Gettysburg Page #11

897

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I'm deeply grateful to you, sir.

898

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TOM:

Hello, men.

899

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What outfit are you with?

900

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Archer's brigade, Heth's division.

901

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TOM:
Where you from?

PRISONER:
Tennessee.

902

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How about you?

903

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Maine.

904

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I've never been to Tennessee.

905

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I reckon I've never been to Maine neither.

906

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I don't mean no disrespect

to you fighting men...

907

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...but sometimes I can't help but figure,

why are you fighting this war?

908

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Why are you fighting it?

909

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To free the slaves, of course.

And to preserve the Union.

910

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I don't know about other folk,

but I ain't fighting for no darkies.

911

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I'm fighting for my rights.

912

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That's what we're all fighting for.

913

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-For your what?

-For our rights.

914

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Why can't you folks live

the way you want to live...

915

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...and let us live the way we do?

916

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"Live and let live," I hear some folks say.

917

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Be a mite less fuss and bother

if more folks took it to heart.

918

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Where'd you get captured?

919

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PRISONER:
Railroad cut

west of Gettysburg town.

920

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It wasn't a pretty sight.

921

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Many a good boy lost

a young and promising life.

922

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Some wore blue, some wore gray.

923

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Seen enough of this war?

924

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I guess I have.

925

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I guess I have too.

926

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It looks like

I'll be sitting out the rest of it.

927

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I appreciate you talking to me.

928

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See you in hell, Billy Yank.

929

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See you in hell, Johnny Reb.

930

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KILRAIN:

I have found a John Henry, sir.

931

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LAWRENCE:

John who?

932

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KILRAIN:
A John Henry, sir. A runaway.

I heard him a-groaning.

933

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Is he wounded?

934

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Don't know for sure.

935

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The man's exhausted.

936

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We'll get him something to eat.

The surgeon's on the way.

937

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-Did you get his name?

-He said something I couldn't understand.

938

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I can't understand anyone

south of Mason-Dixon.

939

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Rebs or darkies.

940

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All right, men, as you were.

Surgeon, see to him.

941

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LAWRENCE:
We had visitors

from the South before the war.

942

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They were always very polite, academic,

you understand.

943

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We stayed off the question of slavery

out of courtesy.

944

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But toward the end there was

no getting away from it...

945

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...and yet I could never understand.

I don't now.

946

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I don't know why.

947

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They fight so well.

948

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Tell me something, Buster...

949

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...what do you think of Negroes?

950

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Well, if you mean the race...

951

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...I don't really know.

952

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This is not a thing to be ashamed of.

953

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The thing is, you cannot judge a race.

954

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Any man who judges by the group

is a pea-wit.

955

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You take men one at a time.

956

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To me, there was never any difference.

957

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-None at all?

-None at all.

958

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Of course, I haven't known

that many freed men...

959

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...but those I knew in Bangor, Portland...

960

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...you look in the eye, there was a man.

961

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There was a "divine spark,"

as my mother used to call it.

962

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That's all there is to it.

963

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Races are men.

964

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"What a piece of work is man.

965

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How infinite in faculties,

in form and moving...

966

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...how eEpress and admirable.

967

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In action, how like an angel."

968

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Well, if he's an angel, all right then...

969

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...but he damn well must be a killer angel.

970

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Colonel, darling, you're a lovely man.

971

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I see a great vast difference between us,

yet I admire you, lad.

972

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You're an idealist, praise be.

973

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The truth is, colonel...

974

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...there is no "divine spark."

975

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There's many a man alive no more of value

than a dead dog. Believe me.

976

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When you've seen them hang each other

the way I have back in the Old Country.

977

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Equality?

978

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What I m fighting for is the right to prove

I'm a better man than many of them.

979

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Where have you seen this "divine spark"

in operation, colonel?

980

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Where have you noted

this magnificent equality?

981

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No two things on earth are equal

or have an equal chance.

982

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Not a leaf, not a tree.

983

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There's many a man worse than me

and some better...

984

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...but I don't think race or country

matters a damn.

985

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What matters, colonel...

986

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...is justice.

987

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Which is why I'm here.

988

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I'll be treated as I deserve...

989

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...not as my father deserved.

990

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