Free State of Jones Page #3

Hmm.

We expensive.

How come they

hounding you?

'Cause I left.

Deserted.

How come?

It ain't my fight,

you know?

Don't own no slaves.

Ain't gonna die so they can

get rich selling cotton.

That's

why we left, too.

"Man, can,

pan, fan, ran."

Very good, girls.

"Mat, hat, sat, cat, rat."

Now read this line again.

"Mat, hat,

sat, cat, rat."

What are you doing?

Oh... I was just...

Don't go.

Thank you.

Ain't they got

a chicken Coop?

Y'all ought to be grateful.

I can take back that molasses.

He didn't mean it.

Molasses? I thought this was whiskey.

Don't you get dizzy?

Lying like that?

Don't it make you dizzy?

Oh. No.

It don't bother me now.

I guess you can get

used to anything.

No, you can't.

Where's Texas?

Hmm?

Texas. How far is that?

Texas?

Well, it's pretty far.

Why? What's in Texas?

My wife and my little boy.

When they...

When they sold 'em,

I just... l just ran.

I didn't think or nothing.

I just... just took off.

And they caught me

and whipped me,

I just ran all over again.

Then they put this on me.

Don't make no

difference though.

They can hitch me to a wagon

and I'll pull that damn thing

all the way to Texas.

All right, look here, I was a blacksmith.

I was. I shoed horses.

Forged all kinda stuff,

yokes, bits, ax blades.

I pounded a lot of

metal in my life.

If you want, I can get

that thing off you.

No, you can't do that.

All that bangin' will bring

the hounds for sure.

How many hounds?

And the men that

go along with them.

How many men?

You ready?

I'm ready.

You ready?

I'm ready.

Oh, yeah.

All right, everybody

in half cock?

Eli?

Malachi?

Now you ain't gonna

have a chance to reload,

so make your shot count.

All right, here they come.

Go to full cock.

Wait for my word.

Come on!

Come on.

Come on.

Now!

You know what

this tastes like?

What?

Dog.

Hmm.

Hmm.

What's with them?

Uh...

Just, nobody done nothing

like that for them before.

What's that say?

Right there,

what's that say?

It says "Remington company,

llion, New York."

Remington.

"Ri-ill

"e-m...

H' ii

left hand here, okay.

You feel it?

Put your left leg out,

get braced for it.

All right,

sit right in there,

you're gonna look

right down this barrel.

You see that little

beebee on the end?

Yeah.

Ah.

Whatever's at the end

of this beebee,

that's what you're aiming at.

That's what you're gonna hit.

All right?

All right.

You're locked and loaded.

Whenever you're ready,

get him.

Did you get him?

Get him again.

Jasper, it's all right.

Come on out now.

You ain't the only one.

Will?

Whoa.

Ah-ah-ah.

Raise your hand.

That stuff

don't belong to you.

Unhitch that wagon

and head off down the road.

Who are you?

"The free men

of Jones county"?

That's what he said.

Well, I'm not gonna

concern myself

with five or six deserters

hidin' out in the swamp

who don't have the courage

to show their face.

Sir...

You've got a quota to meet.

You're dismissed.

What do you say, sumrall?

Well, there will be no more

dry firing for you.

- That will do the job.

- Well, thanks.

That's good, son.

Are you Newton knight?

Every day.

Where are you from, boy?

Ellisville.

And where were you?

Battle of corinth.

Me, too.

My brother said you

made him a private.

Did I?

Can I be

a private, too?

I don't know.

Is he older or

younger than you?

He's younger.

He's only 13.

I'll tell you what,

you can be a corporal.

That's better

than a private.

Really?

At ease, corporal.

Brought you somethin'.

You got one.

Yeah.

Fl. Hgt?

Fight.

"Fight."

Fight.

"Fight."

Fight. Sounds like

a f-y-t-e. Fight.

Fight.

Fight. Fight.

But you got

a "g" right there.

Mmm-hmm. But it's

a silent "g" again.

The "g-h" is always

like silent, like here,

"light, right."

"Light, right."

"All right, slight."

""All right, slight."

Uh, but it's a "g-h"

and it's silent

when you use the

what a man grows

with his own two hands

oughta belong to him, yeah?

Yes, sir.

How's that scripture go,

Jasper?

This here's from

the book of galatians.

"Be not deceived.

"God is not mocked,

for whatsoever a man soweth,

"that shall he also reap."

What you sow,

you should reap.

What you put in the ground,

you should take

outta the ground.

Crowd'. Yeah. And they

say they takin' 10%.

No, they leave us 10%, sir.

Leave 10%.

You think they takin' 10%

from that plantation

owner over in natchez?

- Huh?

- No, sir!

You think they're

takin' 10% from him?

No way.

How 'bout this?

What you say we go out there

and we pick it clean?

There's 100 of us here.

We could pick it clean

all in one day.

- Can we do that?

- Yeah!

Now, we pick it clean.

We hide it away,

we divide it amongst

ourselves later on.

Meanwhile, by the time

they get down here,

we done scattered.

Yeah.

- How's that sound to you?

- Yeah!

Whose corn is it?

I mean, whose corn is it?

It's our corn!

Whose corn is it?

Sounds like perfect

charity to me.

Let's do it!

Yeah.

Find a red cob, get a

shot o' corn whiskey!

Where is your corn?

Huh?

Your corn!

Where's your corn?

Field's picked clean.

Oh, yeah. We picked it.

So where is it?

Good mornin'!

Step on down, lieutenant.

Hold on, all right?

Just hold on.

Hey, I know you.

Yeah, you the one who stole

our corn and our mule.

Gentlemen...

There it is.

You like that sound?

It's just some corn.

Yeah.

You'd kill a man

for some corn?

Well, he's askin' if I'd

kill a man for some corn.

I don't know.

See, lieutenant,

you steal our corn,

we got nothin'

to feed the hogs.

If we can't feed the hogs, we got

nothin' to put in the smokehouse.

We got nothin' to put

in the smokehouse,

we starve in the winter.

That's murder, ain't it?

You know what the penalty for

murder is, don't you, lieutenant?

Yeah.

Hmm?

Yes, sir.

Yeah, you do.

- Thomas.

- Yes, sir.

Come here.

What rank I make you?

Corporal, sir.

You're a lieutenant now.

Let's get that coat off.

- Help him out, Thomas.

- Yeah!

200 men.

Maybe 100. It's hard to say.

They made us lie facedown

in the dirt till they left.

What is that?

Give it here.

Newt, you sure

this is a good idea?

That's a lot of smoke.

Yeah.

Cavalry can't get

into those swamps,

and if we go in on foot,

we'll get ambushed.

So you're scared of 'em?

Only in there.

Oh!

Oh!

Why, hell, I'll stomp

it out with you.

Get a box up here.

Come on, throw

a box up on here.

Put those stakes

right down here, boys.

Right here, right here.

There we go!

Get you a handkerchief.

I got plenty for

everybody, now.

That fat, now that's where

all the flavor is,

right there in that fat.

Who wants that?

Look right here.

It's fallin'

right off the bone.

You don't even need

those knives.

What you doin', n*gger?

That ain't for you.

Put it back.

Put it back, n*gger!

How you ain't?

What?

I said, how you ain't?

How I ain't what?

What he says, ward,

is how you ain't a n*gger?

I mean, they just

pick cotton for 'em.

You...

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