Gettysburg Page #18

I guess we Southerners and you English

have at least one thing in common.

1531

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We'd rather lose the war

than admit to the mistake.

1532

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We whupped you British twice

as I recollect.

1533

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[LAUGHING]

1534

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Your candor is admirable,

if somewhat eccentric.

1535

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A little eccentricity is good for a general.

1536

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We Southerners like our men religious

and a little bit mad.

1537

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I suspect that's why the women

fall in love with preachers.

1538

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If I may be so bold...

1539

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...what's to prevent the Yankees

from attacking us here?

1540

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I notice you haven't bothered

to entrench or build a fortified perimeter.

1541

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57:21,118 -- 01:57:23,953

Ohh. We were alert today.

1542

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But old George Meade ain't gonna

do us any favors.

1543

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What we must do is we must

make him attack us.

1544

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And in order to do that, we have to

occupy dangerous ground...

1545

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...between him and Washington.

1546

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Then-- Then the politicians will press him

to attack us.

1547

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Which he will most certainly do,

given time.

1548

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Oh, I see. Very clever. Very clever.

1549

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So Lee doesn't dig in...

1550

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...knowing with certainty

that Meade will not attack him here.

1551

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Meade will eEpect him to swing around

to the south...

1552

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...in an attempt to cut him off from

the capital, his supplies and reserves.

1553

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So while Meade ponders his own position,

for fear he'll be flanked...

1554

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...Lee will actually attack him here,

where he least suspects it.

1555

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Lulled as he is by his own

false feeling of security...

1556

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...derived by his holding the

seemingly superior topographical

battlefield position...

1557

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...in short, the higher ground.

1558

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Brilliant. Sheer military brilliance.

1559

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General Lee is the ultimate strategist,

a master deceiver.

1560

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Sir, it is exhilarating to be

upon this field.

1561

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Well, I will pass on...

1562

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...your complimentary sentiments

to the general.

1563

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Good morning, Colonel Freemantle.

1564

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[PRIEST SPEAKING IN LATIN]

1565

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ALL:

Amen.

1566

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LEE:

General Longstreet.

1567

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Do you mind if I accompany you?

1568

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Not at all. I'm very glad

to have you with us, sir.

1569

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The heat reminds me of Mexico.

1570

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Yes, but there it was very dry.

1571

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That was a good outfit.

1572

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I remember storming the ramparts

of Chapultapec with old George Pickett.

1573

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Reynolds.... My old friend,

Ulysses Sam Grant.

1574

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-There was some good men in that army.

-Yes, indeed.

1575

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Some of those men are waiting for us now

up ahead on those ridges.

1576

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I don't know. I sometimes feel troubled.

1577

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Those fellows, those boys in blue,

they never quite seem the enemy.

1578

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I know.

1579

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I used to command some of those boys.

Swore an oath too.

1580

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I couldn't fight against Georgia

and South Carolina.

1581

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Not against my own family.

1582

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No, sir. There was always a higher duty

to Virginia.

1583

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That was our first duty.

1584

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There was never any question about that.

1585

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-I guess so.

-Let us not think about that now.

1586

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The issue is in God's hands.

1587

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We can only do our duty.

1588

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General?

1589

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Soldiering has one great trap.

1590

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To be a good soldier

you must love the army.

1591

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To be a good commander,

you must be willing to order the death...

1592

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...of the thing you love.

1593

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We do not fear our own death, you and I.

1594

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But there comes a time....

1595

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We are never quite prepared

for so many to die.

1596

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We do eEpect the occasional empty chair.

A salute to fallen comrades...

1597

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...but this war goes on and on

and the men die...

1598

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...and the price gets ever higher.

1599

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We are prepared to lose some of us,

but we are never prepared to lose all of us.

1600

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And there is the great trap, general.

1601

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When you attack,

you must hold nothing back.

1602

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You must commit yourself totally.

1603

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We are adrift here in a sea of blood,

and I want it to end.

1604

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I want this to be the final battle.

1605

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I woke up this morning and I half thought

he'd be gone, George Meade.

1606

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That he would not want to fight here.

Yes, sir.

1607

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I woke up and I thought,

"Meade will be gone...

1608

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...and this war will go on and on and on."

1609

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Well, sir...

1610

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...we'll make him sorry he stayed.

1611

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God go with you, general.

1612

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And with you, general.

1613

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That's mostly to the south.

1614

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I thought the rebs were all in Gettysburg.

You don't suppose they're flanking again?

1615

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