Gettysburg Page #12

I'm Kilrain...

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...and I damn all gentlemen.

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There is only one aristocracy...

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...and that is right here.

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And that's why we've got to win this war.

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SOLDIER 1 :

Howdy.

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SOLDIER 2:

Howdy, general.

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PICKETT:
Hello, my boys.

Virginia has arrived!

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[BANJO PLAYING]

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PICKETT:
General Pickett presents

his compliments...

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...and asks to parlerwith

the commanding general, s'il vous @lat.

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[CHUCKLES]

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Hey, George.

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PICKETT:

General.

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Good Lord, what is that smell?

1005

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That's me. Ain't it lovely?

1006

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He got it off a dead Frenchman.

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-Good evening.

LONGSTREET:
Hey, Lo.

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PICKETT:
I did not get it off

a dead Frenchman.

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I bought it in a store

in Richmond with Sally.

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It did have a French name,

but Miss Corbert likes it.

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[LAUGHING]

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-How are you, general?

-Good, Jim, good. How are you?

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Real good.

1014

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Dick, how's it going?

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Fine, John, just fine.

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Good. Oh, listen, I am sorry to assign you

to old smelly George here...

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...but I hear tell you have

a strong stomach.

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General, I want you to know...

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...how much I appreciate this opportunity

to be back in action again, sir.

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Let it go, Dick. Let it go.

1021

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I consider it a damn fine piece of luck...

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...to have a man of your caliber

attached to this command. I do.

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Uh, general, sir.

Just exactly what do we have here?

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LONGSTREET:

Oh. Excuse me.

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Gentlemen? Colonel Fremantle?

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Allow me to introduce

Major General George Pickett.

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General Pickett,

Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Fremantle...

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...of Her Majesty's venerable

and elite Cold Stream Guards...

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...Britain's military attach

to the Confederacy...

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...and, you might say,

the eyes and ears of Queen Victoria.

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Hardly, sir. I'm merely an observer

and your humble guest.

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Sir...

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...the fame of your regiment

has preceded you.

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LONGSTREET:
General Pickett here

is our ranking strategist.

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The First Corps Army of Northern Virginia.

We refer all our deeper questions to him.

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They do. They do indeed.

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His record at West Point

is still the talk of both armies.

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You know I consider it unbecoming

to a soldier, all this book learning.

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-Book learning ain't for gentlemen, right?

-Nor that either.

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He graduated last in his class. Dead last.

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Quite a feat, considering his classmates.

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[LAUGHING]

1043

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The Yankees got all the smart ones.

Look where it's got them.

1044

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Colonel, allow me

to present my commanders.

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Each one of these chaps, as you might say,

commands a brigade of mine.

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Now this fellow here, this is Lo Armistead.

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Lo! That's short for Lothario.

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The lover.

1049

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This here is Richard Brooke Garnett.

You'll pardon his limp.

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He got kicked by his horse the other day.

1051

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That fellow there....

1052

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That's Jim Kemper.

1053

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You note the shifty eye,

the hand in the pocket.

1054

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He's not even a West Pointer,

so watch him.

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He's a politician from Virginia.

Jimmy's only here for the votes.

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KEMPER:
I was Speaker of the House

in Virginia.

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As a matter of fact, I d like to talk to you

about some political matters.

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You know the queen, don't you?

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What I need to know

and tell my folks back home is:

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When are you going to do something...

1061

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...about that damn Yankee blockade

out there on the water?

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Can you tell me something about that?

1063

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Time for some branch water. Come on.

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General? Sir.

1065

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Might I have a few words?

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Sure, George. Come on.

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I must confess I m rather curious

about General Longstreet.

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Up until tonight, he never seemed to

fraternize all that much.

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Almost dour, one would have

to suggest.

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Well, if I were you, colonel,

I'd count myself among the lucky.

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He just happens to be about the best

damn poker player in this here man's army.

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There was a time you'd have

to fight to keep him out of a game.

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Scarlet fever hit Richmond last winter,

right at Christmastime.

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General lost all three of his children

to it.

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The youngest was 10.

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Hasn't been quite the same since.

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-Um.... The queen.

-To the queen.

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