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<i>At the beginning of
the American Civil War,</i>

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<i>when Virginia voted to
secede from the Union,</i>

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<i>the United States Navy was forced
to abandon Gosport,</i>

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<i>its finest naval facility.</i>

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<i>The USS Pawnee</i>

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<i>arrived with orders to make
sure that nothing of any value</i>

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<i>was left to fall into Confederate hands,</i>

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<i>including the pride of the Navy,</i>

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<i>the 40-gun steam frigate, Merrimack.</i>

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Burn every ship that can't be towed...

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burn the machine shops, the storehouses!
- What about the drydock, Sir?

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Destroy it, completely!

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One thing we mustn't leave
for the enemy, it's the dry-dock!

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Harmon!

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Sir!

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Harmon, you know the dry-dock
better than any of us.

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Take a detail and 20 kegs of powder.

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- Make it 25... and blow it up!
- Yes sir!

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Fire!

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Take cover!

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Take cover!

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Don't let those rebels
get the best of you, men.

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Shoot square.

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That's it. Come on!

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Get those animals out of here!

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Get out of here!
- Yes, sir!

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Bring up more powder!

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Fire!

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Go on, get out of here!

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But I don't see the dry-dock going up yet.

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Harmon!

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Sir!

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We placed the kegs...we lit the
powder trail, it must have burned out, Sir.

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So...

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they get the only first rate dry-dock
south of the Mason-Dixon line!

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God knows how they'll use it against us!

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What they have done gentlemen

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<i>is they have towed the
Merrimack into the dry dock</i>

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and on the undamaged hull, they are
constructing a ship to be armored with iron.

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If the Rebel Navy is building an ironclad,
then

41
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we damn well better
build one for our side.

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You, gentlemen,
are hereby appointed a special

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board to consider
designs for an ironclad

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and on approval,

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expedite construction.

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Mr. Secretary,
where are these designs going to come from?

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I'm advertising for submissions.

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If they haven't kept their plans secret,
why should we?

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Mr. Secretary, before we commit funds and
manpower to such an untested idea...

50
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how do we know the South
is building an iron ship?

51
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The rumors are thick as Mississippi mud.

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They've been known to send
agents up here to plant false rumors.

53
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Yes, yes, Johnny Reb is more effective with
a cloak and dagger than we are, granted.

54
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Still, we're not totally inept.

55
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It happens there's a young
lady of a fine Virginia family,

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going to school in Baltimore,
distantly related to one of our officers.

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He vouches for her res...

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So we know about the
ironclad from a spy.

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I'll say no more.

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Except that I hate to apply such
an ugly word to such a beautiful lady.

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But... that's the best kind, isn't it?

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Quartermaster's mate Leslie Harmon.

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Two witnesses saw you stamp out the
powder fuse in the drydock.

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Do you have anything to say for yourself?

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Sir, they must have mistaken
me for somebody else.

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Men of your own detail?

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Uncle Joe,
I hate to see a fellow Virginian like this.

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Couldn't we take those chains off the boy?

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Go on, son. Go ahead.

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Sir, shackles are standard procedure!

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Now be an angel, Joey,
and do as your daddy tells you.

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Take 'em off!

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You men are dismissed.

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I'm not a Virginian,
I'm from New York.

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New York?

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Well, then why in the world
did you do what you did?

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Why didn't they put me to burning
the ships, spiking the cannon?

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I would have done it, I swear!

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This is my second hitch, look at
my record, I don't disobey orders, but...

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blow up the drydock...

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the stone blocks would have
fallen on houses in town.

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You have to understand,
I was stationed in Gosport two years!

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I made friends!

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Merciful God,
that's who those stones would have killed!

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I mean orders are orders, yes,
but I'm sorry. I couldn't kill my friends.

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Well...

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I think that sounds like a pretty decent
reason. Don't you think so, too, Uncle Joe?

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Makes no difference!

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Disobeying a lawful order
in the face of the enemy,

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is the worst military offense there is.

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You'll have a court-martial, of course.

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The only question is whether
you'll be hanged or shot.

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Now,
is there anything else you want to say?

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- No sir.
- Good.

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Now sit down and
listen very carefully.

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This is my only son, Joseph Jr.

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And I tell you,
if he were in your frightful situation...

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I would pray to Heaven he'd be given
the chance we're about to give you.

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Go ahead Joe!

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Harmon!

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You haven't seen a newspaper
since your arrest.

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You don't know what
they've been writing about you.

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To the South you're a hero
for what you did at Gosport.

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Is that right, sir?

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This gives you a chance to make up for it,
if you have the nerve.

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To do what, sir?

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To escape from the brig.

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We'll arrange it.

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Slip through the lines to Virginia...
we'll help you.

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In the drydock you gave them...

111
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<i>the rebel navy is building an armored ship
on the hull of the Merrimack.</i>

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You have technical training
to get us the specifications we need...

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Excuse me, sir!

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They hang spies, don't they?

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You can help me escape,
but in Virginia I'd be all on my own.

116
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Not quite.

117
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I'll be with you!

118
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No one will suspect a friend of mine.

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- Trust my Leslie.
- Why should I?

120
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I trust you!

121
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I'll tell you my name.

122
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Betty Stuart.

123
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You trust me with your name because I'm
in not in a position to do you any harm.

124
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Well, you ought to trust me,
because I'm

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the only one who's
going to do you any good.

126
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What good?

127
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I can present you to the
people of Norfolk who matter.

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Who can open the gates of Gosport for you.

129
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How would that help me?

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Harmon, if you get this job done,

131
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you can come home to a presidential pardon.

132
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Well...

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I may know your name Betty Stuart.

134
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But I don't know why you're
going against your own people.

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I'm not going against my people.

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But I've been to school in the North.

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And I've read all the
books you all have read.

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There's no civilized country
anywhere in the world...

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where a man can hold
another man as a slave.

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Except our country.

141
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Now, that's what I'm against.

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Isn't that worth fighting for?

143
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Right now, miss,
I'm just fighting to save my neck.

144
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Good morning Colonel!

145
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Left, left!

146
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He can manage without you.

147
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Norfolk society will
fall all over the hero.

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Don't go back, Betty!

149
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Now Joe, there are lots of girls
around here to take your mind off me.

150
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Nobody can take my mind off of you.

151
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Even you can't do that,
and it's not because you haven't tried.

152
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Betty, it's too dangerous for
you to keep crossing the lines.

153
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Nonsense, I do it all the time
without the slightest trouble!

154
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But this time you'll have
Harmon to worry about.

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Will he do something stupid and give
himself away, and then give you away?

156
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You'll be placing your life in his hands!

157
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No more than he'll be placing his in mine!
Fair is fair!

158
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I don't give a damn what's fair!

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I just have a terrible feeling that if
you go back now I'll never see you again.

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Joe...!

161
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I love you dearly!

162
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But I have to go.

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And I'm goin'.

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How did you ever do it, Mr. Harmon?

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Well, Mrs. Fletcher!

166
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Miss Betty is so pretty the guards
just looked at her and never noticed me.

167
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Is that true Blossom?

168
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Oh, well, I'm sure I don't know! Betty?

169
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We bribed the guards.

170
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Everybody knows the damn Yankees
will do anything for money.

171
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Mr. Harmon, you must come with me,
Colonel Fletcher wants to meet you.

172
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I'd be delighted!

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Do you see who's here, Betty?
Catesby Jones!

174
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I thought he was still in Alabama.
Didn't you?

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I never gave a thought about where he was.

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Go and say hello to him!

177
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Well, I will not, mother. He can
come over here and say hello to me!

178
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If he wants to...and if not,
fine and dandy.

179
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Well, really...!

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If I'd taken that attitude with your
father, where do you suppose you'd be?

181
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Mother!

182
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Betty Stuart!
However did you get in?

183
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Did you forget that the linen or woolen or

184
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wool flannel garment or undergarment
is the price of admission for ladies?

185
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It's for the war effort, you know!

186
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Oh, well, Mrs. Coyt, I had a bundle
of woolens I was going to bring,

187
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but I was so anxious to present you
all to Mr. Leslie Harmon that I forgot.

188
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Oh, well, if that's true, then
you can just go home and get it!

189
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Well, that'll take an hour.
Can't she just bring it to you?

190
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If I didn't put her in my book,
she isn't supposed to be here.

191
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Salome Coyt!
You are as mean as you look!

192
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Mother! Now,
it's all right. I'll go home and get it.

193
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Now, now, now. Ladies!

194
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Ma'am...

195
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Ma'am, if you'll allow me,
Miss Betty will pay

196
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her admission if you very
kindly give me a moment.

197
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Gentlemen, close ranks!

198
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Thank you!

199
00:14:00,313 --> 00:14:02,489
Ladies sorry for the delay,
but everything is in order,

200
00:14:02,513 --> 00:14:04,589
perhaps Miss Betty would care to dance.

201
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Put that in your book, Salome.

202
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If you can write with your mouth open.

203
00:14:42,814 --> 00:14:44,114
Well, now.

204
00:14:44,214 --> 00:14:47,815
Betty said we're supposed to do something
special about you, but she didn't say what.

205
00:14:48,416 --> 00:14:50,770
But I don't think I'm
going to ask her just now.

206
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Why not?

207
00:14:52,318 --> 00:14:54,417
Because, there was a time...

208
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when I had high hopes she was
going to be Mrs. Catesby Jones.

209
00:14:58,250 --> 00:15:00,319
It didn't happen then, but now...

210
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just look at them,
lovely couple, aren't they.

211
00:15:03,621 --> 00:15:04,721
I suppose so.

212
00:15:06,222 --> 00:15:07,447
Just joking, ma'am.

213
00:15:08,522 --> 00:15:11,053
Miss Betty said she would
introduce me to some Lieutenant.

214
00:15:11,524 --> 00:15:13,523
Well, you pick one, I'll introduce you.

215
00:15:13,925 --> 00:15:15,779
No, ma'am, it's a special one.

216
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He's aide to the Admiral in command.

217
00:15:18,127 --> 00:15:20,834
Oh, that's Lieutenant Guilford.

218
00:15:21,227 --> 00:15:22,327
Come along.

219
00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:31,420
- Excuse me, Lieutenant Guilford!
- Mrs. Stuart...!

220
00:15:31,629 --> 00:15:34,444
May I present Mr. Leslie Harmon.

221
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The hero of Gosport.
you know...

222
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I certainly do.
Mr. Harmon, we are all in your debt.

223
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It was nothing!

224
00:15:42,632 --> 00:15:45,013
Sir,
I was told you might advise me on how to

225
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apply for a commission
in the Confederate Navy.

226
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I'll tell you what I'll do,
I'll do better than that.

227
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You come round to the Navy Yard tomorrow
and I'll take you to meet the Admiral.

228
00:15:55,835 --> 00:15:56,909
Thank you very much!

229
00:16:05,036 --> 00:16:07,271
I couldn't have that lady sending you home.

230
00:16:07,276 --> 00:16:08,758
I'd have to stop looking at you.

231
00:16:10,037 --> 00:16:12,523
You must not have seen
anything but alligators in Alabama.

232
00:16:12,739 --> 00:16:15,037
No alligator in Alabama
half as pretty as you.

233
00:16:15,338 --> 00:16:16,459
Is that a fact?

234
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How much did you trouble your head
about me when you went off down there?

235
00:16:20,141 --> 00:16:21,241
I'll tell you how much.

236
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I came home on leave
dying for you...

237
00:16:24,742 --> 00:16:26,505
and you were away at school in Baltimore.

238
00:16:26,993 --> 00:16:28,216
Well, you weren't here.

239
00:16:28,844 --> 00:16:31,684
I had to go to parties
with boys I didn't care for.

240
00:16:32,044 --> 00:16:33,770
So I decided to go away, too.

241
00:16:33,945 --> 00:16:36,318
Betty... I'm in the Navy.

242
00:16:36,648 --> 00:16:40,259
I mean, I know it was the Union Navy then,
but still I got to go where they send me.

243
00:16:40,264 --> 00:16:41,722
You could have taken me with you.

244
00:16:41,848 --> 00:16:42,868
I thought of that.

245
00:16:43,650 --> 00:16:46,049
I dreamed I was asking
you and you saying yes.

246
00:16:46,651 --> 00:16:49,055
But we were both so young
and there was plenty of time.

247
00:16:49,451 --> 00:16:50,613
Then, maybe.

248
00:16:51,352 --> 00:16:53,352
But war changes time.

249
00:16:53,853 --> 00:16:55,691
And school in Baltimore changed me.

250
00:16:56,455 --> 00:16:57,554
How?

251
00:17:00,054 --> 00:17:02,700
Well, for one thing,
it's not parties that interest me anymore.

252
00:17:03,656 --> 00:17:06,532
And for another,
I'm not as young as I used to be.

253
00:17:27,656 --> 00:17:29,992
Length 263 feet.

254
00:17:30,002 --> 00:17:31,901
The beam is 51 feet.

255
00:17:32,157 --> 00:17:34,011
And draft, 22 feet.

256
00:17:34,658 --> 00:17:37,095
<i>Now, that's what they've done
with the hull of the Merrimack.</i>

257
00:17:37,103 --> 00:17:40,397
The superstructure is a casemate
tilted in at a 30 degree angle

258
00:17:40,402 --> 00:17:42,061
to make enemy shots glance off.

259
00:17:42,161 --> 00:17:44,851
Oak planks to be covered with iron armor.

260
00:17:45,363 --> 00:17:47,698
The guns aren't emplaced yet,
but I found out about them.

261
00:17:47,962 --> 00:17:51,417
Your friend Lieutenant Jones brought four
of them from the cannon foundry in Alabama.

262
00:17:51,764 --> 00:17:52,771
He didn't tell me that!

263
00:17:52,792 --> 00:17:56,399
He didn't tell me either, I was told
by your sources at the Navy Yard.

264
00:17:56,465 --> 00:17:58,163
Very helpful thanks to you.

265
00:17:58,566 --> 00:17:59,967
They believe what I believe.

266
00:18:00,367 --> 00:18:03,293
Now, four guns on the starboard side,
four to port,

267
00:18:03,717 --> 00:18:06,643
one pivot gun in the bow and
another one in the stern.

268
00:18:08,468 --> 00:18:11,197
Wouldn't it be safer to take that
North in your head than on paper?

269
00:18:11,202 --> 00:18:12,392
I'm not taking it.

270
00:18:14,769 --> 00:18:15,770
Opal!

271
00:18:15,771 --> 00:18:16,970
Ya'll come on in!

272
00:18:17,372 --> 00:18:20,288
Opal is my mother's maid,
Cletus is her husband.

273
00:18:20,593 --> 00:18:23,497
My mother contracts them out
to the Gosport officers' mess.

274
00:18:23,873 --> 00:18:25,643
Got the shoe ready, Miss Betty.

275
00:18:27,175 --> 00:18:29,283
They carry messages
back and forth all the time.

276
00:18:29,675 --> 00:18:31,074
Opal's gonna take this one.

277
00:18:31,075 --> 00:18:33,224
You ever have any trouble
getting through the lines?

278
00:18:33,577 --> 00:18:34,677
Oh, no sir!

279
00:18:34,725 --> 00:18:36,780
Going North we tells
them we want to be free.

280
00:18:37,078 --> 00:18:39,876
Coming back South,
we tells them it's too damn cold up there.

281
00:18:40,180 --> 00:18:42,479
Cletus, make sure you stitch this good.

282
00:18:42,981 --> 00:18:46,200
Use an old thread Miss Betty,
nobody won't notice nothin'.

283
00:18:47,581 --> 00:18:48,682
Opal.

284
00:18:49,483 --> 00:18:50,584
You be careful.

285
00:18:56,283 --> 00:18:59,582
I guess your mother doesn't believe what
you believe, or she wouldn't own slaves.

286
00:19:00,984 --> 00:19:02,492
She doesn't like slavery.

287
00:19:02,584 --> 00:19:04,973
It's the way she was brought up,
it's a way of life.

288
00:19:06,185 --> 00:19:09,099
But there are some Southern
people who are not that strong for it.

289
00:19:09,886 --> 00:19:12,266
But they don't mind killing
Northern people to preserve it.

290
00:19:13,287 --> 00:19:15,636
Well, they say the war's not about slavery.

291
00:19:15,888 --> 00:19:19,401
It's about freeing the South from
economic oppression by the North.

292
00:19:20,189 --> 00:19:21,458
Don't let 'em fool you.

293
00:19:21,790 --> 00:19:23,330
It's about slavery.

294
00:19:38,590 --> 00:19:40,982
Well, they never keep us waiting here,
if you'll excuse me,

295
00:19:41,006 --> 00:19:42,683
I'll go see what the trouble is.

296
00:19:46,191 --> 00:19:48,511
- Good day, Miss Betty.
- Lieutenant Guilford.

297
00:19:49,091 --> 00:19:50,696
It's remarkable how
just seeing you...

298
00:19:50,707 --> 00:19:53,217
puts me in mind of all
kinds of good things.

299
00:19:54,393 --> 00:19:56,353
Such as good news for Leslie Harmon.

300
00:19:56,794 --> 00:19:58,838
If you happen to run into him,
you tell him the

301
00:19:58,862 --> 00:20:00,906
Admiral has forwarded
his application to Richmond.

302
00:20:00,994 --> 00:20:02,880
His commission should come through soon.

303
00:20:02,895 --> 00:20:05,005
Well, I will tell him if I see him.

304
00:20:05,297 --> 00:20:06,985
He's going to make an excellent officer.

305
00:20:07,798 --> 00:20:10,298
Well, you have a pleasant lunch.

306
00:20:11,499 --> 00:20:13,023
Oh, there is a... um

307
00:20:13,499 --> 00:20:16,177
test firing on the 29th at
the range in connection

308
00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,106
<i>with the Merrimack... oh,
pardon me...</i>

309
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,222
<i>she's the Virginia now. Everybody
still calls her the Merrimack. Anyway...</i>

310
00:20:21,602 --> 00:20:23,255
You tell Leslie he's invited!

311
00:20:23,302 --> 00:20:25,635
Good day.
Good day Mr. Jones.

312
00:20:26,052 --> 00:20:27,127
Good day Lieutenant.

313
00:20:27,804 --> 00:20:30,445
Why didn't he invite the man himself?
Why did he have to ask you?

314
00:20:30,455 --> 00:20:33,933
Well, Leslie's hard to find these days,
he's everybody's house guest.

315
00:20:34,305 --> 00:20:36,384
Well, it's nice of Leslie
to keep in touch with you.

316
00:20:36,406 --> 00:20:39,837
Well, my my, Lieutenant!
We aren't jealous, are we?

317
00:20:40,141 --> 00:20:41,283
No. Should I be?

318
00:20:42,208 --> 00:20:43,244
Here.

319
00:20:44,709 --> 00:20:45,810
Thank you!

320
00:20:51,109 --> 00:20:55,060
Betty, tell me a bit about this
Yankee hero of yours.

321
00:20:57,111 --> 00:20:59,169
Well,
I know he saved a lot of people's lives.

322
00:21:00,011 --> 00:21:01,447
What's on your mind, Catesby?

323
00:21:02,012 --> 00:21:04,513
Guilford is not just another
Admiral's aide.

324
00:21:04,714 --> 00:21:07,201
He's area detective,
he's also in charge of secret service...

325
00:21:07,406 --> 00:21:09,573
His job is to send spies
North against the Yankees

326
00:21:09,597 --> 00:21:12,082
and capture
spies that they send here.

327
00:21:12,715 --> 00:21:14,280
Why, that's quite a job.

328
00:21:14,915 --> 00:21:16,157
Hope he's good at it.

329
00:21:27,917 --> 00:21:29,162
Care for some sherry?

330
00:21:33,716 --> 00:21:35,816
The beauty of my invention...

331
00:21:35,817 --> 00:21:39,319
is that the turret turns to
bring guns to bear on target.

332
00:21:40,419 --> 00:21:43,018
You don't have to turn the whole ship.

333
00:21:43,019 --> 00:21:46,620
<i>I see you already named
your ship the "Monitor."</i>

334
00:21:46,921 --> 00:21:49,627
A perfect name,
Mr. President, the monitor

335
00:21:49,633 --> 00:21:52,622
restrains and corrects wrongdoers.

336
00:21:52,623 --> 00:21:53,723
Your enemies!

337
00:21:53,923 --> 00:21:55,024
Mr. Ericsson,

338
00:21:55,524 --> 00:21:59,305
I assume there's more to your
ship than the model shows.

339
00:22:00,024 --> 00:22:03,325
The model only
shows the ironclad portion...

340
00:22:03,331 --> 00:22:04,702
above water, Mr. Secretary.

341
00:22:04,727 --> 00:22:08,673
If you had studied my drawings you
would know that below the waterline...

342
00:22:08,678 --> 00:22:13,301
is a wooden hull housing two
engines and quarters for the crew.

343
00:22:13,928 --> 00:22:17,276
I am concerned about the stability
of this vessel, Mr. Ericsson.

344
00:22:17,929 --> 00:22:19,589
And I looked at all your figures.

345
00:22:19,830 --> 00:22:21,033
To look is one thing!

346
00:22:21,331 --> 00:22:24,999
To know the mathematics
required to understand is another.

347
00:22:25,132 --> 00:22:28,712
Your personal remarks, Sir,
does not answer my concerns.

348
00:22:28,833 --> 00:22:31,032
My credentials answer you!

349
00:22:31,533 --> 00:22:35,398
<i>Thirty years I've been building ships,
including USS Princeton!</i>

350
00:22:35,634 --> 00:22:38,425
Which was first warship
to be propelled by screw.

351
00:22:38,634 --> 00:22:41,135
I got skill like no engineer living.

352
00:22:41,336 --> 00:22:43,612
If you don't trust me with this ship,

353
00:22:43,936 --> 00:22:46,900
you cost your country the
benefit of my services.

354
00:22:47,537 --> 00:22:49,261
I'll wait for your decision.

355
00:22:54,738 --> 00:22:57,674
Unassuming son of Sweden, isn't he?

356
00:22:58,738 --> 00:23:02,491
<i>He didn't mention that a cannon on the
Princeton blew up and killed some people.</i>

357
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:06,333
Ericsson designed that cannon,
but he had nothing to do with building it.

358
00:23:07,139 --> 00:23:09,655
Well, gentlemen! Yes or no?

359
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,468
We have information from Gosport,

360
00:23:13,473 --> 00:23:16,296
<i>that "The Merrimack" will come
out of drydock in four to five months.</i>

361
00:23:17,442 --> 00:23:23,203
Nobody can start from scratch and build us
an ironclad in that time except Ericsson!

362
00:23:23,743 --> 00:23:28,677
He's promised to deliver us one
in 90 days. On that basis, I say yes.

363
00:23:29,044 --> 00:23:31,128
- Commodore?
- I agree with Commodore Smith?

364
00:23:33,345 --> 00:23:35,941
I say take the thing home and worship it.

365
00:23:35,946 --> 00:23:39,695
It resembles nothing on the
earth or on the seas or in the skies.

366
00:23:39,746 --> 00:23:41,934
So you can't be accused of idolatry.

367
00:23:42,148 --> 00:23:44,855
A simple no would have sufficed, Commander.

368
00:23:47,047 --> 00:23:48,213
Mr. President?

369
00:23:49,649 --> 00:23:54,505
All I can say is what the girl
said when she put her foot in the stocking.

370
00:23:55,150 --> 00:23:57,904
It strikes me there's something in it.

371
00:23:58,051 --> 00:23:59,151
Fire!

372
00:24:04,152 --> 00:24:05,251
Load!

373
00:24:07,752 --> 00:24:09,334
- Leslie!
- Lieutenant.

374
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:10,909
- Good to see you.
- Thank you, sir.

375
00:24:10,914 --> 00:24:12,014
Glad to have you with us.

376
00:24:12,054 --> 00:24:13,099
Your glass is empty!

377
00:24:14,456 --> 00:24:16,355
You! Come here you black rascal.

378
00:24:17,257 --> 00:24:18,972
Why is this gentleman's
glass empty?

379
00:24:19,457 --> 00:24:21,508
You think you've been
freed by the abolitionists...

380
00:24:21,513 --> 00:24:24,072
or would 20 lashes convince
you you're not a free nigger yet?

381
00:24:27,258 --> 00:24:29,603
Comin' right back with a
drink for the gentleman, massa.

382
00:24:29,961 --> 00:24:31,557
Lieutenant Jones!

383
00:24:31,661 --> 00:24:33,236
You may fire when ready.

384
00:24:33,662 --> 00:24:36,476
Ready!... Fire!

385
00:24:38,363 --> 00:24:39,971
Dear God! It went through!

386
00:24:40,064 --> 00:24:41,499
I don't know what to tell you!

387
00:24:41,804 --> 00:24:42,997
Secretary Mallory!

388
00:24:43,020 --> 00:24:46,617
I was assured me that three inches of
iron would turn away the heaviest shot!

389
00:24:46,865 --> 00:24:50,656
Mr. Secretary!
There's a simple solution.

390
00:24:50,661 --> 00:24:53,484
You just put on four inches of iron, sir!
Four inches of iron!

391
00:24:53,489 --> 00:24:54,826
That is no solution.

392
00:24:55,668 --> 00:24:58,863
Is three inches of iron all
she'll hold and still float?

393
00:24:58,868 --> 00:24:59,968
I'm afraid so!

394
00:24:59,972 --> 00:25:01,732
That ain't how it goin' the first time.

395
00:25:02,771 --> 00:25:03,826
What first time?

396
00:25:04,572 --> 00:25:06,579
They did the same
test last Monday.

397
00:25:06,773 --> 00:25:09,417
Not for no crowd,
just for a few gentlemens.

398
00:25:10,174 --> 00:25:11,273
How did it go?

399
00:25:11,475 --> 00:25:14,322
Well, the thing they shoot at that
time is in the storage over there.

400
00:25:15,076 --> 00:25:16,484
They've got the door locked, but...

401
00:25:16,489 --> 00:25:19,579
you might could go around the back
and peak in the window, down below.

402
00:25:20,677 --> 00:25:21,777
Thanks.

403
00:25:41,378 --> 00:25:43,126
It was another section
of the casemate.

404
00:25:43,278 --> 00:25:46,470
I could see two layers of iron
plate, each two inches thick.

405
00:25:46,979 --> 00:25:48,472
So, that's four inches, not three!

406
00:25:49,979 --> 00:25:53,179
The cannonballs hardly made a
dent, that test was the real one.

407
00:25:53,230 --> 00:25:55,503
So what you saw today
was just a show...

408
00:25:55,782 --> 00:25:58,024
just to get the wrong information
sent to the North.

409
00:25:58,031 --> 00:26:00,052
I bet half the civilians
there were invited...

410
00:26:00,157 --> 00:26:01,788
because Guilford
suspects they're spies.

411
00:26:01,884 --> 00:26:03,003
Including you.

412
00:26:03,386 --> 00:26:05,885
Well, he made a mistake with me,
thanks to Cletus.

413
00:26:06,186 --> 00:26:08,623
You've got to send Cletus
North with the right information.

414
00:26:08,886 --> 00:26:09,986
Not Cletus!

415
00:26:10,192 --> 00:26:11,287
Then send somebody else!

416
00:26:11,292 --> 00:26:13,100
It's got to go up tonight.
They have to know

417
00:26:13,124 --> 00:26:15,133
<i>they can't sink the
Merrimack with standard guns!</i>

418
00:26:15,138 --> 00:26:17,058
They must have more firepower!

419
00:26:17,090 --> 00:26:18,232
Listen to the man.

420
00:26:18,892 --> 00:26:21,600
You know a little while ago,
you were only concerned about yourself.

421
00:26:21,893 --> 00:26:24,227
Now, you're ready to march with John Brown.

422
00:26:25,893 --> 00:26:29,921
Maybe now I see...
how much I have to make up for.

423
00:26:30,394 --> 00:26:32,688
If I'd blown up the
drydock like I was ordered...

424
00:26:32,892 --> 00:26:34,745
there'd be no place to build that monster.

425
00:26:37,096 --> 00:26:40,420
Well, you can make up for it, by
taking the information North!

426
00:26:43,196 --> 00:26:44,296
Tonight!

427
00:26:44,998 --> 00:26:46,538
Go the quick and easy way.

428
00:26:46,698 --> 00:26:49,799
Just get through the pickets along the
beach and you know where the boat is.

429
00:26:49,999 --> 00:26:52,817
Two miles across the bay
and you're safe at Fortress Monroe.

430
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,460
No! No, send someone who
knows an overland route!

431
00:26:56,700 --> 00:26:58,546
There'll be a full moon
on the water tonight.

432
00:26:58,601 --> 00:27:00,549
Well then, you go late when the Moon sets.

433
00:27:01,402 --> 00:27:03,006
Betty, I'm not finished here!

434
00:27:03,604 --> 00:27:05,136
Yes, you are finished here!

435
00:27:05,404 --> 00:27:07,780
I can't have you staying on
with Guilford suspecting you,

436
00:27:07,785 --> 00:27:09,299
he could arrest you at any moment!

437
00:27:10,406 --> 00:27:11,691
Please go, Leslie!

438
00:27:11,808 --> 00:27:14,077
I got you into this,
I don't want them to hang you.

439
00:27:16,208 --> 00:27:17,975
Why should that bother you, you've got him.

440
00:27:19,409 --> 00:27:20,629
Why should you care about me?

441
00:27:21,128 --> 00:27:22,433
Because we're friends.

442
00:27:23,559 --> 00:27:26,308
What a foolish question after
everything we've been through together.

443
00:27:26,533 --> 00:27:27,785
Don't you care about me?

444
00:27:29,079 --> 00:27:30,490
I'd do anything for you.

445
00:27:33,969 --> 00:27:35,069
Then go.

446
00:27:35,517 --> 00:27:36,757
That's what you can do for me.

447
00:27:38,014 --> 00:27:39,113
Now do it.

448
00:27:42,291 --> 00:27:43,548
Yes, Miss Betty.

449
00:27:47,949 --> 00:27:50,936
Betty Stuart,
I wish I knew what to do with you.

450
00:27:51,504 --> 00:27:54,063
Don't they teach you
that at Annapolis?

451
00:27:56,878 --> 00:27:58,968
Well, they don't teach me
what I need to know now.

452
00:28:00,652 --> 00:28:03,915
Is it right for me to marry,
what with the war on?

453
00:28:07,238 --> 00:28:09,335
All you need to know
is if you love me.

454
00:28:10,094 --> 00:28:12,666
Oh yes, I love you Betty,
I love you so much

455
00:28:12,690 --> 00:28:15,263
I'm out of my mind thinking
what's right for you.

456
00:28:15,851 --> 00:28:19,617
Before the war I was willing to wait,
but now suddenly I can't wait.

457
00:28:19,702 --> 00:28:21,460
But how long is this war going to last!

458
00:28:22,324 --> 00:28:27,009
If it it's a short war then maybe, maybe
the right thing for us to do is to wait.

459
00:28:28,759 --> 00:28:30,344
It's going to be a long war.

460
00:28:30,786 --> 00:28:33,549
- Why do you say that?
- General Lee said so.

461
00:28:33,917 --> 00:28:35,671
I read it in a Richmond newspaper.

462
00:28:36,325 --> 00:28:39,914
He says our country will have to
go through a long and terrible ordeal.

463
00:28:40,496 --> 00:28:42,464
Expiation for our sins.

464
00:28:44,014 --> 00:28:45,112
What sins?

465
00:28:46,103 --> 00:28:47,253
Slavery.

466
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,643
General Lee says it's an evil thing.

467
00:28:50,648 --> 00:28:53,650
General Lee is supposed to be
the finest officer in the country, but...

468
00:28:53,657 --> 00:28:55,652
I doubt that he knows about sin.

469
00:28:56,772 --> 00:28:59,479
But maybe he knows how
long the war's going to last.

470
00:29:00,644 --> 00:29:01,674
Oh, Betty!

471
00:29:02,725 --> 00:29:05,123
Betty, my darling,
are you saying we ought to married now?

472
00:29:06,121 --> 00:29:07,221
Yes.

473
00:29:07,904 --> 00:29:08,934
Yes, now.

474
00:29:14,676 --> 00:29:16,776
Why should we waste any more of our lives?

475
00:29:25,485 --> 00:29:29,646
And besides, thank God, it's not as if
they're going to send you into battle.

476
00:29:30,148 --> 00:29:31,700
You're an ordnance officer.

477
00:29:32,077 --> 00:29:34,452
They'll just send you back
to the foundry in Alabama.

478
00:29:34,837 --> 00:29:36,494
And this time I'll go with you.

479
00:29:37,985 --> 00:29:39,699
But I am going into battle, Betty.

480
00:29:41,148 --> 00:29:43,705
And what a battle it will be.
We're going to make naval history.

481
00:29:43,910 --> 00:29:46,647
<i>My orders just came through. I've
been assigned to the Merrimack.</i>

482
00:29:47,904 --> 00:29:49,004
Why?

483
00:29:49,095 --> 00:29:51,634
Because they think highly of me,
Captain Buchanan does.

484
00:29:52,249 --> 00:29:53,423
He's in command.

485
00:29:53,728 --> 00:29:57,712
<i>Betty, I'm going to be Executive Officer
on the Merrimack, that's second in command.</i>

486
00:29:58,980 --> 00:30:00,654
Would you take me home, please.

487
00:30:01,045 --> 00:30:02,057
You alright?

488
00:30:04,388 --> 00:30:07,704
This is a post a naval officer dreams
of. Would you want me to turn it down?

489
00:30:08,639 --> 00:30:10,287
Would you do that if I asked you?

490
00:30:12,361 --> 00:30:13,747
No, of course wouldn't.

491
00:30:15,564 --> 00:30:18,550
It's just that I...
I don't feel very well.

492
00:30:19,844 --> 00:30:21,128
Would you take me home, please?

493
00:30:37,116 --> 00:30:38,206
Halt! Who's there?

494
00:30:39,876 --> 00:30:41,534
Say who you are or we'll fire!

495
00:30:42,299 --> 00:30:44,306
Well, I hope you don't do that, sir.
I'm a friend.

496
00:30:45,911 --> 00:30:47,495
Advance and be recognized.

497
00:30:53,266 --> 00:30:54,811
What are you doing here, ma'am?

498
00:30:56,441 --> 00:30:57,991
Well, I hope you'll excuse me,
I know

499
00:30:58,015 --> 00:31:00,100
I shouldn't be interfering
with your duties, but...

500
00:31:00,133 --> 00:31:02,087
I was just looking for my brother.

501
00:31:02,608 --> 00:31:05,830
He should be out here somewhere,
uh... Corporal Fisher.

502
00:31:07,031 --> 00:31:08,724
He's not in this detachment, ma'am.

503
00:31:09,350 --> 00:31:10,595
Might be up on the beach.

504
00:31:12,216 --> 00:31:13,709
May I please look?

505
00:31:18,106 --> 00:31:19,273
- Mosier!
- Yo?

506
00:31:19,478 --> 00:31:22,830
Lady here looking for her brother!
Pass her on through!

507
00:31:23,267 --> 00:31:24,839
- Right!
- Thank you.

508
00:31:32,376 --> 00:31:33,477
Leslie!

509
00:31:34,248 --> 00:31:36,602
Thank God! I thought I
wasn't going to get here in time.

510
00:31:36,626 --> 00:31:37,665
What's the matter?

511
00:31:38,020 --> 00:31:40,546
Nothing's the matter. It's just,
I've found

512
00:31:40,570 --> 00:31:43,033
someone else to send so
you don't have to go now.

513
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,979
Thanks, but I'll go anyway.
With two people

514
00:31:46,003 --> 00:31:48,020
there's a better chance that
one will get through.

515
00:31:48,095 --> 00:31:49,933
- But you can't go!
- What?

516
00:31:51,085 --> 00:31:52,185
What are you saying?

517
00:31:55,021 --> 00:31:56,829
You're not sending anyone else, are you?

518
00:31:58,674 --> 00:31:59,774
No, I'm not.

519
00:32:00,256 --> 00:32:02,211
<i>Catesby will be on board the Merrimack.</i>

520
00:32:02,321 --> 00:32:04,384
I don't want the Union to
sink her. So I don't want

521
00:32:04,408 --> 00:32:06,669
them to know about that
armor. That's all there is to it

522
00:32:06,749 --> 00:32:07,849
Really?

523
00:32:07,895 --> 00:32:09,349
I thought there was something more.

524
00:32:09,494 --> 00:32:12,442
One man holding another man his slave!
I thought you were against that!

525
00:32:12,517 --> 00:32:15,460
I am, of course I am! And I'll do
anything but risk Catesby's life!

526
00:32:15,604 --> 00:32:18,391
You risk your own life every day
you're in Virginia, you risk mine...

527
00:32:18,629 --> 00:32:21,244
and what about the dozens of
civilians who feed you information?

528
00:32:21,249 --> 00:32:22,348
Huh, what about them?

529
00:32:23,059 --> 00:32:25,562
Catesby can take his
chances with the rest of us.

530
00:32:26,358 --> 00:32:29,281
This is someone I've loved since I
was a child, can't you understand that?

531
00:32:29,588 --> 00:32:30,688
Betty...

532
00:32:31,388 --> 00:32:33,280
<i>Betty,
if the Navy doesn't stop the Merrimack,</i>

533
00:32:33,304 --> 00:32:35,195
she's going to steam
along the coast and

534
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,901
sink all the Union's wooden
frigates and lift the blockade!

535
00:32:38,649 --> 00:32:40,919
Then France comes in and
England comes in with everything

536
00:32:40,943 --> 00:32:42,956
the South needs to win
the war! Do you understand?

537
00:32:43,244 --> 00:32:45,280
You and I could just make the difference.

538
00:32:46,885 --> 00:32:49,703
If you take one more step towards
that water and I'll call the pickets.

539
00:32:49,773 --> 00:32:52,268
And if you're not shot now,
you'll hang later.

540
00:32:52,872 --> 00:32:54,597
Puts me right back where I started.

541
00:32:56,245 --> 00:32:59,075
Leslie, you're making me call them.
I will, I swear I will!

542
00:33:02,128 --> 00:33:03,227
Leslie!

543
00:33:03,664 --> 00:33:05,321
You said you'd do anything for me.

544
00:33:06,989 --> 00:33:11,128
Not this! This is not a favor that one
person has a right to do for another.

545
00:33:11,332 --> 00:33:12,581
It's too important.

546
00:33:12,758 --> 00:33:15,099
When did it suddenly
become so important to you?

547
00:33:16,175 --> 00:33:19,853
When I heard Lieutenant Guilford talk
to Cletus like he wouldn't talk to his dog.

548
00:33:20,413 --> 00:33:22,402
I've never heard anything
like it before.

549
00:33:26,212 --> 00:33:27,443
Or else, I never listened.

550
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:30,900
Please!

551
00:33:31,457 --> 00:33:32,639
Go ahead and call.

552
00:34:00,831 --> 00:34:04,735
Our agent saw that the 4-inch
armor was barely dented.

553
00:34:04,741 --> 00:34:09,488
The cannon was a reinforced
9-incher firing 15 pounds of powder.

554
00:34:09,581 --> 00:34:13,432
<i>Which is exactly the firepower of your
Monitor, isn't it, Mr. Ericsson?</i>

555
00:34:13,688 --> 00:34:18,055
It was, Mr. Secretary,
but I can double my ship's firing power.

556
00:34:18,060 --> 00:34:22,909
How? Mr. Ericsson, the Navy has no guns
capable of firing 30 pounds of powder.

557
00:34:23,114 --> 00:34:27,447
And there's no time to cast new ones. Your
launching date's the tenth of next month.

558
00:34:27,652 --> 00:34:29,652
I am not proposing to cast new guns,

559
00:34:29,658 --> 00:34:32,058
<i>I'm proposing to use the
Monitor's present guns.</i>

560
00:34:32,063 --> 00:34:34,946
You can't fire 30 pounds in
those guns! They'd blow up.

561
00:34:35,438 --> 00:34:38,204
<i>If you don't remember what
happened on the Princeton, I do.</i>

562
00:34:38,209 --> 00:34:41,519
Do you also remember that your
people built those guns? I didn't.

563
00:34:41,784 --> 00:34:46,114
Mr. Ericsson, why don't you
just tell us what you have in mind?

564
00:34:47,394 --> 00:34:51,167
<i>The Monitor's guns
are capable of sustaining</i>

565
00:34:51,191 --> 00:34:55,232
30-pound charges in a
battle of limited duration.

566
00:34:55,340 --> 00:34:57,062
I show you my calculations.

567
00:34:57,370 --> 00:34:59,026
Don't bother showing them to us.

568
00:35:00,473 --> 00:35:03,087
- We want to see a firing test.
- I agree.

569
00:35:05,334 --> 00:35:07,743
You will have your firing test, gentlemen.

570
00:35:11,041 --> 00:35:12,141
Dearest Betty,

571
00:35:12,648 --> 00:35:15,631
How right you were to pay no
attention when I selfishly feared

572
00:35:15,655 --> 00:35:18,490
I might never see you again
if you returned to Virginia.

573
00:35:20,084 --> 00:35:24,565
My father tells me that, thanks to you, we
are now sure our ship...

574
00:35:24,642 --> 00:35:27,074
will be the victor in
the great coming battle.

575
00:35:27,221 --> 00:35:30,063
<i>Good lord! Does this mean that the
Monitor can sink the Merrimack?</i>

576
00:35:30,389 --> 00:35:33,504
We are confident that
she will be able to protect

577
00:35:33,528 --> 00:35:36,451
other Union ships and
save many loyal lives,

578
00:35:36,746 --> 00:35:40,940
including one who's possessor still
dreams of sharing it with you.

579
00:35:42,304 --> 00:35:46,152
Dearest Betty, I have been
ordered to my first major command.

580
00:35:46,209 --> 00:35:50,066
<i>It is the Congress, part of the
blockading fleet at Hampton Roads.</i>

581
00:35:50,512 --> 00:35:53,439
<i>Which the Merrimack is sure to attack.</i>

582
00:35:54,950 --> 00:35:56,193
Betty, are you in there?

583
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,874
- Oh, yes mother.
- Opal, you're back.

584
00:35:59,139 --> 00:36:00,239
Yes, Miss Blossom.

585
00:36:00,544 --> 00:36:02,535
Oh really, Opal,
from now on you'll have to be

586
00:36:02,558 --> 00:36:04,997
satisfied with visiting
your sister just once a year!

587
00:36:05,404 --> 00:36:08,190
I can't have you hopping back
and forth whenever you plan to.

588
00:36:08,227 --> 00:36:13,347
You're right, Miss Blossom. When
you're right, you're right, Miss Blossom.

589
00:36:13,540 --> 00:36:16,026
Put out my lavender
lace for tomorrow morning.

590
00:36:16,571 --> 00:36:22,157
<i>Oh Betty! You should get something ready,
too. We're going to lunch on the Merrimack.</i>

591
00:36:22,225 --> 00:36:23,324
<i>On the Merrimack?</i>

592
00:36:23,430 --> 00:36:28,529
Yes, the Commodore... the Marquis de... oh,
what's his name?

593
00:36:29,197 --> 00:36:31,136
Oh well. He's been
dying to seeing the ship,

594
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,097
so they've invited
him and his officers...

595
00:36:33,102 --> 00:36:36,048
and they've asked a select
group of ladies to entertain them.

596
00:36:36,618 --> 00:36:41,216
Well, look pleased why don't you?
Catesby should be there.

597
00:36:51,308 --> 00:36:55,275
This ship will free the Confederacy
from the tyranny of the North.

598
00:36:55,582 --> 00:36:57,237
Nothing can stop her.

599
00:37:03,472 --> 00:37:05,415
I know I should have told you this before.

600
00:37:06,592 --> 00:37:08,993
<i>But I didn't think they
could do much against the Merrimack.</i>

601
00:37:09,969 --> 00:37:12,427
I thought it was so hopeless
they wouldn't dare fight you.

602
00:37:12,491 --> 00:37:14,343
What in God's name are you telling me now?

603
00:37:15,984 --> 00:37:17,481
That they can do something.

604
00:37:20,287 --> 00:37:23,086
I'm not sure what, but it must
be that they have more firepower.

605
00:37:24,353 --> 00:37:29,212
More than you'd expect from an
11-inch cannon firing 15-pounds of powder.

606
00:37:29,466 --> 00:37:31,634
Where'd you learn about
cannon bore and powder charges,

607
00:37:31,658 --> 00:37:33,827
now, your Baltimore finishing school?

608
00:37:34,385 --> 00:37:38,410
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
I didn't know it would hurt you.

609
00:37:41,019 --> 00:37:43,310
Please, must you question
me. Can't you just listen.

610
00:37:43,566 --> 00:37:44,666
I'm listening.

611
00:37:46,738 --> 00:37:50,021
What you have to do is make
your ship's armor stronger.

612
00:37:51,610 --> 00:37:56,247
If she can carry two layers of iron
plates, maybe she can carry three.

613
00:37:56,709 --> 00:37:59,091
I don't believe what I'm hearing!
How do you know all this?

614
00:38:01,854 --> 00:38:02,927
Leslie Harmon.

615
00:38:03,598 --> 00:38:04,698
The Yankee hero?

616
00:38:05,924 --> 00:38:09,228
The Yankee spy that you
helped to get into the Navy Yard.

617
00:38:12,222 --> 00:38:13,322
Yes.

618
00:38:14,988 --> 00:38:16,088
Yes.

619
00:38:17,256 --> 00:38:18,676
Yes, it's as simple as that to you.

620
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,446
Why don't you take a pistol out and
fire it in my stomach? It would hurt less.

621
00:38:23,775 --> 00:38:26,205
What am I supposed to do
with this information, huh? What?

622
00:38:26,741 --> 00:38:28,238
How can I go to my captain with this?

623
00:38:28,247 --> 00:38:30,284
When he asks me how did I get
it, what do I say?

624
00:38:34,627 --> 00:38:35,953
You say you got it from me.

625
00:38:37,939 --> 00:38:39,393
I guess that's what you should do.

626
00:38:40,748 --> 00:38:42,272
I guess you have to do what's right.

627
00:38:43,398 --> 00:38:45,916
You're a spy, Betty.
Don't go talking to me about what's right.

628
00:38:48,551 --> 00:38:50,918
I'm only trying to tell
you that I love you.

629
00:38:53,288 --> 00:38:55,421
I don't expect you to love me anymore.

630
00:38:55,864 --> 00:38:56,965
Excuse me, ma'am.

631
00:38:57,104 --> 00:38:59,516
- Yes?
- The Captain's compliments, Mr. Jones.

632
00:39:00,134 --> 00:39:02,242
Will you come to the gun deck at once, sir?

633
00:39:16,224 --> 00:39:19,072
Take a good look, so you'll know
her when you see her tomorrow.

634
00:39:19,137 --> 00:39:20,343
Tomorrow, captain?

635
00:39:20,441 --> 00:39:23,542
She's already sailed from New York.
She'll be here tomorrow.

636
00:39:25,439 --> 00:39:29,947
<i>Gentlemen, whether the Monitor will
be a match for you or not, we don't know.</i>

637
00:39:30,130 --> 00:39:34,785
We do know that your mission is to sink
as many blockading ships as possible.

638
00:39:35,132 --> 00:39:39,556
<i>And the only time we can be certain that
the Monitor will not interfere with you,</i>

639
00:39:39,721 --> 00:39:40,723
is today.

640
00:39:43,492 --> 00:39:45,503
Mr. Ramsey,
how long will it take to get up steam?

641
00:39:45,844 --> 00:39:47,437
- One hour, sir.
- Very well.

642
00:39:47,454 --> 00:39:49,439
Captain Buchanan, sir,
I beg your pardon, but that

643
00:39:49,463 --> 00:39:51,448
doesn't give us any time
at all to make changes.

644
00:39:52,057 --> 00:39:54,242
What sort of changes do you have in mind?

645
00:39:54,557 --> 00:39:56,865
We haven't even had a sea trial,
yet, sir. How do we know?

646
00:39:56,889 --> 00:39:59,097
I mean there's bound to be
a need for some adjustments.

647
00:39:59,359 --> 00:40:01,933
Oh, you mean such as to
the engines and the steering?

648
00:40:03,242 --> 00:40:07,330
Fair enough, we have a chief
engineer for that. Mr. Ramsey?

649
00:40:07,558 --> 00:40:11,346
Captain, we have ten miles down the river
before we go into action in the bay.

650
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,904
I'm sure we can use that
for our shakedown cruise.

651
00:40:14,959 --> 00:40:18,224
Mr. Jones,
we sail in one hour.

652
00:40:20,331 --> 00:40:21,431
Yes sir.

653
00:40:21,986 --> 00:40:24,060
All visitors ashore!

654
00:40:24,637 --> 00:40:26,996
Visitors ashore!
Captain's orders!

655
00:40:27,666 --> 00:40:29,346
All visitors ashore!

656
00:40:38,115 --> 00:40:42,771
<i>Betty! My, isn't this exciting? The
Merrimack is going out to sink the Yankees.</i>

657
00:40:42,857 --> 00:40:43,958
What Yankees?

658
00:40:43,963 --> 00:40:45,893
Well, the blockade ships in Hampton Roads.

659
00:40:45,902 --> 00:40:49,069
- And we're all going along to watch.
- How can we?

660
00:40:49,137 --> 00:40:51,672
Why, we're going along the shore, silly.

661
00:40:51,912 --> 00:40:53,857
We'll be able to see the whole battle.

662
00:41:00,258 --> 00:41:01,606
Cast off the bow line!

663
00:41:56,009 --> 00:41:59,805
- Oh, Jennifer, is your carriage here yet?
- No, ma'am, it's not.

664
00:42:00,204 --> 00:42:03,380
Well, you and your husband take that
one, up there at the end.

665
00:42:03,413 --> 00:42:04,629
Thank you.

666
00:42:07,955 --> 00:42:11,758
Blossom, Blossom,
you can go with the Gribbses.

667
00:42:12,106 --> 00:42:17,318
Yes, and Betty, would you mind,
we need someone to wait for the servants?

668
00:42:17,323 --> 00:42:19,939
- Mind what?
- Oh, directing them along the shore road.

669
00:42:19,944 --> 00:42:21,810
They're bringing picnic baskets.

670
00:42:21,815 --> 00:42:24,974
- But Betty, if you'd rather go with us...
- No, no. That's alright mother,

671
00:42:24,979 --> 00:42:27,019
I'll wait here for the picnic baskets.

672
00:42:32,615 --> 00:42:33,715
Miss Betty.

673
00:42:35,526 --> 00:42:36,617
I'm sorry to startle you.

674
00:42:37,289 --> 00:42:40,333
I thought you'd rather not have this
in front of your mother and everyone.

675
00:42:41,484 --> 00:42:43,014
You'll have to come with me, please.

676
00:42:43,790 --> 00:42:44,967
You're under arrest.

677
00:43:10,887 --> 00:43:12,280
- Jones.
- Sir.

678
00:43:13,201 --> 00:43:17,838
Look, here's our position
approaching the mouth of the Elizabeth.

679
00:43:18,540 --> 00:43:20,585
These are the positions
of the Atlantic blockading

680
00:43:20,609 --> 00:43:22,655
squadron's most powerful
ships at Hampton Roads.

681
00:43:23,372 --> 00:43:27,090
<i>Sloop-of-war Cumberland,
24 guns, and two steam frigates.</i>

682
00:43:27,504 --> 00:43:31,230
<i>Minnesota, 47 guns,
and the Congress, with 50 guns.</i>

683
00:43:31,635 --> 00:43:33,416
<i>Well,
if indeed the Congress is here, sir, it</i>

684
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,220
should have us in its
sights right about now.

685
00:43:39,552 --> 00:43:42,398
Captain Smith!
Hull, up behind the headland.

686
00:43:42,900 --> 00:43:44,716
Some kind of steamship, sir.

687
00:43:46,916 --> 00:43:49,832
Captain, I believe that
"thing" is coming down at last.

688
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,574
Damned if it doesn't look
like a swimming crocodile!

689
00:43:55,164 --> 00:43:57,006
How does it strike you, Mr. Pendergrast?

690
00:43:57,682 --> 00:44:00,182
Like it can barely float,
much less fight.

691
00:44:01,096 --> 00:44:02,238
Pipe the crew on deck.

692
00:44:30,489 --> 00:44:32,158
Detail, halt!

693
00:44:41,949 --> 00:44:44,292
Is there anything you care
to say at this time, Miss Betty?

694
00:44:46,563 --> 00:44:49,622
It's much nicer than what
I expected of a prison cell.

695
00:44:51,970 --> 00:44:54,964
The facilities are down the hall.

696
00:44:56,118 --> 00:44:58,193
The door will remain
unlocked as long as you...

697
00:44:59,337 --> 00:45:02,703
Forgive me, I'm required to say this;
as long as you don't cause any trouble.

698
00:45:04,378 --> 00:45:06,019
If there's anything I can do for you,

699
00:45:07,339 --> 00:45:09,112
you tell the sentry to call for me.

700
00:45:11,243 --> 00:45:12,343
Thank you.

701
00:45:33,624 --> 00:45:37,432
Men, coming toward us is the
great Confederate bugaboo.

702
00:45:37,556 --> 00:45:39,510
Supposed to scare us out of our wits.

703
00:45:40,291 --> 00:45:42,059
They've covered it with iron plates.

704
00:45:42,660 --> 00:45:44,476
They forgot iron can't float.

705
00:45:46,327 --> 00:45:50,018
One good broadside will knock
that clumsy monster on its beam.

706
00:45:52,982 --> 00:45:57,957
Men, this is your chance to
show your devotion to our cause.

707
00:45:58,142 --> 00:46:02,020
Our country, our
homes, and freedom.

708
00:46:02,990 --> 00:46:05,266
The eyes of the world are upon us today.

709
00:46:05,990 --> 00:46:10,031
The Confederacy expects
every man to do his duty.

710
00:46:11,798 --> 00:46:12,803
Beat to quarters.

711
00:46:16,225 --> 00:46:19,962
Stand to your guns. The Union
expects every man to do his duty!

712
00:46:20,549 --> 00:46:21,684
Beat to quarters!

713
00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:28,620
Man your port guns!

714
00:46:29,401 --> 00:46:30,572
Step lively.

715
00:46:34,654 --> 00:46:35,754
Cast loose!

716
00:46:35,755 --> 00:46:36,855
Ready on the 1st!

717
00:46:37,997 --> 00:46:39,097
Ready on the 2nd!

718
00:46:48,572 --> 00:46:49,919
Open the gunports!

719
00:47:04,943 --> 00:47:06,942
Run out.

720
00:47:41,994 --> 00:47:44,222
- Train amidship.
- Aye aye, sir.

721
00:47:48,147 --> 00:47:49,220
All port guns!

722
00:47:50,395 --> 00:47:51,495
Fire!

723
00:48:02,343 --> 00:48:03,868
We hit her square.

724
00:48:04,868 --> 00:48:06,540
And the shots bounced off.

725
00:48:14,226 --> 00:48:15,587
They can't beat us!

726
00:48:17,860 --> 00:48:20,614
<i>Captain! Are we leaving the Congress?</i>

727
00:48:20,714 --> 00:48:23,797
She can wait, we already
know she can't do us much harm.

728
00:48:23,801 --> 00:48:26,892
<i>I'm more concerned about those new
rifled cannon on the Cumberland.</i>

729
00:48:26,915 --> 00:48:28,241
We'll take her first.

730
00:48:28,631 --> 00:48:31,866
- Pilot, keep our keel out of the mud.
- Aye, Captain.

731
00:48:41,815 --> 00:48:42,919
Excuse me, Miss Betty.

732
00:48:43,429 --> 00:48:46,506
I thought you might like your
mother's maid for your servant.

733
00:48:51,855 --> 00:48:52,949
Opal!

734
00:48:53,220 --> 00:48:54,896
I'm so glad to see you.

735
00:48:55,644 --> 00:48:58,984
- You ain't mad at me, Miss Betty?
- Why in the world would I be?

736
00:48:59,296 --> 00:49:00,646
It's my fault you're in here.

737
00:49:04,226 --> 00:49:05,326
What do you mean?

738
00:49:05,448 --> 00:49:08,198
Miss Betty,
when I cross the lines coming south,

739
00:49:08,222 --> 00:49:10,969
they stop me and take all my clothes,
to search.

740
00:49:11,179 --> 00:49:12,219
Take your clothes?

741
00:49:12,243 --> 00:49:14,115
So then they give 'em
back to me and let me go

742
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,349
so I'm thinking they don't know nothin'
about that letter from Lieutenant Smith.

743
00:49:17,364 --> 00:49:21,768
But when Cletus checked my shoe, he
said it ain't the old thread like he used.

744
00:49:22,743 --> 00:49:25,194
Oh Miss Betty, they seen that letter and
they put it back.

745
00:49:25,984 --> 00:49:28,401
- And I never warned you.
- Opal, wait.

746
00:49:29,542 --> 00:49:32,200
Are you saying it was the
letter that got me arrested?

747
00:49:32,224 --> 00:49:33,572
Yes ma'am, the letter.

748
00:49:35,392 --> 00:49:36,638
Then it wasn't Catesby.

749
00:49:38,175 --> 00:49:40,323
Catesby knows about
me and he didn't tell them.

750
00:49:41,062 --> 00:49:44,283
Opal, he still loves me.
Doesn't that mean he still loves me?

751
00:49:44,866 --> 00:49:47,261
How you figure loves going
to do you any good in here?

752
00:49:47,991 --> 00:49:51,655
That letter doesn't prove much,
Joe was careful about what he wrote.

753
00:49:52,052 --> 00:49:54,044
They can't be planning
anything horrible for me

754
00:49:54,049 --> 00:49:57,055
or they wouldn't have given me this
nice room with this big fine window.

755
00:49:57,441 --> 00:49:59,733
Well, maybe you ain't
looked out that fine window yet.

756
00:50:04,622 --> 00:50:06,164
Good Lord, a gallows.

757
00:50:11,696 --> 00:50:13,139
Whatever became of Betty?

758
00:50:13,163 --> 00:50:16,172
I suppose she went home,
she wasn't feeling so well.

759
00:50:16,177 --> 00:50:17,276
Already.

760
00:50:30,049 --> 00:50:31,492
- Mr. Simms!
- Sir!

761
00:50:31,496 --> 00:50:32,588
Give 'em a broadside!

762
00:50:33,827 --> 00:50:34,928
Fire!

763
00:50:50,861 --> 00:50:51,962
Fire!

764
00:50:56,413 --> 00:50:57,513
Fire!

765
00:51:31,006 --> 00:51:32,022
There she goes!

766
00:52:15,905 --> 00:52:17,089
So far, so good.

767
00:52:17,884 --> 00:52:19,091
<i>Back to the Congress.</i>

768
00:52:27,139 --> 00:52:29,125
Are you a praying man, Mr. Pendergrast?

769
00:52:30,987 --> 00:52:32,136
I am now.

770
00:53:04,331 --> 00:53:05,431
Fire!

771
00:53:13,534 --> 00:53:14,635
Fire!

772
00:53:19,405 --> 00:53:20,505
Fire!

773
00:53:33,770 --> 00:53:34,871
Fire!

774
00:53:38,980 --> 00:53:40,222
Stand fast men!

775
00:53:47,136 --> 00:53:48,702
Keep up your fire!

776
00:54:02,816 --> 00:54:04,117
Keep up your fire!

777
00:54:06,012 --> 00:54:07,112
Keep up...!

778
00:54:23,075 --> 00:54:24,175
Captain!

779
00:54:42,050 --> 00:54:44,833
We have two choices,
strike the colors or

780
00:54:44,858 --> 00:54:47,579
hold out and see every
manjack killed. Opinions?

781
00:54:48,470 --> 00:54:51,641
- We won't survive another broadside.
- Surrender, sir.

782
00:54:51,646 --> 00:54:53,504
- Strike the colors, sir.
- Very well.

783
00:54:55,916 --> 00:54:57,315
Strike the colors!

784
00:55:10,519 --> 00:55:13,088
- Cease fire!
- Cease fire!

785
00:55:13,093 --> 00:55:15,188
Cease fire!
And they have surrendered!

786
00:55:28,903 --> 00:55:30,450
Stand by your guns, gentlemen!

787
00:55:30,455 --> 00:55:33,188
And be ready to resume
firing on my command!

788
00:55:39,071 --> 00:55:40,171
Seal the ports!

789
00:55:41,270 --> 00:55:42,370
Seal the ports!

790
00:55:45,883 --> 00:55:47,822
That's the Union troops,
Captain! In Newport

791
00:55:47,846 --> 00:55:49,616
News Point. That'd
be General Mansfield!

792
00:55:50,571 --> 00:55:53,004
<i>They can't be firing, now that the
Congress has surrendered!</i>

793
00:55:53,092 --> 00:55:56,280
From what I've heard about old Mansfield,
he's most likely back there saying...

794
00:55:56,284 --> 00:55:58,641
<i>"maybe the Congress has surrendered,
but I sure haven't."</i>

795
00:55:59,234 --> 00:56:02,359
It's outrageous!
A violation of every military code!

796
00:56:05,378 --> 00:56:08,456
Captain, sir! Captain!
Captain, don't go up there, sir!

797
00:56:09,108 --> 00:56:10,208
Captain!

798
00:56:22,908 --> 00:56:24,007
Captain!

799
00:56:24,767 --> 00:56:25,867
Easy. Easy. Easy.

800
00:56:28,156 --> 00:56:29,190
I've got his leg.

801
00:56:30,372 --> 00:56:31,418
Dammit! Stupid thing.

802
00:56:32,107 --> 00:56:33,230
Yes sir.

803
00:56:34,790 --> 00:56:35,891
Curses!

804
00:56:37,552 --> 00:56:38,908
Get a cloth for his leg!

805
00:56:41,851 --> 00:56:45,062
Jones, you take over command.
Resume firing.

806
00:56:46,055 --> 00:56:49,131
<i>Pump hot shot into the Congress.
Don't you leave her until she's burning!</i>

807
00:56:50,825 --> 00:56:51,925
Yes sir.

808
00:57:06,479 --> 00:57:08,963
Column right! March.

809
00:57:11,826 --> 00:57:14,430
Column left! March.

810
00:57:16,616 --> 00:57:18,616
Detail! Halt.

811
00:57:28,064 --> 00:57:30,568
I'm required to ask
you one last time.

812
00:57:30,592 --> 00:57:33,098
Your full and true name is
Spencer Kellogg Brown?

813
00:57:33,103 --> 00:57:34,171
That's correct, sir.

814
00:57:35,469 --> 00:57:36,809
Whenever you're ready, Mr. Brown.

815
00:57:39,103 --> 00:57:40,169
Right face!

816
00:57:53,094 --> 00:57:54,821
Would you remove your hat please,
Mr. Brown?

817
00:57:54,845 --> 00:57:55,942
Certainly, sir.

818
00:58:11,867 --> 00:58:13,013
Where do you all come from?

819
00:58:14,401 --> 00:58:16,527
Knowing what you risk,
yet willing to risk it.

820
00:58:18,410 --> 00:58:20,000
May I shake the hand of a brave man?

821
00:58:23,138 --> 00:58:25,343
Thank you Lieutenant Guilford
for all of your kindness.

822
00:58:59,811 --> 00:59:02,593
It'd be funny if they hanged you
after what you tried to do for them.

823
00:59:05,681 --> 00:59:07,129
What are you talking about, Opal?

824
00:59:08,759 --> 00:59:09,812
Nothing, Miss Betty.

825
00:59:11,461 --> 00:59:16,088
<i>Except... first you send Master Leslie up
north with the message about the Merrimack,</i>

826
00:59:17,100 --> 00:59:18,550
and then you try to stop him.

827
00:59:20,020 --> 00:59:22,188
How did you know about that,
you were in Washington?

828
00:59:23,424 --> 00:59:26,077
I know some from Cletus when
he takes me to fetch your clothes.

829
00:59:26,662 --> 00:59:29,205
And some from the upstairs
maid and the downstairs maid.

830
00:59:29,742 --> 00:59:31,628
You come home like a
crazy woman that night!

831
00:59:31,977 --> 00:59:34,618
Who knows where's Master Leslie?
Who's seen him?

832
00:59:34,623 --> 00:59:36,955
Who's gonna hitch up the wagon
and take me to the beach?

833
00:59:37,152 --> 00:59:38,507
No! Just through a saddle on 'im!

834
00:59:38,927 --> 00:59:40,261
Like a crazy woman.

835
00:59:43,130 --> 00:59:45,992
Are you trying to say that I shouldn't
have tried to stop Leslie?

836
00:59:46,849 --> 00:59:51,269
The Lord he giveth, and the Lord
he taketh away. But you ain't the Lord.

837
00:59:55,299 --> 00:59:58,225
It's a good thing I'm not.
Because you're right.

838
00:59:59,753 --> 01:00:01,230
I was out of my mind that night.

839
01:00:01,981 --> 01:00:04,768
I thought I was so brave and
strong fighting for the cause.

840
01:00:05,651 --> 01:00:08,096
But when it seemed that I
might get Catesby killed...

841
01:00:08,612 --> 01:00:12,157
Then the cause was nothing.
No more than smoke.

842
01:00:14,371 --> 01:00:15,472
Yes ma'am.

843
01:00:17,833 --> 01:00:19,541
You say that as though you don't agree.

844
01:00:20,867 --> 01:00:22,767
But would you be so brave and strong...

845
01:00:23,288 --> 01:00:26,645
if it meant getting Cletus
killed going through the lines?

846
01:00:26,735 --> 01:00:27,935
Yes ma'am.

847
01:00:28,631 --> 01:00:29,952
I don't believe you!

848
01:00:30,252 --> 01:00:33,868
I'd just as soon see Cletus dead as see
him a slave the rest of his life.

849
01:00:41,231 --> 01:00:45,230
Well, I guess I just don't
see things as clearly as you do.

850
01:00:45,771 --> 01:00:46,871
I reckon you don't.

851
01:00:47,735 --> 01:00:50,092
But you wouldn't have that
problem if you was born black.

852
01:00:59,488 --> 01:01:01,153
Well, she's burning nicely.

853
01:01:03,776 --> 01:01:06,828
<i>Now on to the rest of our mission, Pilot
Set us a course for the Minnesota.</i>

854
01:01:12,174 --> 01:01:13,364
She's run herself aground!

855
01:01:16,497 --> 01:01:17,596
Are you sure?

856
01:01:19,377 --> 01:01:21,041
That's Forest Bar she's stuck on.

857
01:01:21,627 --> 01:01:23,666
There's not enough water
over there for a ship the

858
01:01:23,690 --> 01:01:25,949
<i>size of the Minnesota at high tide,
not to mention now.</i>

859
01:01:26,855 --> 01:01:29,924
Well, let's get over to her while
there's still daylight to fire the guns by.

860
01:01:29,999 --> 01:01:33,058
<i>Mr. Jones, you draw 22 feet of water.
That's near as much as he Minnesota,</i>

861
01:01:33,063 --> 01:01:36,990
You head over there now, you'll more
than likely get yourself stuck in the mud.

862
01:01:37,384 --> 01:01:39,441
I can't fire accurately
at this distance.

863
01:01:43,484 --> 01:01:45,957
On the other hand,
it would be poor judgment to put my ship at

864
01:01:45,982 --> 01:01:48,554
<i>risk now, when the Minnesota
will still be there in the morning?</i>

865
01:01:52,150 --> 01:01:54,768
- We'll spend the night at Sewell's Point.
- Aye, captain.

866
01:02:05,882 --> 01:02:07,001
Secretary Stanton.

867
01:02:11,505 --> 01:02:14,376
<i>125 men killed on the Cumberland.</i>

868
01:02:15,688 --> 01:02:18,330
<i>- And on the Congress, how many?
- About the same number.</i>

869
01:02:20,333 --> 01:02:21,933
250 dead.

870
01:02:22,672 --> 01:02:26,300
And what of the Rebel casualties?
Almost none from what we can gather.

871
01:02:28,188 --> 01:02:31,624
Gentlemen, this is the worst day in
the history of the United States Navy.

872
01:02:32,135 --> 01:02:34,271
And tomorrow will be more still.

873
01:02:35,769 --> 01:02:38,688
<i>- What is going to stop the Merrimack?
- The Monitor, we hope.</i>

874
01:02:38,734 --> 01:02:41,681
<i>The Monitor!
A cheese box on a raft!</i>

875
01:02:41,788 --> 01:02:44,144
<i>Two guns against
the Merrimack's ten!</i>

876
01:02:44,651 --> 01:02:48,177
That monster could steam up
the Potomac and shell us tomorrow.

877
01:02:48,182 --> 01:02:50,070
Stanton, it's too early to panic.

878
01:02:51,174 --> 01:02:54,143
At least have a row of
loaded barges sunk across the

879
01:02:54,167 --> 01:02:57,133
<i>river to make damn sure
the Merrimack can't get up!</i>

880
01:02:57,143 --> 01:02:59,452
If we block the river we
block our own shipping, too,

881
01:02:59,457 --> 01:03:01,965
<i>and if the Monitor does stop the Merrimack,
what then!</i>

882
01:03:02,139 --> 01:03:04,390
<i>- Well, where is the Monitor?
- Commodore Smith.</i>

883
01:03:10,548 --> 01:03:13,204
<i>The Monitor was last sighted
off the Delaware/Maryland border,</i>

884
01:03:13,228 --> 01:03:15,532
floundering in a very heavy weather.

885
01:03:15,542 --> 01:03:18,179
In other words, she may already
be at the bottom of the ocean.

886
01:03:18,199 --> 01:03:20,632
<i>I'm sure the Monitor
is still afloat.</i>

887
01:03:20,795 --> 01:03:24,873
I look for her to be the veritable
sling with a stone that smites the...

888
01:03:24,878 --> 01:03:26,903
<i>the Merrimack Philistine in the forehead.</i>

889
01:03:26,908 --> 01:03:32,032
Mr. President, do you really have that much
faith in Ericsson's untested experiment?

890
01:03:32,592 --> 01:03:36,730
I have that much faith in providence
which did not create this great Union...

891
01:03:36,735 --> 01:03:39,768
to see it be destroyed by
the invention of a weapon.

892
01:03:40,635 --> 01:03:44,642
<i>If the Monitor doesn't stop the
Merrimack, something else will.</i>

893
01:03:45,592 --> 01:03:48,798
- Good night gentlemen.
- Good night, Mr. President.

894
01:03:54,259 --> 01:03:56,628
Commodore, time to go home.

895
01:03:57,639 --> 01:03:59,058
My son is dead.

896
01:03:59,910 --> 01:04:04,831
Oh no, don't say that.
We have casualty estimates, but no names.

897
01:04:05,965 --> 01:04:07,684
<i>The Congress surrendered.</i>

898
01:04:09,074 --> 01:04:11,303
My son would never surrender his ship.

899
01:04:17,119 --> 01:04:18,389
Joe is dead.

900
01:04:21,635 --> 01:04:23,387
I'm sorry to bring you the bad news.

901
01:04:24,198 --> 01:04:25,261
But there's no doubt.

902
01:04:25,862 --> 01:04:29,227
We have it from a wounded sailor pulled
out of the water by one of our boats.

903
01:04:36,019 --> 01:04:37,128
Dear Joe.

904
01:04:40,466 --> 01:04:43,947
He thought that if I came back,
he might never see me again.

905
01:04:45,685 --> 01:04:47,578
But he never thought it would be like this.

906
01:04:55,021 --> 01:04:56,121
Well...

907
01:04:58,254 --> 01:05:02,551
You obviously came in here to tell
me it could happen the way Joe thought.

908
01:05:03,238 --> 01:05:04,566
Isn't that right, Lieutenant?

909
01:05:04,983 --> 01:05:06,083
Yes.

910
01:05:07,402 --> 01:05:09,042
And no, that depends on you.

911
01:05:10,975 --> 01:05:12,200
What is it you want?

912
01:05:18,050 --> 01:05:22,134
Names,
I need to know who all's been helping you.

913
01:05:22,585 --> 01:05:23,685
Not Opal.

914
01:05:24,524 --> 01:05:27,010
She had no idea that letter
was in that shoe, I swear.

915
01:05:28,126 --> 01:05:31,091
We're not too concerned with black
couriers, the woods are full of them.

916
01:05:32,550 --> 01:05:35,206
I think we should begin with the person
who told Leslie Harmon...

917
01:05:36,054 --> 01:05:38,048
the armor test was a decoy.

918
01:05:39,522 --> 01:05:41,179
How would I know that?

919
01:05:41,672 --> 01:05:42,991
Ask Leslie, wherever he is.

920
01:05:43,015 --> 01:05:45,418
You know everything
that Leslie Harmon knows.

921
01:05:46,275 --> 01:05:49,248
You helped him make his so-called
escape from the Union prison.

922
01:05:50,022 --> 01:05:52,046
And you helped him get
back over to the Union side.

923
01:05:55,286 --> 01:05:56,614
Who told you that?

924
01:05:57,020 --> 01:05:59,801
Our agents in Washington
and our pickets on the beach.

925
01:06:01,116 --> 01:06:03,843
Your agents, and pickets.

926
01:06:05,558 --> 01:06:06,784
No real people.

927
01:06:07,936 --> 01:06:09,009
Your bluffing.

928
01:06:11,296 --> 01:06:14,133
You've been spying on Gosport since
the day we took the Yard!

929
01:06:14,232 --> 01:06:16,451
You collected information from
the people who work here.

930
01:06:17,092 --> 01:06:18,732
Naval personnel or civilians.

931
01:06:18,737 --> 01:06:20,673
And you gave this
information over to the Union.

932
01:06:22,195 --> 01:06:26,363
No one would believe it of you to this day
if you hadn't brought Harmon into it.

933
01:06:30,029 --> 01:06:33,134
You wouldn't want to frighten a helpless
woman, now, would you Lieutenant?

934
01:06:34,429 --> 01:06:36,370
All you have against me is Joe's letter.

935
01:06:37,037 --> 01:06:38,194
And what does that prove?

936
01:06:39,174 --> 01:06:41,379
<i>That he hoped the Monitor
would sink the Merrimack?</i>

937
01:06:43,686 --> 01:06:44,786
He thanked me.

938
01:06:45,806 --> 01:06:46,901
But what did I do?

939
01:06:47,857 --> 01:06:50,900
Maybe I just sent him a bottle of
French champagne for the launching.

940
01:06:53,035 --> 01:06:55,995
You want to keep saying that
as you climb the thirteen steps?

941
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,464
Or will you give me
your Navy yard contacts?

942
01:07:03,003 --> 01:07:06,024
Well, actually I don't have
any Navy Yard contacts.

943
01:07:06,858 --> 01:07:07,958
Except you.

944
01:07:18,587 --> 01:07:19,981
What is that glow out there?

945
01:07:23,245 --> 01:07:26,409
<i>That's the Congress.
Burning like a hay stack.</i>

946
01:07:27,210 --> 01:07:29,733
<i>And the Cumberland's on the bottom,
and tomorrow the</i>

947
01:07:29,756 --> 01:07:32,277
<i>Minnesota and every other
Union ship in Hampton Roads.</i>

948
01:07:37,294 --> 01:07:40,178
It would be a bitter thing to
die for a lost cause.

949
01:07:43,437 --> 01:07:44,654
Well, if I have to...

950
01:07:46,095 --> 01:07:48,842
I hope you'll be as nice about it
as you were for that boy today.

951
01:07:51,632 --> 01:07:52,732
Don't count on it.

952
01:07:53,625 --> 01:07:55,543
He was a soldier fighting for his side.

953
01:07:57,407 --> 01:07:58,814
You're a traitor to yours.

954
01:08:18,849 --> 01:08:21,868
We have slow leakage at the
bow, where we took some hard hits,

955
01:08:21,956 --> 01:08:24,403
stanchions, railings,
boat davits shot away.

956
01:08:24,922 --> 01:08:26,715
Smokestack's cut to pieces.

957
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:30,231
There's a number of indentations in
the iron and some of the plates are loose,

958
01:08:30,235 --> 01:08:32,826
- but they're still holding.
- Well, it don't sound too serious.

959
01:08:43,203 --> 01:08:44,493
What is it, Mr. Jones?

960
01:08:51,222 --> 01:08:53,918
<i>It's the Congress, Mr. Ramsey,
she's still in flames.</i>

961
01:08:54,996 --> 01:08:56,142
Good day's work, sir.

962
01:08:57,223 --> 01:08:58,816
Yes, but it's not over.

963
01:09:25,771 --> 01:09:28,726
<i>Van Brunt of the Minnesota.
Are you in command here?</i>

964
01:09:28,886 --> 01:09:30,546
I am, sir. John Worden.

965
01:09:31,816 --> 01:09:34,406
- Your orders, Captain.
- Thank you, sir.

966
01:09:35,565 --> 01:09:38,791
- My executive officer, Lieutenant Green.
- Captain Van Brunt.

967
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:45,315
<i>My orders are simply to protect your ship
from the Merrimack, and this we will do.</i>

968
01:09:45,577 --> 01:09:48,844
It won't be so easy while we're
aground on this damned mud bank.

969
01:09:49,089 --> 01:09:51,465
Any chance the tugs can
have you off by morning, sir?

970
01:09:51,567 --> 01:09:55,489
None. We are unloading tons of provisions,
but that will take us the rest of the night

971
01:09:55,494 --> 01:09:57,530
the tide won't be high enough until noon.

972
01:09:57,915 --> 01:10:00,656
<i>I'm sure the Merrimack will
come back to us before then.</i>

973
01:10:01,117 --> 01:10:03,298
We'll try to keep her busy, Captain.

974
01:10:03,397 --> 01:10:07,453
We do have a problem. We need a pilot
to steer us through these shoals.

975
01:10:07,970 --> 01:10:11,257
How can we find a local seaman
who is not a rebel sympathizer.

976
01:10:11,730 --> 01:10:15,038
Well, your orders were sent with a
man who volunteered just for that job.

977
01:10:15,485 --> 01:10:17,773
He says you know him from
the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

978
01:10:18,091 --> 01:10:19,707
You may come down now.

979
01:10:30,457 --> 01:10:32,646
Quartermaster mate Harmon, reporting, sir.

980
01:10:33,507 --> 01:10:35,222
Harmon! Do you know these waters?

981
01:10:35,632 --> 01:10:38,496
Like my mother's face, sir.
I was stationed in Gosport two years.

982
01:10:38,797 --> 01:10:42,052
You never did get a commission, though,
in the Rebel Navy, did you, Harmon?

983
01:10:42,057 --> 01:10:44,133
No, sir, I couldn't meet their standards.

984
01:10:44,369 --> 01:10:47,201
Well, I'm going to commission
you Midshipman, right now.

985
01:10:47,277 --> 01:10:49,961
Mr. Harmon, welcome aboard.

986
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:51,534
Thank you, sir!

987
01:11:04,664 --> 01:11:06,166
We have steam up, Captain.

988
01:11:06,610 --> 01:11:08,205
Thank you, Mr. Ramsey.
Weigh anchor!

989
01:11:10,352 --> 01:11:11,452
Weigh anchor!

990
01:11:12,007 --> 01:11:13,107
Weigh anchor!

991
01:11:16,993 --> 01:11:18,918
Still there. Very good,
Pilot Patten, now let's

992
01:11:18,942 --> 01:11:20,867
see how close you can
get us to her this morning.

993
01:11:20,872 --> 01:11:23,308
Aye aye, Captain.
Port! Five degrees.

994
01:11:24,097 --> 01:11:25,639
Port, five degrees.

995
01:11:25,739 --> 01:11:26,991
What in God's name is that?

996
01:11:31,728 --> 01:11:33,484
That is the test we face.

997
01:11:35,348 --> 01:11:36,550
<i>That is the Monitor.</i>

998
01:11:39,319 --> 01:11:41,449
<i>- Set a course to close the Monitor.
- Aye.</i>

999
01:11:41,814 --> 01:11:43,122
Starboard! Ten degrees.

1000
01:11:44,257 --> 01:11:45,357
Get below.

1001
01:12:03,925 --> 01:12:08,314
Gentlemen, the beast,
spawned by Satan to destroy the Union.

1002
01:12:09,963 --> 01:12:13,218
Now we'll find out if John Ericsson is
a match for the Devil.

1003
01:12:14,926 --> 01:12:17,359
<i>Mr. Harmon,
stand directly for Merrimack.</i>

1004
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:20,282
<i>I want to engage her as far
from the Minnesota as possible.</i>

1005
01:12:20,317 --> 01:12:21,418
Yes sir!

1006
01:12:23,315 --> 01:12:25,151
Starboard, forty degrees.

1007
01:12:26,206 --> 01:12:28,026
Starboard, forty degrees, aye sir.

1008
01:12:35,206 --> 01:12:37,366
Hard to port, Mr. Williams.

1009
01:12:38,088 --> 01:12:40,887
Mr. Simms, I'm turning to give
you a bearing for a broadside.

1010
01:12:41,188 --> 01:12:42,288
Aye aye, sir.

1011
01:12:45,764 --> 01:12:49,235
Captain, from what I picked up at Gosport,
you could run rings around that monster.

1012
01:12:49,839 --> 01:12:52,725
<i>It takes the Merrimack a half
hour to make a 180 degree turn.</i>

1013
01:12:52,963 --> 01:12:54,063
Thank you.

1014
01:12:54,818 --> 01:12:55,996
Steady as she goes.

1015
01:12:58,811 --> 01:13:01,020
- Williams.
- We're hard over, sir.

1016
01:13:01,024 --> 01:13:02,962
- She's turning as fast as she can.
- Mr. Ramsey!

1017
01:13:03,893 --> 01:13:06,052
Ramsey, what is the matter with this ship?

1018
01:13:06,076 --> 01:13:09,036
Yesterday she was sluggish enough,
but today she steers like Noah's Ark.

1019
01:13:09,136 --> 01:13:11,274
Well, today sir, she's leaking at the bow.

1020
01:13:13,137 --> 01:13:15,124
All right, Mr. Simms,
if you can manage a shot

1021
01:13:15,148 --> 01:13:17,135
with just your bow gun,
go ahead and take it.

1022
01:13:17,236 --> 01:13:18,418
I want to see what happens.

1023
01:13:18,518 --> 01:13:20,291
Leading battery! Starboard vent!

1024
01:13:20,728 --> 01:13:21,735
Close vent!

1025
01:13:25,127 --> 01:13:26,227
Rotate gun.

1026
01:13:38,267 --> 01:13:39,273
Open vent!

1027
01:13:47,864 --> 01:13:49,603
Run out! Heave!

1028
01:13:58,056 --> 01:14:00,296
Can we lift a cover on one of the gunports,
Mr. Green?

1029
01:14:00,301 --> 01:14:02,648
Not till we get the Captain's
order to commence firing.

1030
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:07,694
It's bad enough... to wait,
why can't we even see out?

1031
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:11,877
The first shell could turn
this tin can... into our coffin.

1032
01:14:13,008 --> 01:14:15,362
- I mean we don't even...
- That will be all, Mr. Keeler.

1033
01:14:30,979 --> 01:14:32,079
Fire!

1034
01:14:37,312 --> 01:14:38,678
Up here, sir! It hit up here!

1035
01:14:38,883 --> 01:14:39,970
Did the shot come through?

1036
01:14:39,994 --> 01:14:42,806
No, sir, it didn't come through
but it made a big dent. Look at this.

1037
01:14:42,813 --> 01:14:46,195
Mr. Green! The Captain says to
clear your ports and commence firing.

1038
01:14:46,416 --> 01:14:49,524
Mr. Keeler! The speaking tube's not
working, Captain says your it.

1039
01:14:55,256 --> 01:14:56,356
Fire!

1040
01:14:59,482 --> 01:15:03,527
Mr. Ramsey! I have got to turn
faster, give me more power!

1041
01:15:03,532 --> 01:15:05,017
Aye, Mr. Jones!

1042
01:15:08,530 --> 01:15:11,519
Faster! We need more power!
Put your backs into it!

1043
01:15:20,273 --> 01:15:22,963
Mr. Keeler! Ask the Captain
how our shots are landing.

1044
01:15:22,968 --> 01:15:24,478
The turret turns and I can't see.

1045
01:15:25,230 --> 01:15:26,330
Fire!

1046
01:15:29,659 --> 01:15:31,499
- Mr. Simms!
- Sir!

1047
01:15:31,504 --> 01:15:33,481
Most of your shots
are landing in the water!

1048
01:15:33,557 --> 01:15:36,503
Captain, half that thing's underwater.
There's nothing to shoot at!

1049
01:15:43,759 --> 01:15:47,403
Captain says good shot, Mr. Green!
He saw iron sliding from her side!

1050
01:15:57,943 --> 01:16:00,448
Captain,
I suggest circling her to the west,

1051
01:16:00,453 --> 01:16:02,856
She draws 22 feet,
there's not that much water there.

1052
01:16:02,949 --> 01:16:05,995
Thank you, Mr. Harmon.
Come hard starboard.

1053
01:16:06,341 --> 01:16:07,828
Turn to port, 30 degrees.

1054
01:16:07,962 --> 01:16:10,567
- Captain, it gets shallow there.
- I have to line up my guns.

1055
01:16:10,899 --> 01:16:12,406
Captain,
we could turn the other way.

1056
01:16:12,430 --> 01:16:14,509
It'd take forever,
Williams. Steady as she goes.

1057
01:16:19,866 --> 01:16:22,835
Full astern!
We're aground! I need full speed astern!

1058
01:16:32,795 --> 01:16:34,233
Look there, she's aground, sir!

1059
01:16:34,598 --> 01:16:37,813
<i>Sir, the iron armor on the Merrimack
only goes three feet below the waterline!</i>

1060
01:16:37,908 --> 01:16:39,717
The wooden hull is pretty near exposed.

1061
01:16:39,959 --> 01:16:41,528
Mr. Simms. Why aren't you firing?

1062
01:16:41,552 --> 01:16:45,565
Captain, that tin can is at an angle
where we can't bring a single gun to bear.

1063
01:16:47,449 --> 01:16:50,239
Mr. Green! The Captain
says aim for the waterline!

1064
01:16:50,245 --> 01:16:51,345
Run out!

1065
01:16:54,984 --> 01:16:56,084
Fire!

1066
01:16:56,206 --> 01:16:57,305
Second cannon!

1067
01:16:59,175 --> 01:17:00,275
Fire!

1068
01:17:04,164 --> 01:17:07,146
Mr. Ramsey. You have got
to get us off this mud bank!

1069
01:17:07,151 --> 01:17:11,001
- The engines are full astern!
- Raise the steam pressure, then.

1070
01:17:11,246 --> 01:17:14,321
We're shoveling all the coal
the furnaces will take!

1071
01:17:14,630 --> 01:17:19,445
Well, then throw in whatever burns
faster and hotter than coal, Mr. Ramsey!

1072
01:17:19,450 --> 01:17:20,711
We have got to risk it!

1073
01:17:20,981 --> 01:17:22,081
Aye sir!

1074
01:17:22,271 --> 01:17:24,938
Get all the cotton waste
and put it on the fire!

1075
01:17:25,110 --> 01:17:26,582
Put wood on the fire!

1076
01:17:27,022 --> 01:17:31,457
Damnation! If it's risk he wants,
pour on turpentine!

1077
01:17:45,784 --> 01:17:49,724
Mr. Green says the turret machinery
is rusted from yesterday's sea water.

1078
01:17:50,164 --> 01:17:52,668
- It's hard for him to aim.
- Tell him I'll bring him in close.

1079
01:17:53,070 --> 01:17:55,499
He's to fire both guns
as rapidly as possible.

1080
01:18:00,873 --> 01:18:06,299
- Mr. Ramsey, more pressure!
- Sir, we are at red line now!

1081
01:18:06,364 --> 01:18:09,784
One more pound,
and the safety valve will open!

1082
01:18:09,789 --> 01:18:12,529
Tie it closed, Ramsey!
Tie the valve closed!

1083
01:18:38,138 --> 01:18:39,167
Come on! Pull off!

1084
01:19:09,501 --> 01:19:12,357
Mr. Ramsey! Come up, please.

1085
01:19:13,582 --> 01:19:15,741
Mr. Simms! Stand by
your guns. Mr. Simms.

1086
01:19:15,765 --> 01:19:17,924
I'm turning to give you a
port beam broadside.

1087
01:19:25,356 --> 01:19:26,456
Fire!

1088
01:19:59,801 --> 01:20:00,901
Fire!

1089
01:20:02,119 --> 01:20:03,219
Fire!

1090
01:20:07,008 --> 01:20:08,108
Mr. Ramsey!

1091
01:20:09,232 --> 01:20:11,855
We don't seem to be making much
of an impression. What if we ram?

1092
01:20:11,860 --> 01:20:13,836
We'd start leaking more at the bow.

1093
01:20:13,841 --> 01:20:15,978
- Couldn't the pumps handle it?
- I don't know, sir.

1094
01:20:15,983 --> 01:20:18,333
Mr. Simms!
Prepare yourself, we're going to ram!

1095
01:20:26,517 --> 01:20:28,517
- Mr. Raleigh!
- Aye sir!

1096
01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:31,835
As we go by, you aim for the pilot house!

1097
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:32,940
Aye, sir!

1098
01:20:39,571 --> 01:20:41,935
Captain, look to starboard!
She's turning straight for us!

1099
01:20:46,299 --> 01:20:48,970
Mr. Keeler, tell Mr. Green
they're going to ram us.

1100
01:20:49,203 --> 01:20:51,780
Wait for the last second
and then give 'em both guns.

1101
01:21:04,199 --> 01:21:05,917
- Fire!
- Fire!

1102
01:21:27,213 --> 01:21:30,141
- Run up, she's swinging away!
- Yes sir!

1103
01:21:34,126 --> 01:21:35,248
No shot!

1104
01:21:37,041 --> 01:21:40,237
It might work better for us.
Steer directly for her.

1105
01:21:40,312 --> 01:21:41,892
<i>You going to ram the Merrimack, sir?</i>

1106
01:21:41,986 --> 01:21:45,916
Not the monster, just its tail. If we
can hit the rudder, she'll be helpless.

1107
01:21:45,929 --> 01:21:47,462
Steady as she goes.

1108
01:21:55,173 --> 01:21:56,781
She's making for our stern.

1109
01:21:57,674 --> 01:21:59,847
She's coming right under your gun.
Stand by!

1110
01:22:05,272 --> 01:22:06,372
Fire!

1111
01:22:08,487 --> 01:22:10,013
- Captain!
- My eyes!

1112
01:22:10,562 --> 01:22:13,520
- Sir!
- I can't see.

1113
01:22:18,230 --> 01:22:21,171
Mr. Keeler, go tell Mr. Green.
Quartermaster, come north, due north.

1114
01:22:21,176 --> 01:22:22,572
That'll put us in shallow water!

1115
01:22:22,901 --> 01:22:25,082
Captain,
let's get you down to your cabin, sir.

1116
01:22:25,411 --> 01:22:29,361
- Did we... Did we hit the rudder?
- No, sir, we just missed it.

1117
01:22:29,563 --> 01:22:30,662
Damn!

1118
01:22:35,547 --> 01:22:37,448
She's turning away, Pilot.
Where's she headed?

1119
01:22:37,720 --> 01:22:40,049
For shallow water, Captain.
Where we can't follow.

1120
01:22:40,134 --> 01:22:41,334
Well then, she's quitting?

1121
01:22:42,987 --> 01:22:45,360
- Giving up the fight?
- Looks that way.

1122
01:22:47,399 --> 01:22:50,330
Well, all right, let's finish what we
came here to do in the first place.

1123
01:22:50,354 --> 01:22:52,131
<i>Pilot,
put us on a course for the Minnesota.</i>

1124
01:22:52,181 --> 01:22:55,646
<i>We can't get near the Minnesota, Captain,
not unless you want to run aground again.</i>

1125
01:22:55,894 --> 01:22:57,781
The tide's runnin' out real fast, Captain.

1126
01:22:57,830 --> 01:22:59,877
You don't head back to
Sewell's Point right now,

1127
01:22:59,900 --> 01:23:01,768
you're not going to get
over that bar tonight.

1128
01:23:13,237 --> 01:23:14,337
Mr. Ramsey.

1129
01:23:18,015 --> 01:23:20,314
What are our chances,
should we ground again?

1130
01:23:20,327 --> 01:23:21,984
We could split open at the bow.

1131
01:23:21,989 --> 01:23:24,925
We have no smokestack left,
no draft for the furnaces.

1132
01:23:25,173 --> 01:23:28,250
No proper head of steam to keep
the pumps working at top speed.

1133
01:23:34,461 --> 01:23:37,395
And it should also be considered
that these brave men are exhausted.

1134
01:23:38,137 --> 01:23:40,342
Very well,
we will head back to Gosport for repairs.

1135
01:23:42,823 --> 01:23:45,920
She's your ship, Mr. Green.
Don't worry about me.

1136
01:23:47,595 --> 01:23:50,332
<i>Do what you have to
do to save the Minnesota.</i>

1137
01:23:57,667 --> 01:24:00,218
Mr. Green, look! She's turned away!

1138
01:24:01,163 --> 01:24:03,601
She's quitting. She's giving up!

1139
01:24:04,608 --> 01:24:05,972
Do you want to go after her, sir?

1140
01:24:07,150 --> 01:24:11,222
<i>No. Our orders are to protect the
Minnesota. Take us back to her side.</i>

1141
01:24:12,948 --> 01:24:14,830
We saved that ship, Mr. Harmon.

1142
01:24:14,927 --> 01:24:16,354
Yes sir, we saved her.

1143
01:24:22,222 --> 01:24:23,877
So I guess it was all worth it.

1144
01:24:50,531 --> 01:24:52,308
To hear the Navy tell it Mr. President,

1145
01:24:52,876 --> 01:24:55,511
this peculiar little thing
scored a great victory.

1146
01:24:56,171 --> 01:24:59,456
<i>But the southern newspapers are
celebrating a triumph of the Merrimack.</i>

1147
01:25:00,050 --> 01:25:01,784
She destroyed two of our largest ships.

1148
01:25:02,044 --> 01:25:06,730
<i>The Merrimack's mission was to destroy all
the blockading ships in Hampton Roads.</i>

1149
01:25:07,327 --> 01:25:09,659
She was stopped at two, so she failed.

1150
01:25:10,168 --> 01:25:13,373
<i>The Monitor's mission was to
protect the Minnesota which she did.</i>

1151
01:25:13,579 --> 01:25:14,912
So she succeeded.

1152
01:25:15,736 --> 01:25:17,550
I would call it a draw.

1153
01:25:17,555 --> 01:25:19,741
<i>The Merrimack is
successful just as a threat.</i>

1154
01:25:19,973 --> 01:25:21,680
That's what kept
General McClellan from

1155
01:25:21,704 --> 01:25:23,674
taking Richmond by
water and ending the war.

1156
01:25:24,200 --> 01:25:26,633
Mr. President,
John Ericsson wants to tell you

1157
01:25:26,657 --> 01:25:28,692
something and I think
you better let him,

1158
01:25:28,696 --> 01:25:29,922
or he'll tell the newspapers.

1159
01:25:29,927 --> 01:25:32,209
- I already told newspapers!
- Told them what?

1160
01:25:32,214 --> 01:25:36,240
That I knew my ship had to fire
30 pound charges of powder!

1161
01:25:36,434 --> 01:25:39,583
And I tested the cannon to
make sure they could stand up!

1162
01:25:39,604 --> 01:25:42,259
Those shots would have
gone clear through the enemy!

1163
01:25:42,595 --> 01:25:45,483
Now I find you desk
sailors give strict orders

1164
01:25:45,507 --> 01:25:48,201
no more than 15
pounds were to be fired!

1165
01:25:48,206 --> 01:25:50,312
What is possible excuse?

1166
01:25:50,317 --> 01:25:53,955
The test wasn't convincing.
We didn't want your guns blowing up...

1167
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:55,496
<i>as they did on the Princeton.</i>

1168
01:25:55,666 --> 01:25:58,517
I built my ship to win!
You don't let her!

1169
01:25:58,522 --> 01:26:01,866
Mr. Ericsson,
the day of the wooden ship is over.

1170
01:26:02,438 --> 01:26:04,158
You have made history.

1171
01:26:04,319 --> 01:26:06,967
That should be satisfaction
enough for any man.

1172
01:26:07,094 --> 01:26:08,144
Mr. President!

1173
01:26:08,168 --> 01:26:11,340
But I can do something
you may enjoy even more.

1174
01:26:12,409 --> 01:26:13,464
What is that, sir?

1175
01:26:13,530 --> 01:26:18,055
If you submit your bill,
I'll see that it's promptly paid.

1176
01:26:29,429 --> 01:26:30,715
I don't see no soldiers.

1177
01:26:31,340 --> 01:26:32,907
But I keeps hearin' drums.

1178
01:26:33,956 --> 01:26:35,343
Do you hear drums, Miss Betty?

1179
01:26:36,976 --> 01:26:38,664
No, no I don't.

1180
01:26:39,368 --> 01:26:42,672
That's good, no drums means we still alive.

1181
01:26:46,393 --> 01:26:47,493
Was alive.

1182
01:26:52,505 --> 01:26:55,167
- I'm ready.
- You don't look ready.

1183
01:26:58,887 --> 01:27:00,295
Your clothes aren't packed.

1184
01:27:01,941 --> 01:27:03,747
Do I need clothes where I'm going?

1185
01:27:04,487 --> 01:27:06,734
Unless you walk around stark naked at home.

1186
01:27:08,624 --> 01:27:09,985
You're being released, Miss Betty.

1187
01:27:12,433 --> 01:27:13,532
Why?

1188
01:27:14,478 --> 01:27:15,578
Is it true?

1189
01:27:18,681 --> 01:27:20,341
- What about Opal?
- Also released.

1190
01:27:22,541 --> 01:27:25,344
- To what do I owe this?
- To yourself, really.

1191
01:27:26,771 --> 01:27:29,607
Catesby Jones wrote a report on
what you did to save the ship.

1192
01:27:30,589 --> 01:27:34,139
The Admiral decided it more than made up
for what you may have done for the Yankees.

1193
01:27:35,562 --> 01:27:40,016
I think he was glad to have an excuse not
to put a rope around a pretty lady's neck.

1194
01:27:41,644 --> 01:27:42,660
I know I am.

1195
01:27:45,260 --> 01:27:47,661
I'll have someone come down
and help you with your bags.

1196
01:27:49,238 --> 01:27:50,368
You're free to leave.

1197
01:28:01,116 --> 01:28:05,270
Oh, Miss Betty, I'm happy they
ain't hangin' you, not to mention me.

1198
01:28:05,851 --> 01:28:07,542
But what all you done to save that ship?

1199
01:28:07,986 --> 01:28:10,907
I haven't the faintest idea,
and I surely wasn't going to ask.

1200
01:28:16,424 --> 01:28:17,524
Ma'am.

1201
01:28:37,098 --> 01:28:38,189
Let me look at you.

1202
01:28:38,874 --> 01:28:41,867
- You're not hurt, you're all right?
- Our casualties were very light.

1203
01:28:42,292 --> 01:28:43,455
Thank God for that.

1204
01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:45,874
I know it's thanks to
you that I'm still alive.

1205
01:28:46,783 --> 01:28:47,898
But I'm dyin'...

1206
01:28:50,170 --> 01:28:51,270
Let's walk.

1207
01:28:55,167 --> 01:28:57,283
<i>I saw in the newspapers
that the Monitor's</i>

1208
01:28:57,307 --> 01:28:59,891
cannon were supposed to
fire 30-pounds of powder.

1209
01:28:59,896 --> 01:29:03,389
but that Naval Operations had
changed it to 15, so in my report...

1210
01:29:04,948 --> 01:29:06,738
I said that you were
responsible for the cut.

1211
01:29:06,925 --> 01:29:08,025
How?

1212
01:29:08,030 --> 01:29:11,230
I said that you sent word of another firing
test to your contacts in Washington.

1213
01:29:11,235 --> 01:29:14,760
And this test never happened, but they
believed what you told them...

1214
01:29:15,309 --> 01:29:19,367
that when the guns firing
30-pounds got hot, they blew up.

1215
01:29:20,241 --> 01:29:22,591
You really made up
such a lovely fairy tale?

1216
01:29:23,780 --> 01:29:25,702
I can't tell you what it means to me,
how happy

1217
01:29:25,726 --> 01:29:27,647
it makes me because it
means you still love me.

1218
01:29:30,870 --> 01:29:33,673
You know all the while I was in
that prison looking out at the gallows,

1219
01:29:34,204 --> 01:29:36,654
Of course I thought about
whether or not they would hang me.

1220
01:29:37,174 --> 01:29:38,681
But more than that, I thought...

1221
01:29:39,349 --> 01:29:42,969
Does Catesby love me?
Can he love me after what I've done?

1222
01:29:45,752 --> 01:29:46,852
Yes.

1223
01:29:48,271 --> 01:29:50,018
But it doesn't matter worth a damn.

1224
01:29:51,361 --> 01:29:53,703
I wanted you to live,
but I could never live with you.

1225
01:29:53,952 --> 01:29:55,003
Not now.

1226
01:29:55,357 --> 01:29:58,056
Not after what happened.
Betty, we butchered hundreds of men...

1227
01:29:58,061 --> 01:30:00,251
<i>on the Congress and the Cumberland,
and they</i>

1228
01:30:00,275 --> 01:30:02,466
would have done the
same to us if they could.

1229
01:30:03,351 --> 01:30:04,757
And you did your best to help them.

1230
01:30:05,703 --> 01:30:07,337
So what is love compared to that?

1231
01:30:09,078 --> 01:30:10,515
You go back north, Betty.

1232
01:30:11,245 --> 01:30:13,115
That's the side you chose.
Stay there.

1233
01:30:15,781 --> 01:30:17,311
We should never see each other again.

1234
01:30:52,593 --> 01:30:55,439
<i>The Merrimack never saw action again.</i>

1235
01:30:56,160 --> 01:30:59,935
Two months after the battle,
the Confederacy abandoned Norfolk

1236
01:31:00,264 --> 01:31:02,100
leaving the ship without a base.

1237
01:31:02,628 --> 01:31:05,061
To keep her from falling into Union hands,

1238
01:31:05,387 --> 01:31:07,414
she was grounded and burned.

1239
01:31:08,657 --> 01:31:11,286
<i>The Monitor did not
survive the year, either.</i>

1240
01:31:11,891 --> 01:31:14,861
In December of 1862
she was ordered to join

1241
01:31:14,885 --> 01:31:18,280
the Union attack on Wilmington,
North Carolina.

1242
01:31:19,761 --> 01:31:23,232
On December the 31st,
in a storm off Cape Hatteras,

1243
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:27,445
<i>the Monitor went down
with the loss of sixteen lives.</i>