{237}{333}- You are from Boston, are you not?|- Yes. {364}{458}It is impossible|to imagine Boston with slaves. {847}{909}Company, halt! {947}{1023}- Halt!|- Shoulder arms! {1025}{1109}Town's clean, sir.|Ain't no Rebs here, just some women. {1111}{1182}Well, alI right!|You hear that, boys? {1184}{1233}Let's clear her out! {1350}{1384}What are you doing? {1385}{1446}Liberating this town|in the name of the Republic. {1448}{1511}The musket, Massa Colonel?|Never shoot it. Shoot now? {1513}{1564}Yeah, I don't see why not.|Go ahead. {1606}{1659}Shoot the lady, boys! {1734}{1781}Don't shoot!|We ain't Secess' here! {1782}{1819}That man is a civilian. {1821}{1884}That man is Secess',|and Secess' is all the same, son. {2021}{2145}Look around. You really think anybody's|gonna put these boys into real combat? {2170}{2197}Do you? {2249}{2310}They're little children, for God's sake.|They're little monkey children. {2312}{2355}You just gotta know|how to control them. {2470}{2532}Please, let go! Oh, God! {2558}{2613}You see what I mean?|Children! {2671}{2769}- Animal! Leave her aIone!|- Hey, boy! {2770}{2806}Take your hands off the white lady! {3046}{3116}That would not have been necessary|if that Secess' woman hadn't started it. {3118}{3182}They'll never learn. {3184}{3269}Secess' has got to be|swept away by the hand ot God... {3270}{3333}like the Jews of old. {3334}{3385}And now I'll have to burn this town. {3422}{3505}Nigger soldiers! Nigger soldiers! {3563}{3633}TeIl your men to set torches|and prepare to fire the buildings. {3634}{3685}I will not. {3727}{3776}That is an order. {3778}{3862}You will do it or face charges|for disobeying your superior officer. {3864}{3957}It is an immoral order, and by articles|of war I am not bound to obey it. {3958}{4028}Well, you can just explain that|at your court-martial... {4062}{4128}after your men|are placed under my command. {4428}{4497}First squad, second platoon. {4498}{4593}Fall out to set torches.|Prepare to fire the town. {4594}{4684}First squad, second platoon!|Fall out! {5331}{5389}Right face! {5453}{5520}Forward march! {5522}{5598}The colors, Sergeant Major. {5600}{5646}Change the colors. {5685}{5725}What you lookin' at,|biscuit eaters? {5726}{5794}You think you better than me?|You think you my judge? {5796}{5842}You ain't nothin'! {6298}{6353}"Dear Father. I need your help. {6427}{6491}Despite my many requests,|it has become clear... {6493}{6568}that we are to be|used only for manual labor. {6630}{6671}Morale is low. {6672}{6759}The men 's good humor|darkened by idleness and despair. {6761}{6872}Why keep drilling if they're never given|the opportunity to prove themselves?" {6874}{6908}Attention! {6959}{7005}"l have written to Governor Andrew... {7007}{7065}as well as to|the General Staff in Washington. {7067}{7154}But I feel that only a letter|directly from you to Lincoln himself... {7155}{7211}can have the desired effect. {7237}{7291}I can think of no other course. {7351}{7400}I am sure you both pray,|as I do... {7402}{7451}that all this|has not been in vain. " {7452}{7532}Look like we're goin' the wrong way. {7534}{7617}Hey. Hey, come on now.|Buck up, boys! {7619}{7675}Hey, buck up now! Come on! {7676}{7747}Someday they're gonna|let the 54th get into it, see? {7749}{7795}And all your troubles|would be over, huh? {7797}{7866}Come on now. Cheer up! Hey! {7891}{7987}- What'd you say, boy?|- "Boy"? {7989}{8031}- Let me tell you--|- Shut up, Trip-- {8032}{8087}Would you get up off me, snowflake? {8138}{8195}See, let me explain|something to you. {8196}{8296}The way I figure, l figure this war|would be over a whole lot sooner... {8298}{8379}if you boys just turn right on around|and head on back down that way... {8380}{8442}and you let us head on up there|where the real tightin' is. {8443}{8491}Them men dyin' up that road. {8492}{8581}It wouldn't be nothin' but Rebs dying,|if they let the 54th in it. {8583}{8619}- Listen--|- Hold it! {8668}{8731}As you were, Trip! As you were! {8775}{8822}You men move on. {8823}{8937}Stripes on a nigger.|That's like tits on a bull. {8982}{9065}You're lookin' at a higher rank,|Corporal. You'll obey and like it. {9091}{9135}- Make me.|- I'll make you. {9173}{9256}- What the helI is goin' on here?|- Attention! {9258}{9355}You! Yes, you. What's your name?|I'm putting you up on charges. {9356}{9425}- Ain't no cause tor that, sir.|- What's that, Sergeant? {9427}{9523}It's just a soldiers' fight, sir. {9601}{9667}- All right. You men move along.|- Front step! Forward! March! {9668}{9697}Move it! {9716}{9808}You men get back to work.|Back to work! Let's go! {9810}{9912}- We'll see you again.|- Go dig a latrine. {9913}{9963}Go strum a banjo, boy. {9964}{9999}Come on. {10096}{10178}I've got the guard.|Let me use your looking glass. {10248}{10282}Thank you. {10340}{10389}Yeah, button up that collar. {10415}{10472}Suck in that gut. {10474}{10524}Tuck in them big black lips. {10526}{10596}Lighten your skin.|Shrink up that nose. {10597}{10656}I don't have to listen to this. {10688}{10735}Where you goin', boy? {10763}{10854}- Let me by.|- Let you by? {10856}{10912}Let you by? {10939}{10996}Let me tell you something, boy. {10998}{11070}You can march like the white man.|You can talk like 'em. {11072}{11138}You can learn his songs.|You can even wear his suits. {11140}{11209}But you ain't never|gonna be nothin' to him... {11211}{11310}but an ugly-ass chimp|in a blue suit. {11336}{11383}- Oh, you don't like that, do you?|- No. {11440}{11524}What we gonna do about it?|Want to fight me, boy? {11525}{11596}Huh? What you gonna|do about it? {11650}{11740}You want to fight me, don't you?|Don't you? {11844}{11896}- Come on, nig.|- All right! All right! {11897}{11938}Get your hands off me,|gravedigger. {11940}{11996}Goddamn it. Does the whole world|gotta stomp in your face? {11998}{12076}- Nigger, get your hands off me.|- Ain't no niggers here. {12077}{12134}So the white man give you|a couple ot stripes... {12136}{12194}next thing you know, you hollerin'|and orderin' everybody around... {12196}{12235}like you the massa himself. {12236}{12304}Nigger, you ain't nothin'|but the white man's dog. {12356}{12403}And what are you? {12404}{12471}So full ot hate|you wanna fight everybody... {12472}{12530}'cause you've been whipped|and chased by hounds. {12532}{12592}That might not be livin',|but it sure ain't dyin'. {12594}{12692}And dying's what these white boys|been doin' for goin' on three years now. {12693}{12776}Dyin' by the thousands.|Dyin' for you, fool! {12777}{12831}I know, 'cause l dug the graves. {12832}{12887}And all the time I'm diggin',|I'm asking myselt, "When?" {12888}{12939}When, O Lord,|is it gonna be our time?" {12968}{13028}Time's comin' when|we're gonna have to ante up. {13030}{13116}Ante up and kick in like men.|Like men! {13158}{13205}You watch who you call a nigger. {13207}{13276}If there's any niggers around here,|it's you. {13277}{13367}Smart-mouth, stupid-ass,|swamp-running nigger. {13368}{13423}If you ain't careful,|that's all you ever gonna be. {13516}{13584}You men go on back to business. {14137}{14172}Ah, Shaw. {14213}{14248}Sit down. {14394}{14473}Well, Colonel,|what can I do for you? {14475}{14588}You can give me and my regiment|a transfer to combat command. {14605}{14652}Couldn't do it, Colonel. {14653}{14713}You're much too valuable|to my operations here. {15041}{15077}May I sit? {15115}{15169}Thank you. Major. {15404}{15453}I've written a letter|to my father... {15483}{15588}asking him to press Governor Andrew|and President Lincoln. {15589}{15647}But I don't have to wait|for all that, do l? {15703}{15795}Colonel Montgomery, would you|bring that ashtray over here? {15879}{15951}But valuable to your operations here,|do you say? {15953}{16033}Your foraging,|your depredations? {16057}{16145}Yes, "ve become quite a student|of your operations in this region. {16147}{16221}Thirty-four mansions,|I think it was, pillaged and burned... {16222}{16312}under Colonel Montgomery's expedition|of the Combahee. {16313}{16408}Four thousand bales of cotton|smuggled through the lines... {16409}{16459}with payment to parties unknown... {16461}{16521}except by you. {16523}{16616}False quartermaster requisitions.|Major Forbes here has seen the copies. {16617}{16664}Yes, indeed. {16665}{16777}Along with confiscated valuables|shipped north as personal baggage. {16812}{16853}Shall I go on? {16879}{16915}Can you? {16971}{17042}I can report you|to the War Department. {17068}{17152}Oh, yes. I can do that. {17339}{17455}Let you take your regiment|out to fight? {17513}{17605}That's what you want, isn't it?|Show what they can do. {17634}{17712}- When?|- You are bright-eyed, aren't you? {17714}{17757}When? {17822}{17909}Just as soon as|I can write the orders. {18013}{18047}Major. {18330}{18365}Double-quick! {18514}{18616}All right, company, in a line.|Double-quick! {18618}{18715}All right, men, form a firing line.|Over here. {18717}{18782}Form a firing line right here! {19069}{19126}Front rank, kneel! {19167}{19206}Steady, boys! {19314}{19401}Firing by battalion! {19443}{19472}Aim! {19498}{19553}Charge! {19554}{19597}Fire! {19778}{19878}Cease fire! Recover! {20362}{20400}Here they come! {20666}{20729}- Reload!|- Reload! Load! {20730}{20818}- Load it! Load it!|- Quickly, men! {20819}{20877}- Ready!|- Ready! {20909}{20959}- Aim!|- Aim! {20961}{21015}Get ready. Get ready! {21017}{21067}Fire! {21310}{21365}- Reload!|- Reload! {21367}{21415}Quickly! {21417}{21487}- Fire at will!|- Fire at will! {21782}{21818}Pour it in! {22180}{22220}Charge! {23939}{24009}Look out, boy! Look out! {24443}{24472}Fire! {24786}{24847}They're turnin' tail! {24997}{25038}Run, you Rebs! {25272}{25319}Deploy skirmishers, Captain. {25320}{25402}Re-form your ranks!|Re-form your ranks! {25739}{25804}Fall in...
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