21,019 -- 03:16:24,522
All units converging on that point
on the crest of that ridge.
2428
03:16:25,149 -- 03:16:26,691
Now, look here.
2429
03:16:32,114 -- 03:16:34,449
The Yankee center. A stone wall.
2430
03:16:37,035 -- 03:16:38,619
A small grove of trees.
2431
03:16:40,456 -- 03:16:44,834
General Trimble, commanding
Pender's division, will be on the left.
2432
03:16:45,586 -- 03:16:47,712
Pettigrew's brigade in support.
2433
03:16:49,298 -- 03:16:52,717
General Pickett's division
will be on the right side of the attack.
2434
03:16:52,885 -- 03:16:56,846
And now, George,
I want you to put two brigades in front...
2435
03:16:57,097 -- 03:16:59,056
...and one in back, like so.
2436
03:16:59,600 -- 03:17:00,641
Yes, sir.
2437
03:17:01,935 -- 03:17:03,227
Garnett's brigade.
2438
03:17:03,395 -- 03:17:04,896
That's Jimmy Kemper.
2439
03:17:05,272 -- 03:17:07,064
Armistead's in support.
2440
03:17:07,983 -- 03:17:09,650
Good. All right, then.
2441
03:17:09,818 -- 03:17:11,903
Garnett will dress off at Trimble's flank.
2442
03:17:12,070 -- 03:17:15,490
And he will be the hinge, so to speak,
in a series of left obliques.
2443
03:17:16,408 -- 03:17:18,534
Somewhere about
the Emmitsburg Road...
2444
03:17:18,702 -- 03:17:21,621
...you will execute your first left oblique.
2445
03:17:21,788 -- 03:17:23,414
Then direct.
2446
03:17:23,582 -- 03:17:25,124
Then left again.
2447
03:17:25,292 -- 03:17:27,293
And so on at your own discretion...
2448
03:17:27,503 -- 03:17:31,797
...in order to deceive the Yankees
and spread them out in a long line.
2449
03:17:32,132 -- 03:17:33,549
Here. Any questions?
2450
03:17:35,719 -- 03:17:37,261
All right, gentlemen.
2451
03:17:40,933 -- 03:17:42,099
Gentlemen...
2452
03:17:42,267 -- 03:17:45,770
...that is the conversion point.
That clump of trees.
2453
03:17:46,438 -- 03:17:48,439
We will use all of the artillery.
2454
03:17:49,441 -- 03:17:52,777
They will center on that point,
right there.
2455
03:17:53,779 -- 03:17:57,156
Will fire every gun they have
until the ammunition runs out.
2456
03:17:58,200 -- 03:18:01,786
When that is done,
I will give the order and you all go in.
2457
03:18:08,168 -- 03:18:10,253
Gentlemen...
2458
03:18:11,380 -- 03:18:15,800
...I do believe this attack will decide
the fate of our country.
2459
03:18:17,052 -- 03:18:23,140
All the men who have died in the past
are with you here today.
2460
03:18:33,193 -- 03:18:38,489
I want to say, sir, it is an honor to serve
under your command.
2461
03:18:47,040 -- 03:18:50,543
I want to thank you, sir, for giving me
the opportunity of serving here.
2462
03:18:50,711 -- 03:18:53,254
I have prayed, sir.
2463
03:19:28,498 -- 03:19:31,375
George, can you take that ridge?
2464
03:19:47,934 -- 03:19:49,560
Sir.
2465
03:19:54,316 -- 03:19:55,524
Harrison.
2466
03:19:56,109 -- 03:19:59,070
Would you mind giving someone an order
to give me a musket?
2467
03:19:59,237 -- 03:20:01,238
I think today I'd like to join the attack.
2468
03:20:01,406 -- 03:20:05,868
If I could even borrow a hat from a soldier
or just a jacket with some stripes on it.
2469
03:20:07,496 -- 03:20:09,080
Sir, just once.
2470
03:20:09,247 -- 03:20:13,584
Because I think, sir,
today might be the last day.
2471
03:20:17,089 -- 03:20:18,923
Haven't I earned it, sir?
2472
03:20:22,719 -- 03:20:24,261
You know what's gonna happen?
2473
03:20:29,935 -- 03:20:32,269
I'll tell you what's gonna happen.
2474
03:20:34,189 -- 03:20:36,941
Troops are now forming
behind the line of trees.
2475
03:20:38,110 -- 03:20:44,365
When they come out, they will be under
enemy long-range artillery fire.
2476
03:20:44,533 -- 03:20:48,285
Solid shot. Percussion.
Every gun they have.
2477
03:20:49,913 -- 03:20:53,332
Troops will come out under fire
with more than a mile to walk.
2478
03:20:53,500 -- 03:20:55,459
And still, within the open field...
2479
03:20:55,627 -- 03:20:58,337
...they'll be in the range
of aimed muskets.
2480
03:21:11,977 -- 03:21:15,396
They'll be slowed down
by that fence out there.
2481
03:21:15,564 -- 03:21:20,317
And the formation,
what's left of it, will begin to come apart.
2482
03:21:21,319 -- 03:21:25,489
When they cross that road,
they'll be under short-range artillery.
2483
03:21:25,657 -- 03:21:27,158
Canister fire.
2484
03:21:27,534 -- 03:21:31,036
Thousands of little bits of shrapnel
wiping the holes in the lines.
2485
03:21:33,415 -- 03:21:36,000
If they get to that wall
without breaking up...
2486
03:21:37,169 -- 03:21:38,836
...there won't be many left.
2487
03:21:42,090 -- 03:21:43,924
A mathematical equation.
2488
03:21:46,553 -- 03:21:50,765
But maybe, just maybe...
2489
03:21:50,932 -- 03:21:53,434
...our own artillery will break up
their defenses.
2490
03:21:54,728 -- 03:21:56,437
There's always that hope.
2491
03:22:01,568 -- 03:22:05,696
That's Hancock out there.
And he ain't gonna run.
2492
03:22:07,616 -- 03:22:09,658
So it's mathematical after all.
2493
03:22:10,952 -- 03:22:17,082
If they get to that road, or beyond it,
we'll suffer over 50 percent casualties.
2494
03:22:21,296 -- 03:22:23,339
But, Harrison...
2495
03:22:25,133 -- 03:22:28,260
...I don't believe my boys will reach
that wall.
2496
03:22:39,689 -- 03:22:41,732
Sir, with your permission.
2497
03:22:45,403 -- 03:22:47,822
I'll get myself that musket, sir.
2498
03:22:59,251 -- 03:23:02,044
That's Meade's headquarters.
2499
03:23:02,212 -- 03:23:05,256
You're to take a position in reserve.
2500
03:23:05,423 -- 03:23:08,592
You don't have to entrench,
but please don't go away.
2501
03:23:08,760 -- 03:23:11,929
LAWRENCE: Major, do you have that?
SPEAR: Yes. I ll place the men.
2502
03:23:12,097 -- 03:23:15,933
PITZER: You, sir, are to report
to General Hancock. If you will follow me.
2503
03:23:27,779 -- 03:23:30,781
General Hancock, sir.
Colonel Chamberlain, 20th Maine.
2504
03:23:30,949 -- 03:23:32,032
Chamberlain.
2505
03:23:32,200 -- 03:23:33,367
LAWRENCE:
Yes.
2506
03:23:33,535 -- 03:23:36,412
I hear from the ranks that
you may have been more involved...
2507
03:23:36,580 -- 03:23:38,497
...than anyone in staff has told me.
2508
03:23:38,665 -- 03:23:39,957
We were involved.
2509
03:23:40,125 -- 03:23:42,710
They tell me
you ordered a bayonet charge.
2510
03:23:43,044 -- 03:23:45,588
It's nothing to be ashamed of,
I might tell you.
2511
03:23:47,424 -- 03:23:48,883
I'm gonna look into it.
2512
03:23:49,092 -- 03:23:51,218
We need fighting men in this army.
2513
03:23:51,386 -- 03:23:54,263
And one damn thing is sure,
we'll need some brigade commanders.
2514
03:23:55,891 -- 03:23:57,892
Meanwhile, well done. Well done.
2515
03:23:58,059 -- 03:23:59,435
LAWRENCE:
Thank you, sir.
2516
03:23:59,603 -- 03:24:00,978
HANCOCK:
How's your outfit?
2517
03:24:01,479 -- 03:24:04,648
We need provisions.
The men need a meal. And ammunition.
2518
03:24:04,816 -- 03:24:06,108
We're out.
2519
03:24:06,276 -- 03:24:08,402
HANCOCK:
See to Colonel Chamberlain's request.
2520
03:24:08,945 -- 03:24:10,529
I want you to write a report.
2521
03:24:10,697 -- 03:24:11,780
LAWRENCE:
Yes, sir.
2522
03:24:15,493 -- 03:24:17,578
HANCOCK: They say you are
a schoolteacher.
2523
03:24:18,246 -- 03:24:20,456
LAWRENCE: That seems like
a long time ago.
2524
03:24:20,624 -- 03:24:23,167
Sometimes I m not sure
how long I ve been in this war.
2525
03:24:23,335 -- 03:24:25,628
Three years or three lifetimes.
2526
03:24:26,046 -- 03:24:27,838
-What do you teach?
-Rhetoric...
2527
03:24:28,089 -- 03:24:31,842
...and Natural and Revealed Religion.
At Bowdoin College, sir.
2528
03:24:33,470 -- 03:24:35,262
Now you tell me, professor.
2529
03:24:37,265 -- 03:24:39,934
Can you recall a story from antiquity
where two men...
2530
03:24:40,101 -- 03:24:42,186
...who are best of friends,
almost brothers...
2531
03:24:42,354 -- 03:24:45,814
...where these men find themselves,
by a trick of fate...
2532
03:24:45,982 -- 03:24:48,400
...on opposing sides in a great war?
2533
03:24:48,860 -- 03:24:50,861
Then, on a given day...
2534
03:24:51,029 -- 03:24:54,490
...find themselves facing one another
on the very same battlefield?
2535
03:24:56,868 -- 03:25:02,831
If the Greeks did not tell of such a story,
surely the Romans did.
2536
03:25:03,416 -- 03:25:06,043
But, sir, I think it must be found
in the Bible.
2537
03:25:06,503 -- 03:25:08,212
There isn't an officer on either side...
2538
03:25:08,380 -- 03:25:11,840
...who hasn't known someone wearing
the other uniform. I know that.
2539
03:25:12,550 -- 03:25:14,301
But this morning...
2540
03:25:15,178 -- 03:25:17,721
...I looked through my glass
and saw the colors...
2541
03:25:17,889 -- 03:25:21,517
...of the 9th and 14th Virginia regiments
on those ridges before us...
2542
03:25:21,685 -- 03:25:23,811
...directly facing us, right over there.
2543
03:25:24,312 -- 03:25:26,772
It was as if I could hear his voice...
2544
03:25:27,649 -- 03:25:29,441
...see his old crumpled hat.
2545
03:25:31,111 -- 03:25:35,239
Armistead commands one of Pickett's
brigades and he's out there for sure.
2546
03:25:37,367 -- 03:25:39,618
I somehow thought this day
would never come.
2547
03:25:40,120 -- 03:25:42,371
I thought the war would be over
in a month.
2548
03:25:42,539 -- 03:25:44,623
It's three years and how many more?
2549
03:25:44,791 -- 03:25:47,751
Who could've dreamed
it could go on for so long?
2550
03:25:50,839 -- 03:25:52,965
What would you do, Chamberlain?
2551
03:25:54,843 -- 03:25:57,302
What do the books tell you to do?
2552
03:26:00,515 -- 03:26:02,141
Now you go and rest up.
2553
03:26:02,308 -- 03:26:04,518
Nothing's gonna happen today anyway.
2554
03:26:04,769 -- 03:26:09,314
Everybody's too tired, too hot,
too worn out. Both sides.
2555
03:26:09,482 -- 03:26:12,943
Yes, sir.
We're placed in reserve, just over there.
2556
03:26:13,111 -- 03:26:15,154
Thank you for your sentiments, sir.
2557
03:26:41,306 -- 03:26:43,057
[GRUNTING]
2558
03:26:44,851 -- 03:26:45,934
Lawrence.
2559
03:26:47,562 -- 03:26:50,022
I just got back from the hospital.
2560
03:26:51,232 -- 03:26:52,483
God-awful mess.
2561
03:26:54,944 -- 03:26:57,112
They got no room.
2562
03:26:57,280 -- 03:27:00,074
They got no shade.
They got men lying everywhere.
2563
03:27:01,284 -- 03:27:04,411
They're cutting off arms and legs
in front of everybody.
2564
03:27:07,248 -- 03:27:09,708
They ought to not do that in public.
2565
03:27:11,878 -- 03:27:14,546
Men ought to have some privacy
at a time like that.
2566
03:27:17,217 -- 03:27:18,467
You see Kilrain?
2567
03:27:22,806 -- 03:27:24,181
How is he?
2568
03:27:28,186 -- 03:27:29,853
Lawrence...
2569
03:27:31,564 -- 03:27:32,731
...he died.
2570
03:27:39,447 -- 03:27:41,365
He died this morning before I got there.
2571
03:27:44,285 -- 03:27:47,955
A couple of fellows were with him.
2572
03:27:49,833 -- 03:27:51,917
He said to tell you goodbye.
2573
03:27:53,962 -- 03:27:55,546
And that he was sorry.
2574
03:27:59,551 -- 03:28:01,176
Yeah.
2575
03:28:04,472 -- 03:28:05,973
[SIGHS]
2576
03:28:07,725 -- 03:28:09,726
I tell you, Lawrence.
2577
03:28:11,855 -- 03:28:13,689
I sure was fond of that man.
2578
03:28:16,651 -- 03:28:18,360
Yeah.
2579
03:28:27,954 -- 03:28:29,746
[CANNON FIRING]
2580
03:28:30,957 -- 03:28:32,499
[SOLDIERS YELLING]
2581
03:32:28,569 -- 03:32:31,446
SOLDIER: General, please get down.
We cannot spare you.
2582
03:32:31,781 -- 03:32:34,658
There are times when
a corps commander's life does not count.
2583
03:33:48,065 -- 03:33:49,566
[HORSE NEIGHS]
2584
03:33:51,652 -- 03:33:53,069
GARNETT:
How are you, Lo?
2585
03:33:55,865 -- 03:33:57,407
I'm fine, Dick.
2586
03:34:00,870 -- 03:34:02,370
Well, that's good.
2587
03:34:04,332 -- 03:34:05,749
How's the leg?
2588
03:34:05,917 -- 03:34:07,334
It's all right.
2589
03:34:08,586 -- 03:34:10,879
Can't walk. I ll have to ride.
2590
03:34:11,047 -- 03:34:15,425
You can't do that.
You'll be the perfect target.
2591
03:34:17,345 -- 03:34:21,264
We're going up there today
and we're gonna break that line.
2592
03:34:21,432 -- 03:34:26,436
When the Yankees run away, there'll be
an open road all the way to Washington.
2593
03:34:29,190 -- 03:34:31,691
And maybe we'll win it today.
2594
03:34:32,276 -- 03:34:35,278
And today will be the last day.
2595
03:34:36,572 -- 03:34:37,614
Maybe today.
2596
03:34:42,870 -- 03:34:44,579
I've got to ride up there.
2597
03:34:48,668 -- 03:34:50,252
Well, Lo...
2598
03:34:51,587 -- 03:34:52,963
...I'll see you at the top.
2599
03:35:06,060 -- 03:35:07,811
[SOLDIERS YELLING]
2600
03:35:14,735 -- 03:35:18,071
My God, Lo. Ain't it marvelous?
2601
03:35:18,239 -- 03:35:20,323
I thought we missed it all.
2602
03:35:21,576 -- 03:35:23,493
-Any questions?
-No.
2603
03:35:23,661 -- 03:35:24,703
PICKETT:
All right, then.
2604
03:35:24,870 -- 03:35:27,539
When the firing ceases,
we step out real quick.
2605
03:35:27,707 -- 03:35:31,126
No halting, no stopping to fire.
We want to get there quick as we can.
2606
03:35:31,544 -- 03:35:32,627
What about Garnett?
2607
03:35:32,795 -- 03:35:35,547
-What about him?
ARMISTEAD: He can't hardly walk.
2608
03:35:35,798 -- 03:35:36,840
Damnation.
2609
03:35:37,925 -- 03:35:41,177
George, order him
not to make the charge.
2610
03:35:41,345 -- 03:35:47,058
General Armistead, how can I do that?
Hyah!
2611
03:35:51,814 -- 03:35:53,023
General Armistead, sir.
2612
03:35:54,859 -- 03:35:56,401
My compliments.
2613
03:36:03,159 -- 03:36:06,453
I hope Her Majesty's emissary
passed a comfortable night.
2614
03:36:06,746 -- 03:36:08,496
Slept like the dead, sir.
2615
03:36:08,664 -- 03:36:12,083
A baby. Slept like a newborn baby, sir.
2616
03:36:16,756 -- 03:36:18,840
Lie still, men. Keep down.
2617
03:36:20,885 -- 03:36:22,969
There's no safe place here.
2618
03:36:25,973 -- 03:36:27,974
One spot's as good as the neEt.
2619
03:36:32,104 -- 03:36:36,066
MAN 1 : Fire!
MAN 2: Fire!
2620
03:36:36,317 -- 03:36:38,485
We've been firing for a good while, sir.
2621
03:36:38,653 -- 03:36:43,156
It's apparent neither the Federals nor we
are going to gain a clear advantage.
2622
03:36:43,366 -- 03:36:45,992
If we continue to expend our ammunition
at this rate...
2623
03:36:46,160 -- 03:36:48,745
...we may endanger our ability
to support the advance.
2624
03:36:48,913 -- 03:36:51,456
Did you not have enough ordinance
when this was begun?
2625
03:36:51,624 -- 03:36:55,960
The Federal fire compelled us to remove
the artillery train farther to the rear.
2626
03:36:56,837 -- 03:36:59,756
It's taking us longer to refill the caissons.
2627
03:36:59,924 -- 03:37:02,384
Sir, we must slow down our fire now...
2628
03:37:02,551 -- 03:37:05,762
...or we will have to cut back on the guns
sent in to support the infantry.
2629
03:37:06,555 -- 03:37:07,681
Damn!
2630
03:37:08,057 -- 03:37:12,602
I'll have to order General Pickett to halt
his attack until the guns get replenished.
2631
03:37:12,770 -- 03:37:16,356
The trains have a little ammunition.
It'll take an hour to redistribute it.
2632
03:37:16,524 -- 03:37:18,817
In the meanwhile,
the enemy would improve the top.
2633
03:37:18,984 -- 03:37:20,110
The longer we delay...
2634
03:37:20,277 -- 03:37:23,446
...the more time the Federals have
to strengthen their own lines.
2635
03:37:23,614 -- 03:37:26,449
And even if we recover more supplies
from the ordinance train...
2636
03:37:26,617 -- 03:37:29,285
...how much more damage can we inflict
on them than they on us?
2637
03:37:30,204 -- 03:37:33,415
They're bringing in fresh batteries
as quickly as we drive them off.
2638
03:37:33,582 -- 03:37:35,792
Just get some more ammunition
and keep it hot.
2639
03:37:35,960 -- 03:37:38,670
I cannot send Pickett's division
or the others...
2640
03:37:38,838 -- 03:37:42,215
...until we clear some of those guns
off that ridge.
2641
03:38:18,627 -- 03:38:23,047
I'm told you are descended
from an illustrious military family.
2642
03:38:23,215 -- 03:38:25,300
Who told you that? Kemper?
2643
03:38:25,718 -- 03:38:28,803
He tells me it was your uncle
who defended Fort McHenry...
2644
03:38:28,971 -- 03:38:31,306
...during the War of 1812.
2645
03:38:31,474 -- 03:38:36,102
And that he was therefore the guardian
of the original Star-S@angled anner.
2646
03:38:36,270 -- 03:38:39,856
I must say,
I do appreciate the irony of it all.
2647
03:38:40,024 -- 03:38:41,566
Colonel Fremantle.
2648
03:38:42,234 -- 03:38:47,197
It does not begin or end with my uncle
or myself.
2649
03:38:48,115 -- 03:38:50,658
We're all sons of Virginia here.
2650
03:38:54,121 -- 03:38:56,039
That major out there
commanding the cannon...
2651
03:38:56,207 -- 03:38:57,791
...that's James Dearing.
2652
03:38:58,209 -- 03:39:02,045
First in his class at West Point,
before Virginia seceded.
2653
03:39:02,213 -- 03:39:04,714
And the boy over there
with the color guard.
2654
03:39:05,424 -- 03:39:08,051
That's Private Robert Tyler Jones.
2655
03:39:08,219 -- 03:39:12,388
His grandfather was
president of the United States.
2656
03:39:13,557 -- 03:39:18,311
The colonel behind me,
that's Colonel William Aylett.
2657
03:39:18,479 -- 03:39:20,396
Now, his great grandfather...
2658
03:39:20,564 -- 03:39:23,441
...was the Virginian Patrick Henry.
2659
03:39:26,737 -- 03:39:30,573
It was Patrick Henry
who said to your King George III:
2660
03:39:31,325 -- 03:39:34,077
"Give me liberty or give me death."
2661
03:39:38,290 -- 03:39:40,500
There are boys here from...
2662
03:39:40,668 -- 03:39:41,960
...Norfolk...
2663
03:39:43,003 -- 03:39:44,504
...Portsmouth...
2664
03:39:45,172 -- 03:39:48,007
...small hamlets along the James River.
2665
03:39:48,968 -- 03:39:51,636
From Charlottesville and Fredericksburg.
2666
03:39:51,846 -- 03:39:53,847
The Shenandoah Valley.
2667
03:39:56,350 -- 03:39:59,018
Mostly they're all veteran soldiers now.
2668
03:39:59,186 -- 03:40:01,896
The cowards and shirkers are long gone.
2669
03:40:03,858 -- 03:40:08,111
Every man here knows his duty.
2670
03:40:08,821 -- 03:40:14,284
They would make this charge
even without an officer to lead them.
2671
03:40:17,454 -- 03:40:20,373
They know the gravity of the situation.
2672
03:40:20,541 -- 03:40:23,501
And the mettle of their foe.
2673
03:40:24,670 -- 03:40:28,631
They know that this day's work...
2674
03:40:29,884 -- 03:40:32,927
...will be desperate and deadly.
2675
03:40:33,637 -- 03:40:37,223
They know that for many of them...
2676
03:40:37,391 -- 03:40:40,268
...this will be their last charge.
2677
03:40:41,604 -- 03:40:46,566
But not one of them needs to be told
what is expected of him.
2678
03:40:46,734 -- 03:40:49,652
They are all willing to make
the supreme sacrifice...
2679
03:40:51,238 -- 03:40:56,117
...to achieve victory here.
2680
03:40:57,369 -- 03:41:02,165
The crowning victory
and the end of this war.
2681
03:41:04,460 -- 03:41:06,544
We are all here.
2682
03:41:08,756 -- 03:41:11,674
You may tell them
when you return to your country...
2683
03:41:12,384 -- 03:41:17,347
...that all Virginia was here on this day.
2684
03:41:46,377 -- 03:41:48,127
A message from Alexander.
2685
03:41:48,337 -- 03:41:52,131
"Hurry up, for God's sake,
or the artillery can't help you."
2686
03:41:54,009 -- 03:41:55,635
Your order, sir?
2687
03:41:58,973 -- 03:42:04,352
General Longstreet,
should I commence the attack?
2688
03:42:08,857 -- 03:42:11,150
I shall lead my division forward, sir.
2689
03:42:43,017 -- 03:42:46,936
For the glory of Virginia,
form your brigade.
2690
03:42:51,442 -- 03:42:52,859
Gentlemen...
2691
03:42:54,111 -- 03:42:55,695
...form your battalions.
2692
03:42:58,490 -- 03:43:00,908
OFFICER:
Battalion, forward!
2693
03:43:37,446 -- 03:43:39,614
[MEN YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
2694
03:45:06,410 -- 03:45:11,747
Father, into your hands,
I commend my spirit.
2695
03:45:24,511 -- 03:45:26,596
[HORSE NEIGHS]
2696
03:45:34,354 -- 03:45:39,609
Up, men! Up! And to your posts!
2697
03:45:40,110 -- 03:45:42,445
And let no man forget today...
2698
03:45:43,155 -- 03:45:46,991
...that you are from old Virginia.
2699
03:45:48,702 -- 03:45:54,957
ALL:
Virginia! Virginia! Virginia!
2700
03:45:59,379 -- 03:46:03,549
Virginians!
2701
03:46:05,719 -- 03:46:09,639
For your lands! For your homes!
2702
03:46:11,516 -- 03:46:13,059
For your sweethearts!
2703
03:46:14,603 -- 03:46:16,145
For your wives!
2704
03:46:18,607 -- 03:46:21,901
For Virginia!
2705
03:46:23,237 -- 03:46:24,987
Forward!
2706
03:46:25,155 -- 03:46:27,740
ALL:
Forward!
2707
03:46:33,163 -- 03:46:34,372
March!
2708
03:46:34,623 -- 03:46:37,083
[DRUMS BEATING]
2709
03:47:23,755 -- 03:47:26,549
[CHEERING]
2710
03:52:20,260 -- 03:52:23,679
[DRUMS BEATING]
2711
03:52:27,934 -- 03:52:30,227
OFFICER: Come on, men!
And keep your heads down!
2712
03:52:31,146 -- 03:52:33,689
OFFICER: Reload!
SOLDIER: Reloading!
2713
03:55:23,651 -- 03:55:27,780
PICKETT: Clear the lines!
To the front, boys! One, two!
2714
03:55:28,573 -- 03:55:31,200
OFFICER:
We are with you, general!
2715
03:55:31,951 -- 03:55:33,410
PICKETT:
Come on, boys!
2716
03:55:33,578 -- 03:55:36,997
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
2717
03:55:37,832 -- 03:55:39,291
Come on, boys!
2718
03:55:39,626 -- 03:55:41,043
The glasses!
2719
03:56:31,761 -- 03:56:34,638
CONFEDERATE OFFICER:
Let's go! Over the fence!
2720
03:56:43,147 -- 03:56:44,648
Fill that gap!
2721
03:56:48,528 -- 03:56:50,070
Over the fence!
2722
03:56:52,240 -- 03:56:54,491
MAN 1 :
Keep your heads down!
2723
03:56:55,952 -- 03:56:57,452
MAN 2:
Fire!
2724
03:57:16,598 -- 03:57:18,307
Over the fence, lads!
2725
03:57:18,516 -- 03:57:22,895
But save your strength for the attack
and get over the fence, quickly!
2726
03:57:29,777 -- 03:57:32,154
MAN:
Fire!
2727
03:57:42,165 -- 03:57:43,624
Tell him.
2728
03:57:43,791 -- 03:57:46,501
General, Trimble sends his compliments
and says...
2729
03:57:46,669 -- 03:57:49,338
...that if the troops he had the honor
to command this day...
2730
03:57:49,505 -- 03:57:54,343
...cannot take that position,
all hell can't take it.
2731
03:58:00,183 -- 03:58:04,686
UNION OFFICER: Give them double
canisters! That's it! Double canisters!
2732
03:58:07,523 -- 03:58:10,025
UNION OFFICER:
Get up, men! Fire!
2733
03:58:23,581 -- 03:58:25,791
GARNETT:
Give them the cold steel!
2734
03:58:25,959 -- 03:58:27,000
Quick step!
2735
03:58:36,094 -- 03:58:38,053
MAN:
Keep up your fire!
2736
03:58:44,102 -- 03:58:46,019
[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
2737
03:59:10,753 -- 03:59:13,255
Take that to General Longstreet
quick as you can.
2738
03:59:13,423 -- 03:59:14,923
With my compliments.
2739
03:59:16,175 -- 03:59:17,926
Damnation! Come on!
2740
03:59:29,480 -- 03:59:31,023
[CANNONS FIRING]
2741
03:59:31,190 -- 03:59:32,441
Do it!
2742
03:59:33,192 -- 03:59:34,443
UNION OFFICER:
Fire away, men!
2743
03:59:34,610 -- 03:59:36,611
GARNETT:
Close it up!
2744
03:59:37,196 -- 03:59:40,157
OFFICER: Steady!
Keep that line there!
2745
03:59:41,617 -- 03:59:43,702
HANCOCK:
Keep up your fire! Colonel!
2746
03:59:47,331 -- 03:59:49,374
Bring your men forward.
We'll flank these bastards.
2747
03:59:49,542 -- 03:59:50,876
-Bring the men forward.
-Yes, sir.
2748
03:59:51,044 -- 03:59:53,795
By God, we'll flank them.
2749
03:59:57,091 -- 03:59:58,467
Damn it all!
2750
04:00:01,471 -- 04:00:03,680
I will not be moved...
2751
04:00:03,848 -- 04:00:05,599
...until this engagement is decided.
2752
04:00:07,018 -- 04:00:10,228
Get me a tourniquet
before I bleed to death.
2753
04:00:15,818 -- 04:00:17,319
GARNETT:
Forward, boys!
2754
04:00:40,843 -- 04:00:42,010
What are you doing?
2755
04:00:42,178 -- 04:00:44,846
You've got to come up and help us.
2756
04:00:45,348 -- 04:00:47,057
In God's name, they're flanking us.
2757
04:00:47,225 -- 04:00:49,643
Coming down on the right
and firing right into us.
2758
04:00:50,686 -- 04:00:53,021
Head for the trees.
Head right for the center.
2759
04:00:53,189 -- 04:00:56,108
I'll call for double-quick. Nobody waits.
2760
04:00:56,275 -- 04:00:58,735
-Everybody goes.
-All right.
2761
04:01:00,446 -- 04:01:03,907
ARMISTEAD:
Boys! At the double-quick!
2762
04:01:07,203 -- 04:01:08,787
March!
2763
04:01:10,540 -- 04:01:12,207
CONFEDERATE SOLDIER: Come on!
Together!
2764
04:01:35,898 -- 04:01:39,276
Come on, boys! They're breaking!
2765
04:01:47,201 -- 04:01:50,245
Forward to the wall!
2766
04:02:09,932 -- 04:02:11,766
Get to them on the right, boys!
2767
04:02:44,133 -- 04:02:47,052
Move out, boys! Move out!
2768
04:02:50,973 -- 04:02:52,515
Come on, boy. Come on!
2769
04:02:52,683 -- 04:02:55,727
What will you think of yourself tomorrow?
2770
04:02:55,895 -- 04:03:00,273
Virginians! Virginians!
2771
04:03:01,150 -- 04:03:05,904
We're staying. Who will come with me?
2772
04:03:06,072 -- 04:03:07,864
Let's go, boys!
2773
04:03:19,418 -- 04:03:21,544
That's the style, Lo.
2774
04:03:21,712 -- 04:03:23,338
That's the style!
2775
04:04:44,128 -- 04:04:45,879
The day is ours, men!
2776
04:04:46,047 -- 04:04:49,257
Turn the cannons on them!
Turn the cannons!
2777
04:06:23,352 -- 04:06:24,853
PICKETT:
Break them, Lo!
2778
04:06:34,989 -- 04:06:38,074
What's happening?
I can't see what's happening to my boys!
2779
04:06:39,743 -- 04:06:41,870
What's happening to my boys?
2780
04:06:42,037 -- 04:06:43,746
Major, give me your glasses.
2781
04:06:49,044 -- 04:06:52,130
UNION SOLDIER: There's a rebel.
Take him prisoner.
2782
04:08:26,559 -- 04:08:28,726
Sir, sir.
2783
04:08:32,147 -- 04:08:35,066
Will you help me up, please?
2784
04:08:35,234 -- 04:08:38,319
Sir, could you tell me what your name is?
Who you are?
2785
04:08:40,197 -- 04:08:42,991
I would like to speak to General Hancock.
2786
04:08:43,158 -- 04:08:49,581
Do you know where General Hancock
may be found?
2787
04:08:50,165 -- 04:08:52,875
TOM:
I'm sorry, sir. The general is down.
2788
04:08:53,043 -- 04:08:55,336
-He's been hit.
-No!
2789
04:08:56,547 -- 04:08:59,048
Not both of us.
2790
04:08:59,717 -- 04:09:02,635
Not all of us.
2791
04:09:03,053 -- 04:09:04,637
Please, God.
2792
04:09:04,805 -- 04:09:09,225
TOM: Sir, we're having a surgeon come
as quickly as we can.
2793
04:09:11,270 -- 04:09:13,229
Can you hear me, son?
2794
04:09:13,397 -- 04:09:16,190
Yes, sir. I can hear you.
2795
04:09:17,067 -- 04:09:20,862
Will you tell General Hancock...
2796
04:09:21,739 -- 04:09:26,868
...that General Armistead
sends his regrets?
2797
04:09:28,704 -- 04:09:30,580
Will you tell him...
2798
04:09:31,749 -- 04:09:36,461
...how very sorry I am?
2799
04:09:38,589 -- 04:09:43,593
TOM:
I will tell him, sir. I will tell him.
2800
04:09:44,219 -- 04:09:46,304
[PANTING]
2801
04:09:57,941 -- 04:09:59,609
General Webb, sir.
2802
04:10:08,410 -- 04:10:11,162
[CHANTING]
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
2803
04:10:44,488 -- 04:10:46,948
Let go of the horse, major.
2804
04:10:47,116 -- 04:10:49,450
Major Sorrel, I said let go of the horse.
2805
04:10:49,618 -- 04:10:51,703
Now you form up here,
put fire down on them.
2806
04:10:51,870 -- 04:10:54,288
They're coming
and I'm going to meet them.
2807
04:10:56,250 -- 04:10:59,001
SORREL:
Captain Goree. Come on!
2808
04:11:19,481 -- 04:11:22,483
GOREE: General, what are your orders?
What do you want me to do?
2809
04:11:22,651 -- 04:11:24,902
Where do you want me to go?
2810
04:11:33,704 -- 04:11:36,080
You've got to pull back, general.
Pull back, sir.
2811
04:11:36,248 -- 04:11:38,499
Place the guns. Bring up the guns!
2812
04:11:38,667 -- 04:11:40,710
[CANNON FIRING]
2813
04:11:43,839 -- 04:11:45,757
God!
2814
04:11:51,346 -- 04:11:52,847
How are you, T.J.?
2815
04:11:53,015 -- 04:11:54,891
I'm tolerable, sir.
2816
04:11:58,395 -- 04:11:59,729
They ain't coming.
2817
04:11:59,897 -- 04:12:02,023
Too bad.
2818
04:12:04,193 -- 04:12:05,860
Yes, sir.
2819
04:12:07,112 -- 04:12:08,488
GOREE:
General.
2820
04:12:09,364 -- 04:12:11,741
I'll tell you plain.
2821
04:12:12,242 -- 04:12:14,160
There are times when you worry me.
2822
04:12:16,455 -- 04:12:18,581
No good trying
to get yourself killed.
2823
04:12:19,082 -- 04:12:21,375
The Lord will come for you
in his own good time.
2824
04:12:24,963 -- 04:12:26,964
What are the orders, sir?
2825
04:12:31,386 -- 04:12:35,890
LONGSTREET: Prepare for defense,
but the Yankees ain't coming.
2826
04:12:38,268 -- 04:12:40,353
Come on, boys.
2827
04:12:44,274 -- 04:12:45,733
SORREL:
Sir...
2828
04:12:45,901 -- 04:12:48,736
...I have the figures
from Pickett's command.
2829
04:12:49,947 -- 04:12:52,156
General Armistead is missing.
2830
04:12:52,324 -- 04:12:56,452
General Garnett,
missing and figured to be dead, sir.
2831
04:12:56,620 -- 04:13:00,122
General Kemper is down,
seriously wounded.
2832
04:13:00,290 -- 04:13:05,753
Sir, of the 13 colonels in Pickett's
division, seven are dead and six are wounded.
2833
04:13:05,921 -- 04:13:09,382
No more. You tell me the rest later.
2834
04:13:20,936 -- 04:13:22,937
LEE: Major?
TAYLOR: Yes, sir.
2835
04:13:23,105 -- 04:13:26,148
Is that General Kemper
there bearing toward us?
2836
04:13:26,316 -- 04:13:28,442
TAYLOR:
I believe it to be, sir.
2837
04:13:32,656 -- 04:13:34,574
LEE:
General Kemper.
2838
04:13:35,659 -- 04:13:37,702
I do hope
you are not seriously injured.
2839
04:13:41,665 -- 04:13:44,792
They tell me that it's mortal, general.
2840
04:13:44,960 -- 04:13:47,962
I do pray God that it is not the case.
2841
04:13:48,130 -- 04:13:49,672
Is there anything I can do?
2842
04:13:50,173 -- 04:13:54,510
There's nothing more you can do for me.
2843
04:13:55,846 -- 04:14:02,310
But, General Lee, will you see to it
that full justice is done for my men...
2844
04:14:04,313 -- 04:14:06,647
...who made this charge today?
2845
04:14:07,691 -- 04:14:08,983
I will do so, sir.
2846
04:14:09,151 -- 04:14:17,366
Thank you, general.
2847
04:14:20,203 -- 04:14:21,704
It's my fault.
2848
04:14:23,749 -- 04:14:25,458
[LOUDER]
It's my fault.
2849
04:14:25,626 -- 04:14:27,877
[SOLDIERS PROTESTING]
2850
04:14:28,045 -- 04:14:30,588
I thought we were invincible.
2851
04:14:31,465 -- 04:14:33,007
Friends.
2852
04:14:33,550 -- 04:14:35,676
It is all my fault.
2853
04:14:36,595 -- 04:14:38,137
Hear me.
2854
04:14:38,305 -- 04:14:40,181
Hear me, I pray you.
2855
04:14:40,599 -- 04:14:42,266
It is entirely my fault.
2856
04:14:42,434 -- 04:14:43,851
No.
2857
04:14:44,019 -- 04:14:45,186
LEE:
Hear me.
2858
04:14:45,354 -- 04:14:47,730
Hear me. Please, friends.
2859
04:14:47,898 -- 04:14:50,024
We must rest now.
2860
04:14:50,192 -- 04:14:52,485
We must retire
and fight again another day.
2861
04:14:52,653 -- 04:14:54,862
And there will be another day.
2862
04:14:55,197 -- 04:14:57,782
Meanwhile, friends,
we must show good order.
2863
04:14:57,950 -- 04:15:00,534
Never let them see you run.
Do you hear me?
2864
04:15:00,702 -- 04:15:02,578
Never let them see you run.
2865
04:15:02,746 -- 04:15:05,456
Let us hit them again.
Let us reform and hit them again.
2866
04:15:05,624 -- 04:15:06,749
I know we can do it.
2867
04:15:06,917 -- 04:15:08,584
[SOLDIERS YELLING
AND CHEERING]
2868
04:15:09,878 -- 04:15:12,421
LEE:
God bless you, gentlemen.
2869
04:15:16,301 -- 04:15:19,303
LEE: They're forming over there, major.
I do fear they may attack.
2870
04:15:19,471 -- 04:15:21,222
SORREL:
Yes, sir.
2871
04:15:23,225 -- 04:15:25,142
LEE:
General Pickett.
2872
04:15:25,310 -- 04:15:30,564
You may reform to the rear of this ridge
and set up a defensive position.
2873
04:15:35,529 -- 04:15:39,865
General Pickett, sir.
You must look to your division.
2874
04:15:46,957 -- 04:15:49,041
General Lee...
2875
04:15:51,044 -- 04:15:52,795
...I have no division.
2876
04:17:01,865 -- 04:17:04,033
LONGSTREET:
General....
2877
04:17:15,921 -- 04:17:17,838
LEE:
We will withdraw...
2878
04:17:19,007 -- 04:17:23,552
...as soon as we have secured
all those wounded...
2879
04:17:25,055 -- 04:17:28,057
...who are well enough to be moved.
2880
04:17:31,686 -- 04:17:34,188
If we can reach the Potomac...
2881
04:17:35,565 -- 04:17:38,400
...and cross over into Virginia...
2882
04:17:39,569 -- 04:17:43,072
...there will be
no more immediate danger.
2883
04:17:45,158 -- 04:17:46,700
But I'll need your help, Pete.
2884
04:17:54,584 -- 04:17:57,253
I'm so very tired.
2885
04:17:59,798 -- 04:18:00,965
What can I do, sir?
2886
04:18:07,722 -- 04:18:09,348
General?
2887
04:18:19,442 -- 04:18:22,278
We must look to our own deportment.
2888
04:18:26,449 -- 04:18:30,911
The spirit of the army is still very good.
Very good indeed.
2889
04:18:34,499 -- 04:18:37,459
We will do better another time.
2890
04:18:42,090 -- 04:18:46,594
They do not die for us. Not for us.
2891
04:18:48,638 -- 04:18:51,265
That at least is a blessing.
2892
04:18:53,810 -- 04:18:56,187
If this war goes on....
2893
04:18:56,938 -- 04:18:58,564
And it will.
2894
04:18:58,732 -- 04:19:00,107
It will.
2895
04:19:01,818 -- 04:19:04,820
What else can we do but go on,
you and I?
2896
04:19:05,655 -- 04:19:10,242
It's always the same question forever.
2897
04:19:10,952 -- 04:19:13,370
What else can we do?
2898
04:19:14,164 -- 04:19:15,998
If they fight...
2899
04:19:17,125 -- 04:19:19,460
...we must fight with them.
2900
04:19:20,962 -- 04:19:23,964
And does it matter, after all, who wins?
2901
04:19:25,842 -- 04:19:28,802
Was that ever really the question?
2902
04:19:31,640 -- 04:19:35,559
Will almighty God
ask that question in the end?
2903
04:31:09,003 -- 04:31:11,004
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