Gods and Generals Page #3

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...and the general hopes his soldiers

will step out and keep closed ranks.

Well, this march is a forced march

to save our country.

You must get some rest, sir.

I'll rest easier when Pendleton and

the artillery make it up this mountain.

They'll make better time tomorrow, sir.

It'll all be downhill.

You'll trust me to wait for the guns, sir?

Dr. McGuire.

You're an excellent practitioner,

and I believe I will take your prescription.

No fires, no tents.

Just like I always dreamed it'd be.

You suppose the Virginia legislature was

gonna buy you your own personal tent?

That's fine for now.

You'll be humming a different tune when

it's raining, you're all covered in frost...

...or you need me to dig you

out of a snowdrift.

So damn dark the bats

run into each other.

Old Hickory's just getting us

fit for the fighting.

Old Hickory, Old Jack, Old Blue Light.

How many names you got

for the old man, anyway?

Them VMI boys come up

with the choice one.

They calls him "Tom Fool" when

he's looking the other way.

I'll be a fool if I listened

to you all livelong night.

Old Tom Fool. That name ought to

stick to him like a tick on a mule.

That's it! Step lively! Two at a time!

As quick as you can.

No dilly, no dally.

One foot forward, then the other.

Nothing pretty, nothing fancy.

Into the train. Do it lovely,

do it ugly, all the same to me.

- Colonel Jackson.

- Colonel Trimble.

- I understand you're a train man.

- Baltimore and Ohio.

Spent most of my life building lines,

and the past six months tearing them up.

No use in leaving them in fine

fettle with a meddling Yankee.

If you'll excuse me, sir.

Got to move these men where they'll

do the most damage to the enemy.

Now that's the finest dressed man

in the whole Confederate Army.

In you go! Up and over!

Through the brush and in the clover.

Crowd on in. Move it over.

Dear Lord:

This is your day.

And you have admonished us

to keep it holy.

If it is your will that we fight this day...

...then your will be done.

I ask your protection over Anna...

...your faithful servant, my loving wife.

I ask you to shine your face down

upon her, Lord, on her 30th birthday...

...and fill her heart with the conviction

of how much she is loved and missed...

...by her husband.

Dear Lord:

You have called me to this place,

in this hour...

...far from my home

and my loved ones...

...but I know it is your will

that leads me here.

If it is your will that we fight today,

I am ready, Lord. Thy will be done.

It is your sword I will wield into battle.

Your banner I will raise against those

who would desecrate our land.

And if it is my time

to be with you, Lord...

...then I come to you

with all the joy in my heart.

Amen.

That's General Bee's brigade!

Inform General Bee the

Ask him, can he hold long enough

for me to deploy my men?

Yes, sir! I'll ask him!

They may not hold, gentlemen.

We must assume they cannot.

- Mr. Smith.

- Sir?

Instruct Imboden and Stanard to position

their batteries in the center of the crest.

I want the 4th and the 27th

regiments stationed as support.

I want the 5th Regiment posted

to their right...

...the 2nd and 33rd to the left.

Understood?

Counter battery fire!

Eight hundred yards!

- Shell! Five-second fuse!

- Fire!

Counter battery fire. 800 yards.

Shell, five inch. Five-second fuse.

Fire!

General! Our line on Matthew's Hill

has broken. They are beating us back.

Then we must give them the bayonet!

below the crest of the hill. And stay low!

Rally, men! Rally!

Look!

There is Jackson,

standing like a stone wall.

Let us determine to die here today

and we will conquer.

Rally behind the Virginians!

Fix bayonets.

- Fix bayonets!

- Fix!

Fill in there...!

Instruct the men to lay down!

Hug the ground!

- Lie down, men!

- Privates! First rank, lie down!

Second rank, kneel!

They are coming, boys.

Wait till they get close before you shoot.

Hold your fire!

Halt!

Hold your fire!

Ready!

Aim!

Fire!

Fire!

Fire! Reload!

- Rise up!

- Quickly, boys!

Rise up!

Quickly, men! Quickly!

Ready!

Aim!

Fire!

Fire!

Reload! Reload, men!

Come on, boys!

Quick and we can whip them!

- Easy. We have no orders to advance!

- Get back in the ranks!

Steady, men. Steady!

Damn it.

Charge!

It's Cummings' boys.

- What are they doing?

- Easy, Mr. Pendleton. Easy.

Good to have your dander up,

but discipline wins the day.

About-face! About-face, men!

Aim! Fire!

For God's sakes, forward!

General, sir, the day is going against us.

If you think so, sir, you had better

not say anything about it.

Rise up, rise up!

Rise up, Virginia!

Stand up, you men!

Stand up, you free men!

We're gonna charge them.

We're gonna drive them to Washington!

Stand up, Virginia!

...reserve your fire...

...till they come within 50 yards...

...then fire!

And give them the bayonet!

And when you charge...

...yell like Furies!

- Ready! Aim!

- Aim!

- Fire!

- Fire!

Charge bayonets!

Charge!

Press on! Press on!

I surrender! I surrender!

General?

How is it you can keep so serene...

...and stay so utterly insensible...

...with a storm of shells and bullets

raining about your head?

Captain Smith...

...my religious belief teaches me

to feel as safe in battle as in bed.

God has fixed the time for my death,

I do not concern myself with that...

...but to be always ready,

whenever it may overtake me.

That is the way all men should live.

Then all men would be equally brave.

Preliminary reports for the brigade, sir.

Three hundred seventy-three

wounded or missing.

And if I may ask, sir, how's your hand?

Just a spent bullet. No more than

a scratch really, Mr. Pendleton.

I'm pleased with the part performed

by the brigade during the action.

Through the blessing of God...

...they met the thus far victorious enemy

and turned the fortunes of the day.

Good evening, gentlemen.

Tomorrow's a new day.

- Evening, general.

- Evening, sir.

Oh, Mr. Pendleton?

Thank you for the report.

I will never forget these men.

We must never forget them.

The universe itself is subject

to rules, to law.

The super-abounding life lavished

on this world of ours...

...is proof...

...that the play of infinite freedom...

...is here to help work out

the will of infinite law.

The nature

of the universe demonstrates...

...that freedom can only exist...

...as part of law.

Pardon me, Professor Chamberlain...

...but how does the study of philosophy

intersect with real life?

If freedom can only exist

as a part of law...

...how can we continue to tolerate slavery

protected by law?

Lawrence, I know.

How?

I've noticed the way you've been looking

into the children's room each night.

Blue.

Why blue uniforms? It should be red.

- Like the English, the color of blood.

- Are you angry with me?

Lawrence, my darling Lawrence.

Do you remember when you were

thinking of being a missionary?

And you wrote me saying

that you wished your little wife...

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