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in front of the men.

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Because we're brothers,

it looks like favoritism.

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General Meade got his own son

as his aide-de-camp.

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That's different.

Generals can do anything.

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Nothing quite so much like God on earth

as a general on battlefield.

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What are you going to do with them?

Colonel, sir.

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You can't shoot them.

You never go back to Maine if you do.

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I know that.

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I wonder if they do.

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Colonel, sir. You know who this man is?

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Dan Burns, from Orono.

I know his daddy, the preacher.

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Best cusser I ever heard.

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Knows more fine swear words

than any man in Maine.

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LAWRENCE:

You men gather around.

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I've been talking with Private Bucklin.

He's told me about your problem.

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There's nothing I can do today.

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We're moving out in a few minutes.

We'll be moving all day.

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I've been ordered

to take you men with me.

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I'm told that...

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...if you don't come, I can shoot you.

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Well, you know I won't do that.

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Maybe somebody else will, but I won't.

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So that's that.

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Here's the, uh, situation.

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The whole reb army is up that road

a ways waiting for us.

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This is no time for an argument.

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I tell you,

we could surely use you fellows.

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We're now well below half strength.

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Whether you fight or not,

that's up to you.

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Whether you come along is....

Well, you're coming.

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You know who we are,

what we're doing here.

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If you fight alongside us,

there's a few things you must know.

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This regiment was formed

last summer in Maine.

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There were 1,000 of us then.

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There are less than 300 of us now.

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All of us volunteered to fight

for the Union, just as you did.

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Some came mainly because

we were bored at home.

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Thought this looked like it might be fun.

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Some came because

we were ashamed not to.

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Many of us came

because it was the right thing to do.

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And all of us have seen men die.

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This is a different kind of army.

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If you look back through history,

you'll see men fighting for pay...

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...for women, for some other kind of loot.

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They fight for land, power.

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Because a king leads them,

or just because they like killing.

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We are here for something new.

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This has not happened much

in the history of the world.

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We are an army out to set other men free.

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America should be free ground.

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All of it.

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Not divided by a line

between slave state and free.

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All the way from here

to the Pacific Ocean.

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No man has to bow.

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No man born to royalty.

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Here we judge you by what you do,

not by who your father was.

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Here you can be something.

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Here is the place to build a home.

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But it's not the land.

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There's always more land.

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It's the idea that we all have value.

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You and me.

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What we're fighting for, in the end...

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...we're fighting for each other.

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Sorry.

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I didn't mean to preach.

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You go ahead.

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You talk for a while.

Uh, if you, uh....

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If you choose to join us and want

your muskets back, you can have them.

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Nothing more will be said

by anybody, anywhere.

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If you choose not to join us,

you can come along under guard.

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When this is over, I'll do what I can...

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...to see you get a fair treatment,

but for now, we're moving out.

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Gentlemen.

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I think if we lose this fight...

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...we lose the war.

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So, if you choose to join us,

I'll be personally very grateful.

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[DRUM BEATING]

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[CHATTERING]

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SPEAR:

Colonel, it's a fine morning.

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-Captain, are we ready?

-That we are.

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Then let's move out.

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20th Maine!

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Forward!

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[SOLDIERS YELLING]

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March!

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[MARCHING MUSIC PLAYING]

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[GUARD YELLS]

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GAMBLE:

That's infantry, all right.

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At least a whole brigade.

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BUFORD:

Any sign of cavalry?

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Not a lick, sir.

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That's strange.

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Infantry moving alone

in enemy country, blind.

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Very strange, sir.

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What do you make of that?

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