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My name is William Pittenger.
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I never intended to write this book,
but after our raid into Georgia was over,
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something happened
to make me change my mind.
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Along with a group of men
who had shared so much with me,
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I was summoned to
the War Department in Washington.
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We expected nothing more
than routine questioning,
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but were surprised to be invited
into Secretary Stanton's office,
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and dumbfounded as we took in
the meaning of his words.
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It is a tribute to your valor
that the boldest exploit of this war
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bringing consternation upon the
Confederacy and glory to our Union arms,
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was led by a civilian, and carried out
by private soldiers.
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Volunteers, to a man.
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You've won for us a new respect,
and we are grateful.
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Congress has, by recent law,
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prepared a medal to be awarded
for conspicuous bravery:
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"The Congressional Medal of Honor."
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You gentlemen are to have
the first ever given.
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Corporal William Pittenger.
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Congratulations, Mr. Pittenger.
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[ Pittenger] I tried to thank him
but I felt too unworthy,
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remembering our missing comrades
and our brave leader Andrews
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who had gained us this honor.
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[Pittenger] James J. Andrews was a man
of mystery, as befitted his vocation.
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Though in reality a Union spy,
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he was trusted throughout the South
as a blockade runner.
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It was typical that even now
as he neared our lines,
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he was riding a horse he had borrowed
from the Confederates.
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On that eventful day in 1862,
I was in charge of a picket detail,
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guarding the approach to our
headquarters camp, south of Nashville.
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Pittenger, why don't you hire a substitute,
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so the war won't interfere
with your reading?
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This concerns the war.
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Bringing out a new medal.
"The Congressional Medal of Honor."
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This ain't for you and me.
That's for generals.
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Not our generals.
They won't even let us fight.
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Mitchell would,
if they'd give him a chance.
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Maybe.
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All I know is I joined this army
to kill Johnny Rebs,
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and so far, I ain't even seen one.
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You've been lucky.
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It's all right, Bill.
I know him.
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Glad to see you, Mr. Andrews.
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What's your regiment doing
this far south of Nashville?
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General Buell moved out with most of
the army to reinforce Grant.
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There's a big fight shaping up
around Corinth.
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I probably don't have to tell you.
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I didn't know Buell was gone.
Who's in command here now?
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General Mitchell. He's madder than
a wet hen to be left behind.
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So were we.
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- Why are you left behind?
- To guard Nashville.
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It's nice to talk with you again, Corporal.
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Mr. Andrews...
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if you ever want help
on a Secret Service mission,
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don't forget the name Pittenger.
William Pittenger.
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In all of East Tennessee,
there's no concentration
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of Confederate forces worth the mention.
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The Southern army at Knoxville
is barely able to defend the city
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- from Union General Morgan.
- What about Chattanooga?
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Buell was certain a great army
was gathering there.
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General Mitchell, there are only
2,000 raw recruits in Chattanooga,
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and another 2,000 that aren't even armed!
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Here we wait with 10,000 choice troops
under strict orders to guard Nashville.
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If only I'd been given some latitude,
I'd march right into Chattanooga.
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- Wouldn't that be defending Nashville?
- Yes, by George!
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As long as I keep the enemy in front
of me, Nashville will be fully protected.
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But I don't want Chattanooga
unless I can hold it.
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It might be two weeks
before Buell could reinforce me.
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Have you any idea how many men
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the Confederates could bring
out of Atlanta against me?
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15,000 at least.
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That many?
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Suppose we have a look, Andrews,
and see how matters stand.
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Here's Lee, who has his hands full
in Virginia.
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And here's Beauregard, who's bringing up
everything he's got to fight Grant at Shiloh.
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And here's their east-west railroad,
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all the way from Alexandria to Memphis,
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with Chattanooga right
in the strategic center.
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Here we are. So, if I moved
down here to Huntsville,
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captured the locomotives and flat cars,
and rode into Chattanooga,
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all I'd have to fear would be
these forces out of Atlanta.
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That's true, sir, but we're right back
where we started from.
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They can move their soldiers
up the railroad from Atlanta
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and drive you out of Chattanooga
in two days.
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There are 11 railroad bridges
over the Chicamagua.
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A man like you could lead a raiding party
and burn those bridges for me.
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Why not?
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I had a deal with General Buell
that when I brought this information,
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I wouldn't go South anymore.
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Soon as I complete this report,
I aim to enlist in the 21st Ohio.
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You'd leave the Secret Service
to become a foot soldier?
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Yes, sir. Maybe I won't be
any great shakes in the infantry,
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but at least it wouldn't be
hiding under a cloak.
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After just so long,
a man has to come out in the open.
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Mr. Andrews, I wouldn't detail any man
on a duty of this kind against his will.
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But consider what it might mean
to the Union.
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Cut the Confederacy in two.
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We could shorten the war by half,
maybe end it.
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[Pittenger] I'd heard from Mr. Andrews
sooner than I expected.
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That night a score of adventurous men,
most from the 21st and 33rd Ohio Infantry,
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followed me to a meeting place
on a hillside.
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[coyote howls]
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- Good evening, gentlemen.
- [all] Good evening.
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All here, Mr. Andrews.
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Which are Brown and Knight?
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Private Wilson Brown, Company F.
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Private William Knight, Company E.
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Not any longer, gentlemen.
Forget that you've ever been soldiers.
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Mr. Brown and Mr. Knight
have been informed
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by their company commanders
about our venture.
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They know what they have to do.
We can't get along without them.
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All I can tell the rest of you is that while
Mitchell moves toward Chattanooga,
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we must penetrate more than 100 miles
behind the Confederate lines in Georgia
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to destroy the railroad.
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If we fail, every one of us may be hanged
or torn in pieces by an angry mob.
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You have no experience
playing the part of spies.
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Some of you are pretty young.
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Since we're asking you to volunteer blindly,
it won't be dishonorable to back out now.
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If you had any sense, you'd return to camp
and get into uniform again.
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[coyote howls]
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Good. You're the men for me.
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Now then, you're to travel southeast
through the Cumberland Mountains,
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cross the Tennessee River,
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and be ready to catch the 5:00 train south
out of Chattanooga Thursday afternoon.
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Your destination is the Railroad Hotel
at Marietta, Georgia.
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If anyone fails to meet me there
before sun up Friday morning,
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the attempt will be made without him.
Any questions?
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I'm Bill Campbell.
What'll we tell the Johnny Rebs
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about who we are
and where we're from?
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Tell them you're Kentuckians, escaping
Yankee rule to join a Southern regiment.
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If they press you, tell them you hail
from Fleming County, Kentucky.
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I'm from Flemingsburg, and no man from
that county ever joined the Southern army.
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- What if they have us cornered?
- Don't hesitate to join their army.
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You can escape back to your own lines
some dark night on picket duty.
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I'm Bob Buff um. Would you care to tell us
how you intend to reach Marietta?
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I'll travel on the same road,
sometimes before you, sometimes behind.
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- We allowed to talk to you?
- Treat me as you would a stranger.
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As for you, Mr. Buff um, it might be wiser
if you didn't speak at all.
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I never met a Kentuckian
so plainly from Massachusetts.
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[thunder]
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Do you have your pistols?
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Keep them hidden.
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In this business, you never fight
unless you've failed, and we won't fail.
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Nothing can stop us.
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[thunder]
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Nothing.
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[Pittenger] Andrews gave us 3 days for
our journey through the Cumberlands.
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Traveling by twos and threes,
we were strung out miles apart
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in a desolate country.
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We'd been supplied with Confederate
money, but food and lodging were scarce,
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and transportation out of the question.
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My companion was the Giant,
Bill Campbell.
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As I came to know him, I felt a growing
concern over his quick, violent temper.
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One such powder keg could blow
our whole expedition sky-high.
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We reached the Tennessee River on time,
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only to find it impassable.
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Pardon me, ma'am. Do you know
the whereabouts of the ferryman?
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Home, like enough. But he won't
chance it across before morning.
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River's swole up mighty angry.
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- Could you put us up for the night?
- Where you from?
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[Pittenger] Flemingsburg, Kentucky.
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Inn's pretty full.
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We can pay double.
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[thunder]
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They're from Flemingsburg, too.
There's a score of us in all.
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We couldn't abide the Yankees anymore
so we pulled up stakes.
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Gonna throw in our lot
with the Southern army.
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Come in, all of ya.
It won't cost you a cent.
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Flemingsburg? I can't rightly say
I've ever been to Flemingsburg.
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Unless you wanna be under the thumb
of the abolitionists, you better not go now.
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I never thought Kentucky would be run
by clay-eaters and poor white trash!
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There's some mighty fine folks
in Kentucky.
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Yes, and more of them
are coming south every day.
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Isn't that just giving up
your state to the Yankees?
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They've got it already.
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They're so strong in the legislature,
they passed a law
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that any man fighting for the South
forfeits his state's rights
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- to citizenship, land and holdings.
- Has it come to that?
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Yes, sir. I know that to be true.
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The governor of Kentucky has four sons.
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Two are fighting for the Yankees,
and two are in my regiment.
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They told me that unless we won,
they could never go home again.
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Damn Yankees!
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Jess, you're at table.
Quit your swearing.
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"Damn Yankee" ain't swearing, Mother,
and you know it.
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Jem, maybe the brave Kentuckians
would like to join your regiment.
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I'd be mighty proud to have them,
if you can wait till this comes off.
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I'd take you to Chattanooga with me,
introduce you to General Ledbetter.
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We're honored, but we had our hearts set
on enlisting in the 1st Georgia regiment.
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Some of our friends have already joined it,
and we're anxious to push on.
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1st Georgia!
Did you hear that, Mother?
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No river's gonna hold you back.
That ferryman doesn't like flood water,
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but he'll take you over first thing
in the morning or find himself out of a job.
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[Innkeeper] I knew it. I knew Jess Mclntyre
would help you.
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- They're helping us, ain't they?
- Yes, sir!
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- Retha, give them boys more chicken.
- Yes, ma'am.
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You're all very kind,
kinder than we deserve.
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That's right.
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[Innkeeper] You won't have no trouble at
all. Once folks find out what you're up to,
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they'll put the big pot in the little one.
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[Innkeeper] Well, look who's here!
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[Retha] Land sakes, but you're wet!
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You need some of Retha's cooking,
Mr. Andrews.
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Sounds mighty good.
Smells even better.
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I think I'll get warm first.
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Evening.
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[Innkeeper] Retha, fetch Mr. Andrews
that peach brandy, you hear?
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Yes, ma'am.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I have great news.
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On the strength of it, I'd ask you all
to have a glass with me...
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if I knew the color of your politics.
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You needn't worry about these boys.
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They've been living amongst Yankees,
but they're coming out on the right side.
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Good.
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We won a great victory at Shiloh.
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- Did Beauregard lick that buzzard Grant?
- [Andrews] Cut him to ribbons.
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What about the Yankee gunboats
at Pittsburgh Landing?
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100 of them sunk,
and thousands of prisoners taken.
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The whole Yankee force,
gone up the spout.
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[cheers]
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Isn't that wonderful?
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Ladies and gentlemen...
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I give you a toast.
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The Confederacy.
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You don't seem very happy
over our victory, Mr. Campbell.
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He's not. He wants to kill
all the Yankees himself.
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[laughter]
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- Sounds like a Kentuckian.
- We're all from Kentucky.
230
00:15:51,237 --> 00:15:53,501
You'll find plenty of action later on, sir.
231
00:15:53,573 --> 00:15:57,168
But before you go any further South,
there's one thing we must teach you.
232
00:15:57,243 --> 00:15:58,642
What's that?
233
00:15:58,711 --> 00:16:00,201
Dixie.
234
00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:01,576
- Sing it.
- May I?
235
00:16:01,647 --> 00:16:04,912
[Innkeeper] Go right ahead.
Come on, boys, gather 'round.
236
00:16:09,321 --> 00:16:14,190
♪ Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times there are not forgotten ?
237
00:16:14,259 --> 00:16:18,696
♪ Look away, look away
Look away, Dixie Land ?
238
00:16:18,764 --> 00:16:23,030
♪ In Dixie Land where I was born
In early on one frosty morn ?
239
00:16:23,101 --> 00:16:27,367
♪ Look away, look away
Look away, Dixie Land ?
240
00:16:27,439 --> 00:16:31,967
♪ Then I wish I was in Dixie
Away, away ?
241
00:16:32,044 --> 00:16:36,572
♪ In Dixie Land I'll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie ?
242
00:16:36,648 --> 00:16:41,244
♪ Away, away
Away down south in Dixie ?
243
00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:47,589
♪ Away, away
Away down south in Dixie ?
244
00:16:47,659 --> 00:16:50,253
♪ Away, away... ?
245
00:16:50,329 --> 00:16:53,196
?Away down south in Dixie ?
246
00:17:08,447 --> 00:17:12,713
Mr. Campbell, do you have
something on your mind?
247
00:17:12,784 --> 00:17:14,774
I wanna know just one thing.
248
00:17:15,786 --> 00:17:19,722
Do we have to be better Southerners
than the Johnny Rebs themselves?
249
00:17:21,058 --> 00:17:24,186
I went pretty far tonight.
But let me tell you this:
250
00:17:24,261 --> 00:17:27,924
If you can't drink their toasts
and sing their songs,
251
00:17:27,999 --> 00:17:32,402
love Jeff Davis and hate Abe Lincoln
until next Friday,
252
00:17:32,470 --> 00:17:34,404
you'll never reach Marietta.
253
00:17:35,606 --> 00:17:37,267
I'm sorry.
254
00:17:37,341 --> 00:17:40,003
Then you were exaggerating about Shiloh?
255
00:17:40,077 --> 00:17:41,669
Yes.
256
00:17:43,014 --> 00:17:47,178
When I bring them good news, I'm doubly
welcome. The truth is bad enough.
257
00:17:47,251 --> 00:17:49,344
Bad enough to stop
General Mitchell's advance?
258
00:17:49,420 --> 00:17:53,151
No. Shiloh can't stop him,
but the devilish rains may.
259
00:17:53,224 --> 00:17:56,455
The trouble is, our movements and his
have to dovetail.
260
00:17:56,527 --> 00:17:58,825
[Andrews] He has an army
and cannon to move.
261
00:18:02,633 --> 00:18:06,626
It's taking a chance, but we'll have
to postpone our plans for one day.
262
00:18:07,972 --> 00:18:11,601
I'll wait here for the rest of the men.
You go into Chattanooga,
263
00:18:11,676 --> 00:18:16,045
and if you see any of the boys who didn't
come this way, pass the word along.
264
00:18:26,123 --> 00:18:28,647
[snoring]
265
00:18:41,604 --> 00:18:44,072
What'd you do before the war?
266
00:18:46,142 --> 00:18:48,406
Taught school a while.
267
00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:52,944
How do you like this business?
268
00:18:55,485 --> 00:18:58,079
There's one side of it I can't get used to.
269
00:18:58,154 --> 00:19:00,679
Mr. Mclntyre...
270
00:19:00,757 --> 00:19:04,090
and the widow woman
who fed us and gave us her bed...
271
00:19:06,629 --> 00:19:09,962
When I deceive 'em, I feel like
the lowest snake that crawls.
272
00:19:11,835 --> 00:19:13,325
I know.
273
00:19:13,403 --> 00:19:17,806
That soldier,
he's supposed to be my enemy.
274
00:19:19,743 --> 00:19:23,076
I'm supposed to hate him
the way Campbell does.
275
00:19:25,248 --> 00:19:27,478
But I don't think I can.
276
00:19:29,586 --> 00:19:32,646
It's worse when a Southerner's
your best friend.
277
00:19:33,656 --> 00:19:35,783
Like old Jim Lindsay.
278
00:19:37,260 --> 00:19:42,094
Even picked out the girl I'm going to marry,
'cause she's Yankee-minded like me.
279
00:19:43,332 --> 00:19:46,927
Now that I've turned spy
and have to fool him,
280
00:19:47,002 --> 00:19:50,335
I can hardly look him in the eye anymore.
281
00:19:50,405 --> 00:19:52,532
How do you stand it?
282
00:19:55,277 --> 00:19:57,404
I believe in a federal union.
283
00:19:58,947 --> 00:20:00,539
So do I.
284
00:20:03,018 --> 00:20:06,283
I hope we can preserve it
without any more Shilohs.
285
00:20:09,024 --> 00:20:11,788
They say the slaughter was so fierce
on both sides,
286
00:20:11,860 --> 00:20:15,626
you could walk across the field
on dead bodies like stepping stones.
287
00:20:18,033 --> 00:20:22,231
How would you like to put a stop
to that, Pittenger?
288
00:20:22,304 --> 00:20:24,772
Could we, with what we're doing?
289
00:20:26,041 --> 00:20:27,770
Maybe we can.
290
00:20:32,481 --> 00:20:35,473
[Pittenger] We managed to be on the
Friday train, headed south.
291
00:20:35,551 --> 00:20:36,986
So far, we were lucky.
292
00:20:37,219 --> 00:20:40,484
[standing soldier] ♪ A rebel I will be
A rebel till I die ♪
293
00:20:40,556 --> 00:20:44,492
♪ I would not give a fig
To live under a Yankee sky ♪
294
00:20:46,195 --> 00:20:52,395
♪ We are sons of holy Dinah
And we go where we've a mind to ♪
295
00:20:52,468 --> 00:20:56,267
♪ And we stay where we're inclined to
As long as we have fun ♪
296
00:20:56,337 --> 00:21:00,398
♪ Oh, we licked the Yanks at Shiloh
Oh-my, oh-my, oh-my-oh ♪
297
00:21:00,475 --> 00:21:04,104
♪ Yes, we licked the Yanks at Shiloh
Just to see how they would run ♪
298
00:21:04,178 --> 00:21:08,012
♪ We are sons of holy Dinah
And we'll go where we've a mind to ♪
299
00:21:08,082 --> 00:21:11,813
♪ But right now we're inclined to
Go home and rest a spell ♪
300
00:21:11,886 --> 00:21:15,481
♪ But when we're tired of eatin'
We will give them Yanks a beatin' ♪
301
00:21:15,556 --> 00:21:19,458
♪ And they'll all be retreatin'
When we give the rebel yell ♪
302
00:21:19,527 --> 00:21:21,017
[whoops]
303
00:21:25,900 --> 00:21:28,892
How many Yankees
can one Southerner whup?
304
00:21:28,970 --> 00:21:30,494
[all soldiers] Five!
305
00:21:30,571 --> 00:21:31,970
- [standing soldier] How many?
- [all soldiers] Ten!
306
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,507
[standing soldier] That's more like it!
307
00:21:33,574 --> 00:21:37,374
One company of Southerners
armed with popguns
308
00:21:37,445 --> 00:21:40,937
could run a whole regiment of Yankees
clean out of the country!
309
00:21:41,015 --> 00:21:42,846
[standing soldier] - Am I right?
[all soldiers] - Right!
310
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,351
- Gettin' off?
- No.
311
00:21:47,422 --> 00:21:51,916
- Thought maybe I'd get your seat.
- No, just stretching.
312
00:21:51,993 --> 00:21:53,551
Look at that cannon!
313
00:21:56,097 --> 00:21:57,689
Would you mind?
314
00:21:57,765 --> 00:22:00,165
Don't be ornery, Bill.
Let him see it.
315
00:22:03,204 --> 00:22:05,331
Yankee army issue!
316
00:22:05,406 --> 00:22:07,805
Where'd you get it?
317
00:22:09,409 --> 00:22:11,343
I say, where'd you get it?
318
00:22:11,411 --> 00:22:13,402
Took it off a dead Yank.
319
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,072
Which battle?
320
00:22:15,148 --> 00:22:17,207
Battle for our hen coop!
321
00:22:17,284 --> 00:22:20,617
That's all any of them Yankees are,
chicken stealers.
322
00:22:22,289 --> 00:22:24,723
You hear that?
Chicken stealers!
323
00:22:27,027 --> 00:22:29,495
[conductor] Station-stop,
Kingston, Kingston.
324
00:22:37,070 --> 00:22:39,061
What do you think you're doing?
325
00:22:39,139 --> 00:22:43,735
He didn't mean any harm.
He just can't help playing jokes on people.
326
00:22:43,810 --> 00:22:47,871
I wasn't speaking to you. Why'd you go
and play a cheap Yankee trick like that?
327
00:22:49,182 --> 00:22:52,913
You're right welcome to the seat.
I was just havin' a little fun.
328
00:22:52,986 --> 00:22:55,580
I'll be dogged if he can't
even talk like a Yankee.
329
00:22:55,655 --> 00:22:58,317
Sit down here, pint-pot,
and see if you can teach me.
330
00:23:10,470 --> 00:23:14,406
[Pittenger] In spite of Campbell and
Buff um, we all reached Marietta in safety
331
00:23:14,474 --> 00:23:17,409
and spent a restless night
in the Railroad Hotel.
332
00:23:17,477 --> 00:23:20,274
With the dawn, we were
ready for the big day.
333
00:23:30,456 --> 00:23:34,290
Two fair days in a row.
You don't know what that sun means to us.
334
00:23:41,367 --> 00:23:43,767
What are the fine clothes for, Mr. Andrews?
335
00:23:43,836 --> 00:23:46,771
Today I'm an official
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
336
00:23:46,839 --> 00:23:50,400
- A very high official, I hope.
- You are the president, at least!
337
00:24:03,455 --> 00:24:06,913
It's 15 minutes till train time.
You know what you have to do.
338
00:24:06,992 --> 00:24:08,857
Let's have a final check.
339
00:24:08,928 --> 00:24:11,726
Which of you are buying tickets
to Allatoona?
340
00:24:11,797 --> 00:24:13,731
Kingston? Calhoun?
341
00:24:13,799 --> 00:24:16,165
Resaca?
And Chattanooga?
342
00:24:16,235 --> 00:24:19,329
Good. That way it won't appear
we're traveling together.
343
00:24:19,405 --> 00:24:21,999
Knight, Brown and Alf Wilson,
sit close to me.
344
00:24:22,074 --> 00:24:25,566
One last thing: When the train stops
at Big Shanty for breakfast,
345
00:24:25,644 --> 00:24:28,169
keep your seats till I give you the signal.
346
00:24:28,247 --> 00:24:30,238
Good luck, gentlemen.
347
00:24:31,283 --> 00:24:34,115
- Mr. Andrews?
- Mr. Ross?
348
00:24:34,185 --> 00:24:38,781
After you outlined the plan last night,
Bill Campbell and I got to talking it over.
349
00:24:38,856 --> 00:24:43,225
Tearing up the track behind us
and burning the bridges all makes sense,
350
00:24:43,294 --> 00:24:45,524
but why steal the train at Big Shanty?
351
00:24:45,597 --> 00:24:48,794
It's a breakfast stop for the crew
as well as the passengers.
352
00:24:48,866 --> 00:24:50,925
There's no telegraph there, either.
353
00:24:51,002 --> 00:24:53,493
There's a Confederate camp
with 4,000 men.
354
00:24:53,571 --> 00:24:56,062
Must we steal an engine
in full view of the Southern army?
355
00:24:56,140 --> 00:24:58,438
Know any place they won't suspect it?
356
00:24:58,509 --> 00:25:02,411
Yes. Any deserted part of the track
north of this town.
357
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,574
- [Andrews] That'd mean a fight.
- What's the matter with a fight?
358
00:25:05,650 --> 00:25:08,847
- You never know how it'll come out.
- I know how I'm coming out.
359
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,184
I've had a bellyful
of this bowin' and scrapin'
360
00:25:11,204 --> 00:25:14,316
and sweet-talking every
loudmouth Sesech in the state of Georgia.
361
00:25:14,392 --> 00:25:18,385
If you want to capture this train
in a fair fight, you can count on me.
362
00:25:18,463 --> 00:25:20,590
If you don't, I ain't going.
363
00:25:20,665 --> 00:25:24,999
Mr. Campbell, your company commander
said you'd be worth ten in a fight.
364
00:25:25,069 --> 00:25:28,004
That's why I brought you along,
just in case.
365
00:25:28,072 --> 00:25:30,199
But we didn't come to fight.
366
00:25:30,275 --> 00:25:32,334
We came to burn railroad bridges.
367
00:25:32,410 --> 00:25:35,607
If you don't like the plan,
you're free to drop out now.
368
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,148
If you come, you'll do it my way.
369
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,531
[train bell]
370
00:25:56,099 --> 00:25:59,159
- Cloudin' over.
- Yeah. Is it gonna rain?
371
00:25:59,236 --> 00:26:02,433
Might could. It rains one minute,
shines the next.
372
00:26:23,126 --> 00:26:24,616
[conductor] All aboard!
373
00:26:24,694 --> 00:26:28,858
[train whistle]
374
00:27:05,234 --> 00:27:09,261
- Good morning, conductor.
- Morning.
375
00:27:09,338 --> 00:27:10,999
Didn't you get on at Marietta?
376
00:27:11,073 --> 00:27:12,335
Yes.
377
00:27:14,643 --> 00:27:17,168
You mind if we have a word?
378
00:27:27,256 --> 00:27:29,190
What do you know about those men?
379
00:27:32,061 --> 00:27:34,393
Is there anything remarkable about them?
380
00:27:34,463 --> 00:27:37,990
It's the first time that many passengers
ever got on at Marietta.
381
00:27:38,067 --> 00:27:43,130
And all together, too. Now they're making
out like they don't even know each other.
382
00:27:44,673 --> 00:27:49,474
If they're deserters, I've got orders to turn
them over to the authorities at Big Shanty.
383
00:27:50,613 --> 00:27:53,081
Why are you telling me this?
384
00:27:53,482 --> 00:27:55,814
Because you seem to be with 'em.
385
00:27:57,152 --> 00:28:01,145
- You don't miss much, do you?
- Not much, Mr. Andrews.
386
00:28:01,890 --> 00:28:04,950
- You know my name?
- You've ridden the train before.
387
00:28:06,662 --> 00:28:10,723
All right. In a way you're an official,
so I can tell you this.
388
00:28:12,234 --> 00:28:16,499
Those men are on government business,
bound for Yankee land, and so am I.
389
00:28:17,305 --> 00:28:18,704
Blockade running?
390
00:28:18,773 --> 00:28:21,901
Maybe that. Maybe something more.
391
00:28:35,523 --> 00:28:38,083
You don't get a letter like that
from Brigadier General Beauregard
392
00:28:38,159 --> 00:28:42,391
- just for running quinine.
- No, I reckon you don't.
393
00:28:44,265 --> 00:28:47,598
I'd give my right arm
to serve under that man.
394
00:28:48,603 --> 00:28:50,503
You are.
395
00:28:50,571 --> 00:28:53,233
This railroad is the artery
that pumps fresh blood
396
00:28:53,308 --> 00:28:56,038
in the army of the Mississippi
on the left hand,
397
00:28:56,110 --> 00:28:58,601
and the army of Northern Virginia
on the right.
398
00:28:59,714 --> 00:29:03,810
Beauregard and Robert E. Lee
would perish without men like you.
399
00:29:06,254 --> 00:29:09,155
Well, thank you.
400
00:29:09,223 --> 00:29:11,817
[train whistle]
401
00:29:12,894 --> 00:29:16,421
Station stop. Big Shanty.
Twenty minutes for breakfast.
402
00:29:18,232 --> 00:29:20,598
Our inspector, Mr. Murphy,
is on board today.
403
00:29:20,668 --> 00:29:23,330
He'd be mighty proud to have you
take breakfast with us.
404
00:29:23,404 --> 00:29:25,668
Thank you, but I've already eaten.
405
00:29:25,740 --> 00:29:27,468
My name's William Fuller.
406
00:29:27,541 --> 00:29:30,977
Have a good meal, Mr. Fuller,
and don't worry about deserters.
407
00:29:31,044 --> 00:29:33,035
I'll take care of your train.
408
00:29:33,113 --> 00:29:36,776
[train bell]
409
00:30:01,007 --> 00:30:03,874
- Work up an appetite?
- Mr. Murphy did. He brought her in.
410
00:30:03,944 --> 00:30:06,538
Keeping your hand in?
411
00:30:13,820 --> 00:30:16,084
Come on, boys.
It's time to go now.
412
00:30:38,979 --> 00:30:41,105
Uncouple here.
413
00:30:45,918 --> 00:30:47,249
Get in.
414
00:30:56,061 --> 00:30:57,392
Come on, boys.
415
00:30:57,463 --> 00:31:01,399
When it's orders from Beauregard,
we can't keep the General waiting.
416
00:31:18,150 --> 00:31:20,118
Let her roll.
417
00:31:20,186 --> 00:31:23,849
Thank you, Dixie.
What's been happening in Big Shanty?
418
00:31:23,923 --> 00:31:25,720
Right smart nothing.
419
00:31:36,302 --> 00:31:39,760
- Who did it? Did you see 'em?
- Deserters from the camp, most likely.
420
00:31:39,839 --> 00:31:41,807
They won't go far.
421
00:31:50,316 --> 00:31:52,943
We're through playing Rebs!
We're Yankees again!
422
00:31:53,017 --> 00:31:55,611
I can talk! I can open my mouth!
423
00:31:55,687 --> 00:31:56,949
Go ahead!
424
00:32:26,951 --> 00:32:29,977
Repairmen. Andrews is talking to them.
425
00:32:35,026 --> 00:32:37,358
He borrowed their tools.
426
00:32:39,097 --> 00:32:41,224
I don't know why
we have to take the South.
427
00:32:41,299 --> 00:32:44,029
If Andrews asked for it,
they'd give it to him.
428
00:33:10,327 --> 00:33:13,455
If we'd taken all their tools
instead of asking "pretty please,"
429
00:33:13,530 --> 00:33:16,055
we might've got a handspike
with a claw on it.
430
00:33:16,133 --> 00:33:18,658
Let a real man handle it, Bill.
431
00:33:19,937 --> 00:33:22,929
Put half of them in the car
nearest the tender.
432
00:33:28,312 --> 00:33:33,113
- It's all we could find in the toolbox.
- We'll have to make 'em do.
433
00:33:41,358 --> 00:33:43,019
Think we're being followed?
434
00:33:43,093 --> 00:33:45,618
Can't be. There's no train
south of us short of Atlanta,
435
00:33:45,696 --> 00:33:48,563
and they'll have to go to Marietta
before they can send out a telegram.
436
00:33:48,632 --> 00:33:52,227
The only train we've got to worry about is
that freight we're due to pass at Kingston.
437
00:33:52,302 --> 00:33:55,794
That torn track'll block everything below us,
and once we get that wire cut,
438
00:33:55,872 --> 00:33:58,102
they can't send warning to those above.
439
00:34:06,850 --> 00:34:10,308
Tighter yet.
A little more. There.
440
00:34:14,925 --> 00:34:19,123
Now cut it at the next pole and take a
length with us. Nobody'll catch us then.
441
00:34:31,807 --> 00:34:35,538
Did you get a look at 'em?
The men who stole my train?
442
00:34:35,611 --> 00:34:37,442
- Stole, is it?
- Yeah. Did they stop?
443
00:34:37,513 --> 00:34:39,208
- They did.
- What for?
444
00:34:39,281 --> 00:34:41,749
The official stepped down
and borrowed some tools.
445
00:34:41,817 --> 00:34:44,877
- A Mr. Andrews?
- I didn't ask. He came from Beauregard.
446
00:34:44,954 --> 00:34:47,218
That's the one.
447
00:34:48,691 --> 00:34:52,752
- Who were they? Conscripts?
- No, a Mr. Andrews.
448
00:34:52,828 --> 00:34:55,558
He got on at Marietta
with some Secret Service men.
449
00:34:55,631 --> 00:34:58,464
- He showed me a letter from Beauregard.
- An authorization?
450
00:34:58,534 --> 00:35:01,867
No. It was right much an order
to help out any way we could.
451
00:35:01,937 --> 00:35:05,134
I'll help him when I get
to that telegraph in Allatoona.
452
00:35:05,207 --> 00:35:08,301
Maybe next time you'll stop and ask
if he is an army man.
453
00:35:08,377 --> 00:35:10,106
We'll need that push car.
454
00:35:10,179 --> 00:35:13,273
Take it and welcome, Mr. Murphy.
Hoist it up, boys.
455
00:35:35,070 --> 00:35:38,904
♪ Blow the whistle, clear the track
When I'm gone I won't be back ♪
456
00:35:38,973 --> 00:35:42,374
♪ My pappy was a railroadin' man ♪
457
00:35:42,444 --> 00:35:46,608
♪ Well, I stole a locomotive
Just to take a ride ♪
458
00:35:46,681 --> 00:35:50,344
Be quiet!
We're coming to a station.
459
00:35:52,887 --> 00:35:54,616
What station?
460
00:35:54,689 --> 00:35:57,021
- Allatoona.
- Just a crossroads.
461
00:35:58,893 --> 00:36:02,886
♪ I stole a locomotive
Just to take a ride ♪
462
00:36:02,964 --> 00:36:06,456
♪ 'Cause my pappy
was a railroadin' man ♪
463
00:36:06,534 --> 00:36:08,695
Brown, you wanna take her?
464
00:36:13,975 --> 00:36:16,569
Keep her down.
We gotta run on schedule.
465
00:36:27,822 --> 00:36:29,153
Jump!
466
00:36:35,930 --> 00:36:37,591
You all right?
467
00:36:43,404 --> 00:36:46,463
Those scoundrels are spies,
but not for Beauregard.
468
00:36:46,540 --> 00:36:48,804
Only damn Yankees would do
a trick like that.
469
00:36:48,876 --> 00:36:51,367
Whatever they're up to,
they mean business.
470
00:37:06,827 --> 00:37:08,954
Sit on the front facing forward, Jeff.
471
00:37:09,029 --> 00:37:11,623
You're an old hand at watching the tracks.
472
00:37:29,116 --> 00:37:30,708
Mr. Andrews!
473
00:37:36,590 --> 00:37:40,686
There's an iron works four miles east.
That must be her yard engine.
474
00:37:40,761 --> 00:37:42,422
Hadn't we better destroy her?
475
00:37:42,496 --> 00:37:45,727
Not worth the risk.
We're too close to Kingston.
476
00:37:45,799 --> 00:37:48,597
Ease on through the station, but don't stop.
477
00:37:48,669 --> 00:37:50,261
Let 'em hear the bell.
478
00:37:50,337 --> 00:37:51,668
[bell rings]
479
00:37:51,738 --> 00:37:55,799
- We're slowing down.
- Get ready.
480
00:38:03,816 --> 00:38:06,376
There's a locomotive back there
and he ran right on by it.
481
00:38:06,452 --> 00:38:10,821
- I thought we were wrecking this railroad.
- Give him a chance, will ya?
482
00:38:26,405 --> 00:38:30,068
- Can you get a message to Kingston?
- No, the line's gone dead.
483
00:38:30,142 --> 00:38:32,736
- They're cutting the wire between stations.
- Who is?
484
00:38:32,812 --> 00:38:35,781
The Yankees that stole my train!
485
00:38:35,848 --> 00:38:38,578
Hey, Reid! They've taken up a rail
two miles south.
486
00:38:38,651 --> 00:38:41,882
Get a flagman down there to stop
any train from Atlanta.
487
00:38:45,958 --> 00:38:49,223
[train bell]
488
00:38:52,665 --> 00:38:56,123
All right, boys. I'm gonna wait here
for the southbound train.
489
00:38:56,202 --> 00:38:58,067
There's a train on the sidetrack.
490
00:38:58,137 --> 00:39:01,868
Goes between here and Rome.
Waiting for Atlanta passengers.
491
00:39:01,941 --> 00:39:04,432
Pull past the switch,
then back in ahead of her.
492
00:39:04,510 --> 00:39:06,569
Couldn't we make it into Adairsville?
493
00:39:06,646 --> 00:39:10,138
No, we might run head-on
into that southbound freight.
494
00:39:10,216 --> 00:39:11,706
We've gotta wait.
495
00:39:33,104 --> 00:39:36,835
You boys oil up the engine.
You're too busy to bother with anybody.
496
00:39:36,908 --> 00:39:38,466
Understand?
497
00:39:42,514 --> 00:39:44,004
I'll do the talking.
498
00:39:48,787 --> 00:39:50,778
Looks like I'll have to do plenty.
499
00:39:56,861 --> 00:39:59,796
Hand me that wrench.
500
00:39:59,864 --> 00:40:01,855
I reckon I don't know you.
501
00:40:01,933 --> 00:40:03,992
It's their engine, all right.
502
00:40:04,069 --> 00:40:06,333
But there ain't none of their men aboard.
503
00:40:06,404 --> 00:40:08,736
Gentlemen, I've taken this train
by government authority
504
00:40:08,807 --> 00:40:11,207
and I'm running it through to Beauregard.
505
00:40:13,812 --> 00:40:15,746
Where's Jeff Cain and Fuller?
506
00:40:15,814 --> 00:40:18,476
They were fitting out another train
when we left Atlanta.
507
00:40:18,550 --> 00:40:22,077
I got a dispatch for Fuller to wait here until
the southbound freight passes.
508
00:40:22,153 --> 00:40:25,952
He'll be along. The southbound freight
may have to wait for him.
509
00:40:29,693 --> 00:40:31,684
What you got in them boxcars?
510
00:40:31,762 --> 00:40:35,095
Enough ammunition to blow this depot
to kingdom come.
511
00:40:38,969 --> 00:40:41,802
One of them was pointing toward us.
512
00:40:41,872 --> 00:40:44,841
They all look mighty suspicious.
513
00:41:02,726 --> 00:41:04,455
From the north.
514
00:41:14,204 --> 00:41:16,399
All right, boys. Here we go.
515
00:41:27,718 --> 00:41:29,083
[Andrews] Engineer!
516
00:41:29,153 --> 00:41:31,883
I'm running an ammunition train
down to Beauregard.
517
00:41:31,956 --> 00:41:35,858
- Will you pull down and clear the tracks?
- You can't take no train north. Not yet.
518
00:41:35,926 --> 00:41:39,588
- [engineer] There's another behind me.
- Pete Bracken's express freight?
519
00:41:39,662 --> 00:41:41,721
[engineer] No, one that ain't scheduled.
520
00:41:41,798 --> 00:41:44,699
- Can't be.
- Maybe there can't be but there is.
521
00:41:44,767 --> 00:41:46,132
Ain't you heard the news?
522
00:41:46,202 --> 00:41:50,161
A Yankee general named Mitchell marched
down and captured Huntsville yesterday.
523
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:51,501
[train yard worker] I'll be darned!
524
00:41:51,574 --> 00:41:54,065
[engineer] Took every train
on the Memphis and Charleston road.
525
00:41:54,143 --> 00:41:57,579
We're hauling bacon out of Chattanooga
before the Yankees get there.
526
00:41:57,647 --> 00:42:02,084
If you tried to get through to Beauregard
now, you'd run right smack into old Mitch.
527
00:42:02,151 --> 00:42:05,314
Didn't Ledbetter go
to defend Chattanooga?
528
00:42:05,388 --> 00:42:06,650
He'll try.
529
00:42:06,723 --> 00:42:09,453
Then he'll need ammunition
even more than Beauregard.
530
00:42:09,525 --> 00:42:12,824
Will you pull your train way down
so that other freight can clear?
531
00:42:15,632 --> 00:42:19,193
[steam puffing]
532
00:42:36,686 --> 00:42:39,154
- It's Knight. Can you hear me?
- Go ahead.
533
00:42:39,222 --> 00:42:42,123
- We'll have to wait longer than planned.
- [Pittenger] What's up?
534
00:42:42,191 --> 00:42:44,853
Mitchell got through yesterday.
Captured Huntsville.
535
00:42:44,927 --> 00:42:47,987
The enemy is running extra freight trains
and clogging up the road.
536
00:42:48,064 --> 00:42:50,897
He got through. We're too late!
I'm getting out of here!
537
00:42:50,967 --> 00:42:54,163
Shut up and listen.
Andrews says to lie low and wait.
538
00:42:54,236 --> 00:42:57,933
If these folks get too suspicious, be ready
to jump out and give it to 'em hot and fast.
539
00:42:58,006 --> 00:43:00,099
- What'll be our signal?
- A pistol shot.
540
00:43:00,175 --> 00:43:04,839
If the station master tries to send a
message up the line, we might shoot him.
541
00:43:05,580 --> 00:43:07,241
That's more like it.
542
00:43:13,155 --> 00:43:16,147
Yonah!
543
00:43:16,224 --> 00:43:19,022
[Murphy and Fuller] Yonah! Wait for us!
544
00:43:26,668 --> 00:43:29,694
- Uncouple your cars, Hilly!
- We gotta borrow your engine.
545
00:43:35,544 --> 00:43:39,378
Get on the tender, boys. We're chasing
down Yankees, and we need your guns.
546
00:43:39,448 --> 00:43:41,848
We've got orders
to report to Camp MacDonald.
547
00:43:41,917 --> 00:43:43,908
Can't get through today.
The track's out below.
548
00:43:43,985 --> 00:43:47,443
What do you want to do,
drill or shoot Yankees? Come on!
549
00:43:49,958 --> 00:43:53,689
Open her up, Hilly!
Let's stoke that peanut burner.
550
00:44:09,043 --> 00:44:13,104
Something's wrong.
Something's bad wrong, I tell you.
551
00:44:25,192 --> 00:44:27,660
- How long?
- 45 minutes.
552
00:44:27,728 --> 00:44:31,528
Burn their bridges, will we?
Looks like we burned our own!
553
00:44:34,468 --> 00:44:35,799
Campbell!
554
00:44:36,937 --> 00:44:41,271
You'll wait here, like the rest.
That's an order.
555
00:44:44,278 --> 00:44:46,143
We ain't in uniform now.
556
00:44:46,213 --> 00:44:49,114
- We're still soldiers.
- No, we ain't.
557
00:44:49,183 --> 00:44:51,777
We're Yankee contraband
smuggled into a boxcar
558
00:44:51,852 --> 00:44:54,650
by a slick-talking blockade runner.
559
00:44:54,722 --> 00:44:57,088
He hasn't failed us yet.
560
00:45:01,428 --> 00:45:05,421
All right.
I'll give him five more minutes.
561
00:45:13,908 --> 00:45:18,173
I tell you, I know Bill Fuller.
Ain't a better man on the state road.
562
00:45:18,244 --> 00:45:21,042
He wouldn't be this late
without letting us know.
563
00:45:21,114 --> 00:45:23,639
Why don't you telegraph Atlanta
and find out?
564
00:45:23,716 --> 00:45:26,048
The line to the south's gone dead!
565
00:45:26,119 --> 00:45:28,849
Maybe our friend here can tell us why.
566
00:45:30,723 --> 00:45:32,588
I don't know why.
567
00:45:32,659 --> 00:45:36,618
There are many things about how this road
is run I wouldn't attempt to explain.
568
00:45:36,696 --> 00:45:41,759
But I can tell you this: If Beauregard could
get his orders filled by regular channels
569
00:45:41,835 --> 00:45:45,703
without these ruinous delays, he wouldn't
have sent me to bring his powder through.
570
00:45:45,772 --> 00:45:48,366
It's a shame you folks
have to wait for the train.
571
00:45:48,441 --> 00:45:51,103
But it's more of a shame to block
the road with ordinary travel
572
00:45:51,177 --> 00:45:54,010
when the fate of brave soldiers
hangs in the balance.
573
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,548
Mr. Andrews? I'll get you through.
574
00:45:57,684 --> 00:46:00,278
I'll get an authorization
to clear that track for you
575
00:46:00,353 --> 00:46:04,517
- if I have to go all the way to Richmond.
- No! You needn't do that.
576
00:46:04,591 --> 00:46:06,024
Why not?
577
00:46:06,092 --> 00:46:08,686
Because...
578
00:46:08,928 --> 00:46:11,328
[train whistle]
579
00:46:14,434 --> 00:46:16,834
That freight's coming in now.
580
00:46:29,349 --> 00:46:32,112
- You can throw that switch now.
- Don't reckon I will.
581
00:46:32,184 --> 00:46:35,915
If you was all you claimed to be, we'd have
heard from the road superintendent of you,
582
00:46:35,988 --> 00:46:39,856
- I ain't throwing no switch until we do.
- I'm not above doing it.
583
00:46:54,139 --> 00:46:56,130
- Sorry, Pops.
- Who do you think you are?
584
00:46:56,208 --> 00:46:58,472
Think you own the whole railroad?
585
00:47:12,824 --> 00:47:16,089
Take your hat off to Andrews.
He got us past the big one.
586
00:47:16,762 --> 00:47:18,252
Yeah.
587
00:47:18,330 --> 00:47:20,730
You don't seem very happy about it.
588
00:47:20,799 --> 00:47:25,600
When I was a little boy, my father
locked me in a closet for 14 hours.
589
00:47:26,672 --> 00:47:31,268
I always obeyed him after that,
but I never liked him much.
590
00:47:34,246 --> 00:47:36,373
You're not going to side with him?
591
00:47:36,448 --> 00:47:39,576
No, it's like Pittenger said.
I'm still a soldier.
592
00:47:39,651 --> 00:47:42,916
General Mitchell should've
put someone in command.
593
00:47:42,988 --> 00:47:46,320
- He put Andrews.
- I mean, a soldier to give proper orders.
594
00:47:46,390 --> 00:47:48,654
Like Ross here, or Pittenger, or Knight.
595
00:47:48,726 --> 00:47:51,991
I got so used to taking orders,
I feel kinda lost without 'em.
596
00:47:52,063 --> 00:47:54,588
Andrews said to forget
we'd ever been soldiers.
597
00:47:54,665 --> 00:47:57,133
He'd better pray we don't.
598
00:47:57,201 --> 00:47:59,260
Pull around that bend and stop.
599
00:47:59,337 --> 00:48:01,134
We've gotta cut the wire again.
600
00:48:03,074 --> 00:48:06,840
[train whistle]
601
00:48:16,287 --> 00:48:18,755
They've gone! They got away!
602
00:48:20,224 --> 00:48:21,748
Come on, men!
603
00:48:23,561 --> 00:48:26,291
- Why'd you let those Yankees get away?
- Yankees?
604
00:48:26,364 --> 00:48:29,094
- I thought they was Beauregard's men.
- I told you!
605
00:48:29,166 --> 00:48:30,929
- They're Yankee spies. How many?
- Four.
606
00:48:31,002 --> 00:48:33,402
Try to get a message
to every station up the line, quick.
607
00:48:33,471 --> 00:48:35,905
They're probably
cutting wires right now.
608
00:48:35,973 --> 00:48:39,306
Stephens! Did Pete Bracken
bring in his express freight?
609
00:48:39,377 --> 00:48:40,969
Not yet. They're both extras.
610
00:48:41,045 --> 00:48:44,173
- The Yankees may run into them.
- They know the schedule.
611
00:48:44,849 --> 00:48:46,510
Come on, boys!
612
00:48:50,121 --> 00:48:51,520
Pile on!
613
00:49:37,033 --> 00:49:40,127
[train whistle]
614
00:49:40,203 --> 00:49:41,602
Bracken's freight!
615
00:49:58,388 --> 00:50:02,381
- Here's your coffee, Mr. Bracken.
- Thank you, Henry.
616
00:50:09,799 --> 00:50:11,197
Henry!
617
00:50:22,811 --> 00:50:24,472
Put it in reverse, Pete.
618
00:50:24,546 --> 00:50:27,447
What you men doing here?
Where's your train, Mr. Fuller?
619
00:50:27,516 --> 00:50:31,145
Yankees got it. Back into Adairsville.
We'll drop these cars off at a sidin'.
620
00:50:31,220 --> 00:50:34,678
- Bring her back, we'll explain later.
- Watch my signals, now.
621
00:50:45,134 --> 00:50:48,297
[train whistle]
622
00:51:22,204 --> 00:51:24,603
Yankees stole our train.
Come on!
623
00:51:31,012 --> 00:51:33,879
- My name is Cox.
- I'm Alonso Martin.
624
00:51:33,948 --> 00:51:36,280
- How can we help?
- Pass wood to the fireman.
625
00:51:36,350 --> 00:51:39,080
- We can do that.
- There may be fighting later on.
626
00:51:39,153 --> 00:51:41,144
I reckon we can do that, too.
627
00:51:48,963 --> 00:51:52,694
Those Yankees still have to pass
the Morning Express from Chattanooga.
628
00:51:52,767 --> 00:51:55,531
If she's running on time,
she should be in Calhoun now.
629
00:51:55,603 --> 00:51:59,232
She won't stop Andrews. He talked his way
past three trains at Kingston.
630
00:51:59,307 --> 00:52:01,172
He talked me onto a sidin'.
631
00:52:01,242 --> 00:52:05,440
He'll try to persuade them they've got
a clear track below, and we'll run into her.
632
00:52:05,513 --> 00:52:09,279
What do you want me to do,
run her at half speed?
633
00:52:09,350 --> 00:52:11,477
No. Open her up.
634
00:52:11,552 --> 00:52:13,520
I'll watch the track for you.
635
00:52:13,588 --> 00:52:18,389
Keep that whistle going! Let 'em know
we're on their tail so they won't rip up track!
636
00:52:18,459 --> 00:52:21,223
[train whistle]
637
00:52:22,196 --> 00:52:25,927
- When did those Yankees pull outta here?
- Yankees? What Yankees?
638
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,663
Powder-train Yankees. They stole
the General at Big Shanty.
639
00:52:29,737 --> 00:52:32,001
- When'd they leave?
- Ten minutes ago.
640
00:52:32,073 --> 00:52:36,009
Grab all the men and guns you can find
and follow us. We're gonna run 'em down.
641
00:52:36,077 --> 00:52:40,035
- Your telegraph working?
- No, but there's the operator from Dalton.
642
00:52:46,553 --> 00:52:48,145
Come on here, slim.
643
00:52:51,291 --> 00:52:54,852
- Why aren't you up at Dalton's?
- Got a dispatch saying the wire was dead,
644
00:52:54,928 --> 00:52:57,624
so I rode the express down
to find the break and fix it.
645
00:52:57,697 --> 00:53:00,222
Yankees have been cutting the wire.
Come on.
646
00:53:01,701 --> 00:53:06,695
I want you to take down a telegram
to General Ledbetter in Chattanooga.
647
00:53:07,707 --> 00:53:10,767
When we get to Dalton,
we'll drop you off so you can send it.
648
00:53:10,844 --> 00:53:15,508
"My train was captured by Federal spies
making for Chattanooga,
649
00:53:15,582 --> 00:53:18,710
"possibly hoping to burn
bridges behind them.
650
00:53:18,785 --> 00:53:21,515
"If I do not capture them,
651
00:53:21,588 --> 00:53:23,317
'try to head them off.
652
00:53:23,390 --> 00:53:25,722
"Signed, William A. Fuller."
653
00:53:28,495 --> 00:53:31,623
It's the last time we're
gonna have to do this, boys.
654
00:53:31,698 --> 00:53:35,725
- Get one end free, we'll do the rest.
- Now you're using your head.
655
00:53:39,806 --> 00:53:41,569
Shimmy up there, monkey boy.
656
00:53:42,809 --> 00:53:47,007
When we get this one up, we'll have left
broken track for every train south of us,
657
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,548
and clear road ahead
all the way into Chattanooga.
658
00:53:49,616 --> 00:53:52,413
- No more Kingston, sir?
- What was the matter with Kingston?
659
00:53:52,484 --> 00:53:58,047
I've been in tight places, but that's the first
time I've been a live corpse in a coffin!
660
00:53:58,123 --> 00:54:00,318
That's all behind us now.
661
00:54:00,392 --> 00:54:05,489
[train whistle]
662
00:54:05,564 --> 00:54:08,829
- Who are they?
- Must be that express train.
663
00:54:08,901 --> 00:54:11,631
- Shall we wreck her?
- They might wreck us.
664
00:54:11,704 --> 00:54:14,332
They wouldn't be coming like that
without a force on board.
665
00:54:14,406 --> 00:54:16,931
Knight, how about it?
666
00:54:17,009 --> 00:54:19,443
We've got as good a locomotive
as ever need to be.
667
00:54:19,511 --> 00:54:22,378
With clear track ahead, it'll outrun
anything we've passed yet.
668
00:54:22,448 --> 00:54:25,383
Then let her go.
Give her every ounce of steam she's got.
669
00:54:25,451 --> 00:54:28,511
Put that rail on board!
Lively!
670
00:54:28,587 --> 00:54:32,455
[train whistle]
671
00:55:06,457 --> 00:55:08,482
Knock the ends out of all the cars, boys.
672
00:55:08,559 --> 00:55:10,652
Make a walkway all the way through.
673
00:55:10,728 --> 00:55:14,027
[banging]
674
00:55:21,205 --> 00:55:26,040
[train whistle]
675
00:55:36,888 --> 00:55:39,220
[train whistle]
676
00:55:52,470 --> 00:55:54,836
[train whistle]
677
00:56:32,309 --> 00:56:35,176
[train whistle]
678
00:56:46,156 --> 00:56:48,283
Stop her when we're well past the trestle,
679
00:56:48,358 --> 00:56:52,192
then reverse and run at half speed
as soon as I give you the signal.
680
00:57:04,207 --> 00:57:07,472
Boys! Bring your coats!
We're gonna drop that car.
681
00:57:17,954 --> 00:57:19,216
- Buff um?
- Yes?
682
00:57:19,289 --> 00:57:20,756
Pull the pin.
683
00:57:25,762 --> 00:57:27,195
[Andrews] Push her back!
684
00:57:27,264 --> 00:57:28,925
[Andrews] Push her back!
685
00:57:49,852 --> 00:57:52,184
Aren't we gonna stop and see the fun, sir?
686
00:57:52,254 --> 00:57:57,783
All I want to see is the first bridge over
the Chicamauga going up in flames.
687
00:58:12,541 --> 00:58:14,338
Reverse! Reverse!
688
00:58:31,627 --> 00:58:32,958
Come on!
689
00:58:51,713 --> 00:58:55,774
Tell Pete Bracken we'll do another
flying switch at the first siding.
690
00:58:58,620 --> 00:59:01,817
[train bells]
691
00:59:07,228 --> 00:59:09,287
Dalton. Way ahead of time.
692
00:59:09,364 --> 00:59:11,491
We gotta take on wood and water.
693
00:59:11,566 --> 00:59:13,966
Not here.
Stop at the first tank beyond town.
694
00:59:39,227 --> 00:59:42,526
- Watch my Sunday suit!
- Been raining up here.
695
00:59:42,597 --> 00:59:44,462
Might've been, but it's cleared up nice.
696
00:59:44,532 --> 00:59:46,329
- Shall we rip up track?
- Nope.
697
00:59:46,401 --> 00:59:47,993
Let's get a wood line going.
698
00:59:48,069 --> 00:59:49,400
Mr. Scott?
699
01:00:06,486 --> 01:00:10,820
[telegraph operator] "My train was captured
by Federal spies making for Chattanooga,
700
01:00:10,891 --> 01:00:14,622
"possibly hoping to burn
the bridges behind them.
701
01:00:14,695 --> 01:00:18,495
"If I do not capture them, try to head
them off. Signed, William A. Fuller."
702
01:00:18,565 --> 01:00:21,159
So that's why Mitchell hasn't attacked me!
703
01:00:21,235 --> 01:00:25,399
He wants to be sure those bridges are out.
Acknowledge and send this message back.
704
01:00:25,472 --> 01:00:30,535
"Direct to Dalton operator to call Colonel
Allen's regiment to engage the Yankees."
705
01:00:30,611 --> 01:00:32,374
The line to Dalton's gone dead!
706
01:00:32,446 --> 01:00:36,974
Then call Ringgold, and tell him to send
cavalry down the track to cut them off.
707
01:00:38,252 --> 01:00:40,379
They're more than half water-logged.
708
01:00:40,454 --> 01:00:42,513
Probably those bridges are, too.
709
01:00:42,923 --> 01:00:47,451
[train whistle]
710
01:00:47,527 --> 01:00:50,724
Back on board, boys!
Uncouple that last car.
711
01:00:51,665 --> 01:00:53,724
- Think it'll stop 'em?
- No, but it'll slow 'em down.
712
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:55,597
We'll stop them further up the track.
713
01:00:57,738 --> 01:00:59,729
[Andrews] Wilson! Hop on.
714
01:01:14,020 --> 01:01:16,011
This is no time to think about food!
715
01:01:16,088 --> 01:01:19,421
I'm not! I'm thinking of a hot, quick fire
to help that wet wood!
716
01:01:48,321 --> 01:01:50,118
[Andrews] Bring it around.
717
01:01:59,365 --> 01:02:02,425
This oughta be a good place.
718
01:02:02,501 --> 01:02:06,403
Watch your fingers.
Dig it out a little bit in here.
719
01:02:06,939 --> 01:02:10,466
[train whistle]
720
01:02:11,544 --> 01:02:13,273
Run at half speed.
721
01:02:14,213 --> 01:02:16,875
This time, we're gonna see what happens.
722
01:02:30,295 --> 01:02:32,661
- Reverse!
- Reverse!
723
01:02:53,017 --> 01:02:54,951
Won't anything stop that train?
724
01:02:55,019 --> 01:02:56,884
We will.
725
01:03:06,398 --> 01:03:08,730
How long is that tunnel?
726
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:10,791
Through the top of the hill.
727
01:03:12,804 --> 01:03:15,671
Mr. Andrews, we want to stop
and have it out with them.
728
01:03:15,740 --> 01:03:17,332
That's right.
729
01:03:17,409 --> 01:03:19,969
- We can ambush them inside that tunnel.
- How?
730
01:03:20,044 --> 01:03:24,640
- Send this boxcar back to smash into 'em.
- They might just push it out again.
731
01:03:24,716 --> 01:03:28,152
Then reverse our engine
and send it back, too. How about it?
732
01:03:30,221 --> 01:03:32,189
Well, how about it?
733
01:03:36,628 --> 01:03:38,960
- What are we slowing for?
- I ordered them to stop.
734
01:03:39,030 --> 01:03:41,294
We don't want to go in there blind.
735
01:03:41,366 --> 01:03:43,163
And give the Yankees time
to burn a bridge?
736
01:03:43,234 --> 01:03:45,498
They're not burning any bridge,
they're tearing up track.
737
01:03:45,570 --> 01:03:50,200
- They won't have time if we crowd 'em.
- Throwing our lives away won't help.
738
01:03:50,275 --> 01:03:53,335
You boys jump off.
Get down, Pete, I'll take her.
739
01:03:54,245 --> 01:03:56,577
I'll fire for you, Mr. Fuller.
740
01:04:01,719 --> 01:04:05,917
Open her up, Pete. If we're going to glory,
we may as well go a'kiting.
741
01:04:32,917 --> 01:04:36,045
It's time the army showed
the Secret Service how to fight.
742
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:38,054
I'm gonna stop this train.
743
01:04:38,122 --> 01:04:39,384
Campbell...
744
01:04:40,558 --> 01:04:44,551
Nobody stops this train until we reach
the first Chicamagua bridge.
745
01:04:47,832 --> 01:04:52,768
I know it's hard on you men.
I've been tempted to stop, too.
746
01:04:52,836 --> 01:04:56,704
But we can't risk any encounter
that might lose us our engine.
747
01:04:56,773 --> 01:05:01,506
Even after we burn the bridges, we've got
to get through to Mitchell and let him know.
748
01:05:02,679 --> 01:05:05,113
You needn't worry about us, Mr. Andrews.
749
01:05:06,116 --> 01:05:08,107
Any of us.
750
01:05:19,596 --> 01:05:22,394
If we don't wood up soon,
we won't go much farther.
751
01:05:22,466 --> 01:05:26,334
Once we set the first bridge afire,
we'll have plenty of time to hunt for wood.
752
01:05:30,574 --> 01:05:32,735
Any of that coal-oil left?
753
01:05:34,544 --> 01:05:36,341
Just a slosh.
754
01:05:36,413 --> 01:05:38,608
Take it back to the boxcar.
755
01:05:51,762 --> 01:05:53,957
Back in the tender, men.
756
01:06:36,705 --> 01:06:38,502
Go ahead!
757
01:07:00,963 --> 01:07:03,659
[train whistle]
758
01:07:31,860 --> 01:07:34,158
Back up! Try her again!
759
01:07:37,398 --> 01:07:39,263
They set the brake!
760
01:08:07,161 --> 01:08:08,890
Push her out!
761
01:08:44,264 --> 01:08:46,789
There's gotta be wood somewhere.
762
01:08:46,867 --> 01:08:50,132
There's a wood station just
this side of Ringgold.
763
01:08:50,203 --> 01:08:52,194
Knight!
764
01:08:52,272 --> 01:08:55,207
- Can you get another mile out of her?
- I don't know.
765
01:08:59,947 --> 01:09:01,938
She's all right.
766
01:09:09,089 --> 01:09:10,750
Hey, Bracken!
767
01:09:10,824 --> 01:09:12,291
Come on, Pete!
768
01:09:22,669 --> 01:09:24,864
Let's go!
769
01:09:24,938 --> 01:09:28,271
There's only one thing for it.
We'll have to get out and push.
770
01:09:32,445 --> 01:09:36,939
I'm so used to seeing train smoke behind,
I thought she was chasing us again!
771
01:09:38,384 --> 01:09:40,511
That's just the smoke from the bridge.
772
01:09:40,586 --> 01:09:43,383
I know, but I thought I saw it move.
773
01:09:43,455 --> 01:09:46,322
It is moving! Pittenger, look!
It is moving!
774
01:09:46,391 --> 01:09:48,859
Yeah, you're very funny, you two.
775
01:09:50,128 --> 01:09:52,119
It's no joke.
776
01:09:55,734 --> 01:09:58,134
All right, you've been spoiling
for a fight.
777
01:09:58,203 --> 01:10:00,262
You might as well have it now.
778
01:10:00,339 --> 01:10:03,069
Jump down and get a barricade
across the track.
779
01:10:12,951 --> 01:10:17,479
Try to coax her around the bend.
It'll look better if they don't see her.
780
01:10:27,265 --> 01:10:31,258
[train whistle]
781
01:10:33,705 --> 01:10:37,835
[whoops and hoof beats]
782
01:10:37,909 --> 01:10:39,274
Cavalry!
783
01:10:40,045 --> 01:10:44,243
That settles it.
Scatter and make for the woods, boys.
784
01:10:44,316 --> 01:10:46,307
Get home the best way you can.
785
01:11:31,829 --> 01:11:35,822
[Pittenger] So, we left the field to the
victors, whoever they might be.
786
01:11:35,900 --> 01:11:39,563
We couldn't have guessed all our plans
were wrecked by the fantastic courage
787
01:11:39,637 --> 01:11:41,901
and determination of one man:
788
01:11:41,972 --> 01:11:45,703
The mild-mannered conductor,
William A. Fuller.
789
01:11:45,776 --> 01:11:50,839
The great locomotive chase was over,
but our troubles were just beginning.
790
01:11:50,915 --> 01:11:54,009
For a week, the country below
Chattanooga was in an uproar,
791
01:11:54,085 --> 01:11:59,318
with soldiers and citizens beating the
backwoods to find the "engine thieves. "
792
01:11:59,390 --> 01:12:02,587
I was taken, along with many other
suspicious characters,
793
01:12:02,660 --> 01:12:07,029
to Chattanooga to be questioned at the
headquarters of General Ledbetter.
794
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:14,000
When it came my turn, I represented
myself as a Southern sympathizer,
795
01:12:14,070 --> 01:12:16,197
ready to join their army.
796
01:12:19,609 --> 01:12:21,600
Another recruit, General.
797
01:12:21,678 --> 01:12:24,738
A Mr. Pittenger
from Flemingsburg, Kentucky.
798
01:12:24,814 --> 01:12:29,012
- Where'd they find him?
- Wandering the hills above Lafayette.
799
01:12:29,085 --> 01:12:30,814
What were you doing there?
800
01:12:30,887 --> 01:12:32,684
I was on my way to Camp MacDonald.
801
01:12:32,755 --> 01:12:36,213
- Oh, a conscript?
- No, sir, a volunteer.
802
01:12:36,292 --> 01:12:38,283
Why don't you join us?
803
01:12:39,295 --> 01:12:41,695
- I'd be proud to, sir.
- Good.
804
01:12:41,764 --> 01:12:45,165
I think we have just the place
for a smart young lad like you.
805
01:12:45,235 --> 01:12:47,726
- Take care of him, Fletcher.
- Yes, sir.
806
01:13:10,593 --> 01:13:13,653
Did you ever see any of these men before?
807
01:13:14,664 --> 01:13:15,858
No.
808
01:13:15,932 --> 01:13:18,799
That's strange, mighty strange.
809
01:13:18,868 --> 01:13:22,325
Every last one of them's
from Flemingsburg, Kentucky.
810
01:13:26,808 --> 01:13:29,743
[Pittenger] Our suffering in prison
would've been easier to bear
811
01:13:29,811 --> 01:13:32,279
had we not thought our raid a failure.
812
01:13:32,347 --> 01:13:36,408
We could not know that the Southern
newspapers, praising Fuller's bravery,
813
01:13:36,485 --> 01:13:39,545
were amazed and alarmed that
a handful of Yankee soldiers
814
01:13:39,621 --> 01:13:42,886
had almost wrecked the Confederacy.
815
01:13:43,091 --> 01:13:45,355
Full 50 times our number
had to be diverted
816
01:13:45,427 --> 01:13:49,557
from Confederate battle lines
for guarding their railroads and bridges.
817
01:13:49,631 --> 01:13:54,295
All we knew was that official orders
transferred us from jail to jail...
818
01:13:54,369 --> 01:13:57,031
Chattanooga, Madison, Knoxville.
819
01:13:58,440 --> 01:14:01,432
Now we were being moved again.
820
01:14:12,588 --> 01:14:14,920
Where are you taking 'em, Major?
821
01:14:14,990 --> 01:14:16,116
Atlanta.
822
01:14:16,191 --> 01:14:18,386
Why not just hang 'em up in Chattanooga?
823
01:14:18,460 --> 01:14:21,190
Gotta have a court-martial trial
for them first.
824
01:14:21,263 --> 01:14:23,561
Ain't there no lawyers in Chattanooga?
825
01:14:23,632 --> 01:14:27,762
- I have orders from Richmond.
- No offense, Major.
826
01:14:36,277 --> 01:14:38,006
Mr. Fuller?
827
01:14:38,879 --> 01:14:41,541
May I have a word with you?
828
01:14:41,616 --> 01:14:44,483
You had a word with me, going north.
829
01:14:45,620 --> 01:14:47,679
You're going south now.
830
01:14:59,233 --> 01:15:02,691
[mumbling]
831
01:15:08,109 --> 01:15:11,567
- No talking in the yard.
- How many Yanks can you lick today?
832
01:15:12,446 --> 01:15:15,711
Any more trouble out of you,
we put you down the hole.
833
01:15:25,293 --> 01:15:28,785
- Captain, assemble your prisoners.
- Line them up, Corporal.
834
01:15:28,863 --> 01:15:29,887
[Corporal] Line 'em up.
835
01:15:29,964 --> 01:15:32,524
Got to read them the sentence
of the court-martial.
836
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:35,000
- What's the verdict?
- Guilty. All of them.
837
01:15:35,069 --> 01:15:37,560
I heard they were
just hanging the ringleader.
838
01:15:37,638 --> 01:15:40,607
So did I, but the orders
from Richmond said different.
839
01:15:40,675 --> 01:15:43,542
"Hang every last one of them,
on or before the 15th."
840
01:15:51,284 --> 01:15:55,687
[prisoners]♪ Roll, Jordan, roll ♪
841
01:15:55,755 --> 01:16:00,317
♪ Roll, Jordan, roll ♪
842
01:16:00,393 --> 01:16:06,855
♪ I want to go to heaven
When I die ♪
843
01:16:06,933 --> 01:16:11,427
♪ For to hear old Jordan roll ♪
844
01:16:12,505 --> 01:16:16,999
♪ Roll, Jordan, roll ♪
845
01:16:18,178 --> 01:16:21,670
Why not go ask the captain of the guard
to lend you his master key?
846
01:16:21,748 --> 01:16:23,682
Then you'd have something to go by.
847
01:16:23,750 --> 01:16:28,016
♪ I want to go to heaven
When I die ♪
848
01:16:28,088 --> 01:16:32,457
♪ For to hear old Jordan roll ♪
849
01:16:35,195 --> 01:16:37,322
- Hey, boys!
- Sir?
850
01:16:37,397 --> 01:16:39,558
[guard] Give us Tenting Tonight.
851
01:16:41,601 --> 01:16:46,470
♪ We're tenting tonight
On the old camp ground ♪
852
01:16:47,340 --> 01:16:50,673
♪ Give us a song to cheer?
853
01:16:51,678 --> 01:16:56,615
♪ Our weary hearts a song of hope ♪
854
01:16:56,683 --> 01:17:00,414
♪ And friends we love so dear?
855
01:17:01,854 --> 01:17:06,951
♪ Many are the hearts
That are weary tonight ♪
856
01:17:07,026 --> 01:17:10,257
♪ Wishing for the war to cease ♪
857
01:17:11,430 --> 01:17:14,263
♪ - Many are the hearts... ♪
- Look!
858
01:17:14,333 --> 01:17:15,925
Look what Knight...
859
01:17:19,171 --> 01:17:22,834
What's going on in there?
Why'd you stop singing?
860
01:17:22,908 --> 01:17:25,240
Why don't you give us the rest of it?
861
01:17:26,345 --> 01:17:30,509
♪ Many are the hearts
That are weary tonight ♪
862
01:17:30,582 --> 01:17:34,450
♪ Wishing for the war to cease ♪
863
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:38,320
♪ Many are the hearts
Looking for the right ♪
864
01:17:38,390 --> 01:17:42,349
♪ To see the dawn of peace ♪
865
01:17:42,428 --> 01:17:46,728
♪ Tenting tonight
Tenting tonight ♪
866
01:17:46,799 --> 01:17:49,791
♪ Tenting on the old camp ground ♪
867
01:17:51,070 --> 01:17:53,470
[snoring]
868
01:17:59,812 --> 01:18:01,541
[Andrews] So far, so good.
869
01:18:01,613 --> 01:18:03,638
Knight, you give me the key.
870
01:18:03,715 --> 01:18:07,207
Tomorrow when the guards herd us inside
after our breathing time in the yard,
871
01:18:07,286 --> 01:18:10,346
I'll slip under Mr. Turner's bed
and hide there until dark.
872
01:18:10,422 --> 01:18:13,152
When I'm sure he's asleep,
I'll tie him up and gag him,
873
01:18:13,225 --> 01:18:15,658
steal his cell keys and unlock the doors.
874
01:18:15,726 --> 01:18:19,753
Then we creep past the guards,
climb the wall and run for the woods.
875
01:18:19,831 --> 01:18:21,458
[Pittenger] No.
876
01:18:21,532 --> 01:18:23,591
We won't do it that way.
877
01:18:27,138 --> 01:18:30,505
Mr. Andrews,
you keep forgetting we're soldiers.
878
01:18:30,575 --> 01:18:33,840
We trained together, and we know
how to fight together.
879
01:18:34,045 --> 01:18:36,240
We'd rather fight than scheme.
880
01:18:36,314 --> 01:18:38,441
Now you're talking like a man.
881
01:18:38,516 --> 01:18:41,508
If we try to sneak out one by one,
only the first will get away.
882
01:18:41,586 --> 01:18:43,850
- The rest'll be cornered.
- That's right.
883
01:18:43,921 --> 01:18:45,183
How would you go at it?
884
01:18:45,256 --> 01:18:49,454
I'd wait until around suppertime, when
it's light enough to see what we're doing.
885
01:18:49,527 --> 01:18:53,190
I'd grab Mr. Turner, take his keys,
and rush the guards outside in a body.
886
01:18:53,264 --> 01:18:56,495
It'll be sudden. Bare hands against
muskets, they won't expect.
887
01:18:56,567 --> 01:18:58,762
- Good!
- It's all right!
888
01:18:59,770 --> 01:19:02,170
What do you think, Mr. Andrews?
889
01:19:04,342 --> 01:19:07,209
Yes, it's a good plan.
890
01:19:07,278 --> 01:19:09,940
Go ahead, Pittenger.
Assign us our positions.
891
01:19:10,014 --> 01:19:14,348
I think Buff um and I look the least
dangerous, so we'll take care of Mr. Turner.
892
01:19:14,418 --> 01:19:16,818
We'll want the biggest men
to rush the guards.
893
01:19:20,024 --> 01:19:22,015
Campbell, you're the first.
894
01:19:26,564 --> 01:19:28,554
Then Ross, I guess.
895
01:19:59,463 --> 01:20:01,727
Through with them bread tins, boys?
896
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:07,193
Boys, I'm sorry about the hangin'.
897
01:20:07,270 --> 01:20:10,728
That's all right, Mr. Turner.
We've all got to go sometime.
898
01:20:10,807 --> 01:20:15,870
Would you be good enough to ask the
captain of the guard to fix my chain?
899
01:20:15,946 --> 01:20:17,072
Why...!
900
01:20:39,970 --> 01:20:44,906
- Corporal, post your guard.
- MacDonald and Irvine, south post.
901
01:20:54,250 --> 01:20:55,239
Get back!
902
01:20:56,852 --> 01:20:58,342
Guards!
903
01:21:33,422 --> 01:21:35,322
[gunshot]
904
01:21:35,391 --> 01:21:36,824
Get back in!
905
01:21:37,893 --> 01:21:39,383
Try the wall!
906
01:21:43,632 --> 01:21:44,758
Guards!
907
01:21:45,334 --> 01:21:47,859
Tall ones help the others over the wall.
908
01:21:53,309 --> 01:21:58,177
Outside! They're climbing the walls!
Head 'em off outside!
909
01:22:02,750 --> 01:22:04,149
Around back!
910
01:22:16,397 --> 01:22:18,365
Come on! Get over!
911
01:22:30,311 --> 01:22:31,903
Go on! Go!
912
01:23:07,748 --> 01:23:10,410
[gunshots]
913
01:23:28,735 --> 01:23:31,135
- Is that all you caught?
- So far.
914
01:23:31,939 --> 01:23:34,464
I got the two big ones upstairs.
915
01:23:38,545 --> 01:23:41,742
You needn't have come back to help me.
916
01:23:41,815 --> 01:23:43,806
I didn't.
917
01:23:45,218 --> 01:23:48,153
I had to see how many of 'em
it'd take to lay me out.
918
01:23:49,556 --> 01:23:52,616
You mean, you'd hang for that?
919
01:23:53,293 --> 01:23:56,785
Yeah. Any day in the week.
920
01:23:59,232 --> 01:24:01,632
You shouldn't hate them that much.
921
01:24:01,702 --> 01:24:05,570
I don't. Not anymore.
922
01:24:05,639 --> 01:24:09,837
I thought they was a bag of wind,
but they ain't.
923
01:24:10,844 --> 01:24:13,244
They done all right.
924
01:24:14,381 --> 01:24:16,576
You done all right, too.
925
01:24:16,650 --> 01:24:18,584
You really showed 'em.
926
01:24:20,187 --> 01:24:23,383
There's one more thing
we're gonna have to show 'em.
927
01:24:23,456 --> 01:24:25,447
What's that?
928
01:24:26,125 --> 01:24:29,185
That we know how to die.
929
01:24:37,970 --> 01:24:39,631
Mr. Fuller?
930
01:24:40,205 --> 01:24:41,695
Well, Reverend Scott!
931
01:24:41,774 --> 01:24:44,140
'Morning, sir.
You riding with us today?
932
01:24:44,209 --> 01:24:47,667
No, I've been to the jail,
praying with the condemned prisoners.
933
01:24:47,746 --> 01:24:51,238
One of them, a Mr. Andrews,
asked to see you.
934
01:24:52,951 --> 01:24:55,146
I gave him my promise you'd come.
935
01:24:55,220 --> 01:24:59,589
He had a fair trial, and I gave
all my testimony to the court.
936
01:24:59,658 --> 01:25:04,095
Anything further I might have to say to him
would be of small comfort to him now.
937
01:25:07,299 --> 01:25:08,789
Mr. Andrews?
938
01:25:24,216 --> 01:25:26,377
Thank you for coming.
939
01:25:26,452 --> 01:25:32,857
Mr. Fuller, I wanted you to know
I'm sorry I had to deceive you.
940
01:25:34,192 --> 01:25:36,183
I guess you'll be paying for it.
941
01:25:36,260 --> 01:25:39,252
Yes. I'm gonna hang.
942
01:25:39,330 --> 01:25:42,128
I wasn't talking about that.
943
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:45,658
You whipped me fair and square,
944
01:25:45,737 --> 01:25:50,902
but now that it's all over,
I hoped you wouldn't hold a grudge.
945
01:25:50,975 --> 01:25:55,912
I haven't much use for a man who poses
as a loyal Southerner, and isn't.
946
01:25:55,980 --> 01:25:58,813
I was fighting for my convictions.
947
01:25:58,883 --> 01:26:01,579
My only weapons were the lies
a spy must tell.
948
01:26:02,587 --> 01:26:05,181
You fought in your way;
I fought in mine.
949
01:26:08,126 --> 01:26:13,223
Some day the fighting will be over,
and both sides will have to shake hands.
950
01:26:13,297 --> 01:26:16,232
I won't be alive to see that day.
951
01:26:17,235 --> 01:26:19,829
Couldn't we do it now?
952
01:26:25,777 --> 01:26:29,543
I'd be glad if you would, sir.
953
01:26:42,727 --> 01:26:45,321
Your leader was a most unusual man;
954
01:26:45,396 --> 01:26:47,727
resourceful, brave and true.
955
01:26:47,798 --> 01:26:50,631
So were your comrades
who perished with him.
956
01:26:50,700 --> 01:26:53,464
As soldiers, they will receive,
posthumously,
957
01:26:53,537 --> 01:26:55,767
the same award you are wearing now.
958
01:26:55,839 --> 01:26:59,434
Though the Congressional order
must exclude Mr. Andrews himself,
959
01:26:59,509 --> 01:27:03,343
as a civilian, he will receive
an even higher decoration;
960
01:27:03,413 --> 01:27:06,143
the commendation of history.
961
01:27:06,216 --> 01:27:08,548
Because you dared and suffered with him,
962
01:27:08,618 --> 01:27:12,019
I know he would be as proud
to have his men receive this honor
963
01:27:12,088 --> 01:27:15,216
as we are to bestow it.
964
01:27:15,292 --> 01:27:17,419
That means a great deal to us, sir.
965
01:27:17,494 --> 01:27:19,485
Thank you.
76505
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