Gettysburg Page #19

Mama's favorite. Let's go.

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Lawrence, what's happening?

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ESTABROOK:
Sir, Corporal Estabrook

reporting back, sir.

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Brook, I thought you were on sick call.

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ESTABROOK:
Yes, sir.

-How are you now?

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ESTABROOK:
It's my stomach.

I've been vomiting.

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It's something you ate.

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-Finish up. We're about to move out.

-Yes, sir.

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VINCENT:
Col. Chamberlain.

LAWRENCE:
Col. Vincent.

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Form your men.

Follow me and prepare to double-quick.

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We're going to the top of that hill,

right there.

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LAWRENCE:
Hear that?

CLARK:
Yes. I'll set it up.

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The rebels are stacking up

on our left flank.

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And we've got to follow them.

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VINCENT:
Make haste.

LAWRENCE:
Yes.

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CLARK:

Sound the assembly!

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[BUGLE CALLING]

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Follow me.

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[DRUM BEATING]

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OFFICER:

Powder in! Load!

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HOOD:

General.

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Look here,

the ground is strewn with boulders.

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The soldiers up there are entrenched

all over the ground.

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And there are guns in the rocks.

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Every move I make is observed.

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If I attack as ordered,

I lose half my division.

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And they'll be looking down our throats

at us from that hill right there.

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We must move around to the right, sir.

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-And take them from the rear.

-Sam...

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...the commanding general will not allow

a flanking movement around those hills.

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I argued it yesterday.

I argued it all morning.

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I've been arguing against

any attack at all.

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I can't call this one off. You know it.

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Let me move up the big round hill

to the south.

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Nobody is on that.

If I could get a battery up there--

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LONGSTREET:

There ain't enough time.

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You'd have to cut down trees

to place your artillery.

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It would be dark

before you were in action.

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One the other hand,

if they get batteries up there...

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...we'll need buckets to catch the lead.

You've got to take that hill.

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They don't even need guns to defend that.

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All they need to do

is roll rocks down on you.

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Just take it.

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General, I do this under protest.

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LONGSTREET:

Sam, you are the best I got.

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Now, sir, if you are ready,

why don't you take that hill?

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Hyah!

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VINCENT:

They're overshooting again.

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Hey, fellows, you notice how

that reb artillery always overshoots?

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LAWRENCE:
Tom?

TOM:
Yes, sir.

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LAWRENCE:
Another one closer

and it could be hard day for Mother.

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Go back to the rear.

Watch out for stragglers.

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Keep your distance from me.

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TOM:

Lawrence, I don't....

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[SOLDIERS YELLING INDISTINCTLY]

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[CANNONS FIRING]

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The whole damn reb army is down there...

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...and coming up around our flanks.

They could be here any minute.

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We've got to hold this place.

We've got to hold it.

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Well, all right. I place you here.

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Put your colors here, and set

your regiment to the left of this line.

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The rest of the brigade

will form on your right. Understood?

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-Yes. Ellis, this is the point.

-Sir.

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Your regiment is to the left of this point.

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-Colonel, sir. You're the end of the line.

-Yes.

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You're the extreme left of the Union army.

Understood?

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The line runs from here

back to Cemetery Hill...

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-...but it ends here.

-Understood.

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You can't withdraw under any condition.

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If you go, this line will be flanked.

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If you go, the enemy will sweep up

over the hillside...

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...and take this entire army from the rear.

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-You must defend this place to the last.

-Yes, sir.

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Now we'll see how professors fight.

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Ellis, position the regiment.

All company commanders here.

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Yes, sir.

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SPEAR:

Sharpshooters to the left!

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Battalion on the right!

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Now file into line. March.

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[SOLDIERS YELLING]

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[CANNONS FIRING]

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Bugler, sound the officer's call.

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[BUGLE BLOWING]

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LAWRENCE [IN VOICE-OVER]:

"Hold to the last." To the last what?

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Exercise in rhetoric.

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Last shell? Last man?

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Last foot of ground? Last reb?

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Advance!

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Move out!

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OFFICER:

Turn those guns around!

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Gentlemen, the 83rd Pennsylvania,

44th New York, and 16th Michigan...

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