The Guns of Fort Petticoat Page #4

He also said "An eye for an eye."

Go to the other side!

Get below!

Martin, Lacey, see if you can

get some fire in there.

Is she dead?

She was guilty. She was stained

with the mark of sinners.

Shut upl

Come on, get her below, quick.

Mary.

Oh, what's the use of all this?

We can't beat them!

Let's just wait and die!

Oh...

What are you standing around for?

Did you think it would be a picnic?

Sergeant, take care of her.

What's it look like out there,

Gibbons?

Put her over there.

Mama! Talk to me, Mama!

Mama!

Oh, Mama.

Mama.

Come on, baby. Come on, baby.

I wanna stay by Mama, please.

I know, baby, but it's gonna be

all right. You come with Lucy, huh?

I'll take care of you, I promise.

Everything's gonna be all right.

There's some things the army

doesn't teach, aren't there?

Lucy, I... I wish to apologise for

the bad things I've said about you.

And the... worse things

I've thought about you.

Forget it.

I...

Thank you.

How many casualties?

Two dead. Quite a few nicks.

It could have been worse.

What happens now?

We wait until the medicine man says

a prayer to decide when to attack.

How will we know?

It won't be any secret.

# Them golden slippers, gold

# Golden slippers I'm gonna wear

because they look for me #

Conover, we need what rest we can get

Those drums are driving me crazy!

Frank! They're sneaking up on us!

Hold it! That's no attack.

They're coming to claim their dead.

Sergeant, when they've gone, send

a detail to bury those renegades.

Right.

I'm sorry.

You did right.

How are you holding up?

Just tired.

This may sound strange

after the way I acted,

but when you're liable

to be sleeping for a long while,

you want as much living as you can

in the time that's left.

You're a good soldier. Get some rest.

Thanks.

Frank. I want you to know, whatever

happens, I've learned one thing -

life is meant for only one thing,

every minute of it.

To love and to be loved,

that's all that counts.

Stella, listen...

- Please.

If we live, I'll tell my husband

that what never started

between us will never start

And then I'm going home. And wait.

Jones, take over here.

You're on guard later.

Get some sleep.

Stop treating me like a child.

I treat you all the same.

Except Stella.

That's crazy.

No. If you can fool a boy like Bax,

if you can lie about me...

If you don't want to be treated

like a child, don't act like one.

Scared, Ann?

We all are, you know.

It's not that.

Oh?

What, then? The love bug bite you?

No!

I don't know.

I just don't know.

Oh, to be young and not know

the source of your troubles.

He's a Yankee.

Yes, and he's a liar, too.

Hear, now. If you love him, you help

him. He's got nothing but troubles.

Men, I want to talk to you.

He ought to be back in the army,

always shouting, shouting orders.

His shouting doesn't fool me.

He's worrying himself sick for us.

Trying not to show it.

That's why he's shouting.

Good soldiers ought to know the truth

We can let them burn us out

or carry the fight to them.

You're leaving it up to us?

Why? You don't tell us how to

nurse babies, so we don't tell you

how to fight Comanches.

That's right.

What happened?

Him! That medicine man.

I got so mad at him for asking

his god about killing more of us,

that I loaded up old Betsy

with five times her...

Oh, look at her.

Five times?

Hannah, he's more than a mile away.

He is?

Guns work for 300 yards at best They

keep the medicine man out of range.

I guess I figured I'd prove my god

was more powerful than his.

Well, I guess

I was just hoping for a miracle.

Let's see if we can fix up one.

Yeah, I... Huh?

Let's go.

Sure you can hit these things?

We'll hit 'em.

Don't forget everything I told you.

It's up to you now. I'm staying here.

Are you trying to get killed?

Obey orders.

All right, men. Back to the fort.

That's enough.

What's holding you up, Martin?

Well, it's too bad to waste time

until maybe there isn't any more.

Time for what?

Hardly more than... maybe goodbye.

Or to apologise for the mean things

I said without having enough sense

to realise I'd regret them.

With any luck,

I think we might have been friends.

Maybe more than that.

How does it look, Sergeant?

They look upset about something.

Good luck.

- Same to you.

Now, put your sights on them bombs

and squeeze gently.

Frank is running away!

He's gone to do that miracle I tried

with that old musket last night.

He's getting the medicine man.

Fire!

Did he make it?

Yes. Go with the other children.

I'm the only man left to help fight.

No, Bax. Do as I tell you.

No! You got no right to say no

after what I did.

Here's a gun. Take that last window.

Guard that window!

We make a great team, Hetty.

Yes, ma'am, we sure do.

I'll get some more ammunition.

Hetty!

From now on, ma'am, you'll have to

do your own hair and dressing.

And shooting, too.

Look!

You're making a mistake!

Look! You're making a mistake!

You're killing the wrong ones!

Shut up!

Bax! How are you? Oh, Bax!

Cora, what are you doing?

Let go!

I'm gonna kill them!

Ammunition.

Go easy. We only have a little left.

This thing is stuck.

Ammunition! Ammunition!

Ammunition over here.

Drag him over to the front.

When I throw this rope down,

tie it round his arms, someone.

There it is.

Give me a hand with this rope.

Open the doors!

That's good, give me some slack.

If superstitions run true to form

then this ought to do it.

We whipped them!

Lieutenant, I got an apology.

You're a better man than I am!

Ann?

- Yes?

I have to go away for a while.

For how long, I don't know.

I go remembering that, with any luck,

we might have been more than friends.

Then why go?

I'm still a deserter.

I don't want to spend my life running

Where's he going?

The defendant will

step forward and face the court.

The court has weighed the evidence

presented by the prosecution and

defence. The unanimous verdict...

Ten-shun!

At ease, gentlemen.

Don't let me interrupt, Colonel

Chivington. You're in charge.

Lieutenant Hewitt is charged

with insubordination and desertion.

Where did you apprehend him?

He came back voluntarily

but with a wild story of

rallying a bunch of women in Texas

and fighting off Indians.

That was no story.

The defendant will remain silent.

Yellow Horse and Broken Foot

were brought in three days ago.

They did admit to being in a fight.

One they'll never forget.

With buffalo hunters,

not some petticoat brigade.

Out of my way, sonny!

Up on your feet, everyone!

What's all this?

We've come for the Lieutenant.

Stand easy boys.

This ain't no bugle I'm holdin'.

Colonel,

this is that phantom petticoat army.

I'd like you to meet

Ogden, Conover, Sergeant Lacey,

Melavan and Corporal Martin.

Incidentally, six

of the best marksmen you ever saw.

Now we've been introduced,

let's get out of here.

Hold it, Lacey.

Look, men, I appreciate what you're

trying to do, but you'll get me hung.

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