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My name is William Piflenger.
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I never intended to write this book,
but after our raid into Georgia was over,
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Something happened
to make me change my mind.
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Along with a group of men
who had shared so much with me,
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I was summoned to
the War Department in Washington.
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We expected nothing more
than routine questioning,
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But were surprised to be invited
into Secretary Sta-union's office,
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And dumbfounded as we took in
the meaning of his words.
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It is a tribute to your valor
that the boldest exploit of this war
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Bringing consternation upon the
Confederacy and glory to our Union arms,
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Was led by a civilian, and carried out
by private soldiers.
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Volunteers, to a man.
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You've won for us a new respect,
and we are grateful.
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Congress has, by recent law,
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Prepared a medal to be awarded
for conspicuous bravery:
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"The Congressional Medal of Honor."
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You gentlemen are to have
the first ever given.
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Corporal William Pittenger.
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Congratulations, Mr. Pittenger.
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I tried to thank him
but I felt too unworthy,
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Remembering our missing comrades
and our brave leader Andrews
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Who had gained us this honor.
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James J. Andrews was a man
of mystery, as befitted his vocation.
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Though in reality a Union spy,
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He was trusted throughout the South
as a blockade runner.
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It was typical that even now
as he neared our fines,
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He was riding a horse he had borrowed
from the Confederates.
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On that eventful day in 1862,
I was in charge of a picket detail,
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Guarding the approach to our
headquarters camp, south of Nashville.
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Pittenger, why don't you hire a substitute,
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So the war won't interfere
with your reading?
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This concerns the war.
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Bringing out a new medal.
"The Congressional Medal of Honor."
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This ain't for you and me.
That's for generals.
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Not our generals.
They won't even let us fight.
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Mitchell would,
if they'd give him a chance.
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Maybe.
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All I know is I joined this army
to kill Johnny Rebs,
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And so far, I ain't even seen one.
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You've been lucky.
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It's all right, Bill.
I know him.
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Glad to see you, Mr. Andrews.
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What's your regiment doing
this far south of Nashville?
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General Buell moved outwith most of
the army to reinforce Grant.
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There's a big fight shaping up
around Corinth.
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I probably don't have to tell you.
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I didn't know Buell was gone.
Who's in command here now?
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General Mitchell. He's madder than
a wet hen to be left behind.
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So were we.
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- Why are you left behind?
- To guard Nashville.
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It's nice to talk with you again, Corporal.
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Mr. Andrews...
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If you ever want help
on a Secret Service mission,
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Don't forget the name Pittenger.
William Pittenger.
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In all of East Tennessee,
there's no concentration
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Of Confederate forces worth the mention.
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The Southern army at Knoxville
is barely able to defend the city
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- From Union General Morgan.
- What about Chattanooga?
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Buell was certain a great army
was gathering there.
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General Mitchell, there are only
2,000 raw recruits in Chattanooga,
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And another 2,000 that aren't even armed!
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Here we wait with 10,000 choice troops
under strict orders to guard Nashville.
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If only I'd been given some latitude,
I'd march right into Chattanooga.
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- Wouldn't that be defending Nashville?
- Yes, by George!
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As long as I keep the enemy in front
of me, Nashville will be fully protected.
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But I don't want Chattanooga
unless I can hold it.
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It might be two weeks
before Buell could reinforce me.
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Have you any idea how many men
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The Confederates could bring
out of Atlanta against me?
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15,000 at least.
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That many?
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Suppose we have a look, Andrews,
and see how matters stand.
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Here's Lee, who has his hands full
in Virginia.
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And here's Beauregard,
who's bringing up
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everything he's got to
fight Grant at Shiloh.
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And here's their east-west rail road,
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All the way from Alexandria to Memphis,
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With Chattanooga right
in the strategic center.
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Here we are. So, if I moved
down here to Huntsville,
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Captured the locomotives and flat cars,
and rode into Chattanooga,
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All I'd have to fear would be
these forces out of Atlanta.
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That's true, sir, but we're right back
where we started from.
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They can move their soldiers
up the rail road from Atlanta
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And drive you out of Chattanooga
in two days.
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There are 11 rail road bridges
over the Chicamagua.
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A man like you could lead a raiding party
and burn those bridges for me.
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Why not?
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I had a deal with General Buell
that when I brought this information,
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I wouldn't go South anymore.
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Soon as I complete this report,
I aim to enlist in the 21st Ohio.
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You'd leave the Secret Service
to become a foot soldier?
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Yes, sir. Maybe I won't be
any great shakes in the infantry,
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But at least it wouldn't be
hiding under a cloak.
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After just so long,
a man has to come out in the open.
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Mr. Andrews, I wouldn't detail any man
on a duty of this kind against his will.
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But consider what it might mean
to the Union.
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Cut the Confederacy in two.
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We could shorten the war by half,
maybe end it.
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I'd heard from Mr. Andrews
sooner than I expected.
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I'd heard from Mr. Andrews
sooner than I expected.
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That night a score of adventurous men,
most from the 21st and 33rd Ohio Infantry,
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Followed me to a meeting place
on a hillside.
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- Good evening, gentlemen.
- Good evening.
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All here, Mr. Andrews.
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Which are Brown and Knight?
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Private Wilson Brown, Company F.
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Private William Knight, Company E.
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Not any longer, gentlemen.
Forget that you've ever been soldiers.
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Mr. Brown and Mr. Knight
have been informed
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By their company commanders
about our venture.
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They know what they have to do.
We can't get along without them.
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All I can tell the rest of you is that
while Mitchell moves toward Chattanooga,
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We must penetrate more than 100 miles
behind the Confederate lines in Georgia
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To destroy the rail road.
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If we fail, every one of us may be hanged
or torn in pieces by an angry mob.
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You have no experience
playing the part of spies.
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Some of you are pretty young.
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Since we're asking you
to volunteer blindly,
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it won't be dishonorable
to back out now.
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If you had any sense, you'd return to camp
and get into uniform again.
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Good. You're the men for me.
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Now then, you're to travel southeast
through the Cumberland Mountains,
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Cross the Tennessee River,
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And be ready to catch the 5:00 train south
out of Chattanooga Thursday afternoon.
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Your destination is the Railroad Hotel
at Marietta, Georgia.
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If anyone fails to meet me there
before sun up Friday morning,
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The attempt will be made without him.
Any questions?
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I'm Bill Campbell.
What'll we tell the Johnny Rebs
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About who we are
and where we're from?
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Tell them you're Kentuckians, escaping
Yankee rule to join a Southern regiment.
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If they press you, tell them you hail
from Fleming County, Kentucky.
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I'm from Flemingsburg, and no man from
that county ever joined the Southern army.
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- What if they have us cornered?
- Don't hesitate to join their army.
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You can escape back to your own lines
some dark night on picket duty.
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I'm Bob Buff um. Would you care to tell us
how you intend to reach Marietta?
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I'll travel on the same road,
sometimes before you, sometimes behind.
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- We allowed to talk to you?
- Treat me as you would a stranger.
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As for you, Mr. Buff um, it might be wiser
if you didn't speak at all.
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I never met a Kentuckian
so plainly from Massachusetts.
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Fihundefl
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Do you have your pistols?
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Keep them hidden.
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In this business, you never fight
unless you've failed, and we won't fail.
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Nothing can stop us.
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Fihundefl
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Nothing.
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Andrews gave us 3 days for
our journey through the Cumberlands.
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Traveling by twos and threes,
we were strung out miles apart
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In a desolate country.
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We'd been supplied with Confederate
money, but food and lodging were scarce,
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And transportation out of the question.
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My companion was the Giant,
Bill Campbell.
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As I came to know him, I felt a growing
concern over his quick, violent temper.
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One such powder keg could blow
our whole expedition sky-high.
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We reached the Tennessee River on time,
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Only to find it impassable.
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Pardon me, ma'am. Do you know
the whereabouts of the ferryman?
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Home, like enough. But he won't
chance it across before morning.
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River's swole up mighty angry.
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- Could you put us up for the night?
- Where you from?
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Flemingsburg, Kentucky.
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Inn's pretty full.
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We can pay double.
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Fihundefl
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They're from Flemingsburg, too.
There's a score of us in all.
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We couldn't abide the Yankees anymore
so we pulled up stakes.
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Gonna throw in our lot
with the Southern army.
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Come in, all of ya.
It won't cost you a cent.
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Flemingsburg? I can't rightly say
I've ever been to Flemingsburg.
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Unless you wanna be under the thumb of the
abolitionists, you better not go now.
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I never thought Kentucky would be run
by clay-eaters and poor white trash!
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There's some mighty fine folks
in Kentucky.
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Yes, and more of them
are coming south every day.
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Isn't that just giving up
your state to the Yankees?
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They've got it already.
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They're so strong in the legislature,
they passed a law
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That any man fighting for the South
forfeits his state's rights
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- To citizenship, land and holdings.
- Has it come to that?
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Yes, sir. I know that to be true.
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The governor of Kentucky has four sons.
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Two are fighting for the Yankees,
and two are in my regiment.
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They told me that unless we won,
they could never go home again.
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Damn Yankees!
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Jess, you're at table.
Quit your swearing.
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"Damn Yankee" ain't swearing, Mother,
and you know it.
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Jem, maybe the brave Kentuckians
would like to join your regiment.
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I'd be mighty proud to have them,
if you can wait till this comes off.
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I'd take you to Chattanooga with me,
introduce you to General Ledbetter.
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We're honored, but we had our hearts set
on enlisting in the 1st Georgia regiment.
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Some of our friends have already joined it,
and we're anxious to push on.
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1st Georgia!
Did you hear that, Mother?
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No river's gonna hold you back.
That ferryman doesn't like flood water,
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But he'll take you over first thing in the
morning or find himself out of a job.
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I knew it. I knew Jess Mclntyre
would help you.
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- They're helping us, ain't they?
- Yes, sir!
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- Retha, give them boys more chicken.
- Yes, ma'am.
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You're all very kind,
kinder than we deserve.
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That's right.
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You won't have no trouble at
all. Once folks find out what you're up to,
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They'll put the big pot in the little one.
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Well, look who's here!
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Land sakes, but you're wet!
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You need some of Retha's cooking,
Mr. Andrews.
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Sounds mighty good.
Smells even better.
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I think I'll get warm first.
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Evening.
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Retha, fetch Mr. Andrews
that peach brandy, you hear?
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Yes, ma'am.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I have great news.
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On the strength of it, I'd ask you all
to have a glass with me...
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If I knew the color of your politics.
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You needn't worry about these boys.
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They've been living amongst Yankees,
but they're coming out on the right side.
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Good.
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We won a great victory at Shiloh.
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- Did Beauregard lick that buzzard Grant?
- Cut him to ribbons.
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What about the Yankee gunboats
at Pittsburgh Landing?
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100 of them sunk,
and thousands of prisoners taken.
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The whole Yankee force,
gone up the spout.
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Isn't that wonderful?
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Ladies and gentlemen...
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I give you a toast.
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The Confederacy.
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You don't seem very happy
over our victory, Mr. Campbell.
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He's not. He wants to kill
all the Yankees himself.
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- Sounds like a Kentuckian.
- We're all from Kentucky.
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You'll find plenty of action later on, sir.
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But before you go any further South,
there's one thing we must teach you.
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What's that?
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Dixie.
231
00:16:01,046 --> 00:16:02,341
- Sing it.
- May I?
232
00:16:02,414 --> 00:16:05,678
Go right ahead.
Come on, boys, gather 'round.
233
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♪ Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times there are not forgotten ♪
234
00:16:15,027 --> 00:16:19,462
♪ Look away, look away
Look away, Dixie Land ♪
235
00:16:19,531 --> 00:16:23,796
♪ In Dixie Land where I was born
In early on one frosty morn ♪
236
00:16:23,869 --> 00:16:28,134
♪ Look away, look away
Look away, Dixie Land ♪
237
00:16:28,207 --> 00:16:32,733
♪ Then I wish I was in Dixie
Away, away ♪
238
00:16:32,811 --> 00:16:37,338
♪ In Dixie Land I'll take my stand
To live and die in Dixie ♪
239
00:16:37,416 --> 00:16:42,010
♪ Away, away
Away down south in Dixie ♪
240
00:16:42,087 --> 00:16:48,354
♪ Away, away
Away down south in Dixie ♪
241
00:16:48,427 --> 00:16:51,019
♪ Away, away... ♪
242
00:16:51,096 --> 00:16:53,961
IAway down south in Dixie ♪
243
00:17:09,213 --> 00:17:13,479
Mr. Campbell, do you have
something on your mind?
244
00:17:13,552 --> 00:17:15,541
I wanna know just one thing.
245
00:17:16,554 --> 00:17:20,490
Do we have to be better Southerners
than the Johnny Rebs themselves?
246
00:17:21,826 --> 00:17:24,954
I went pretty far tonight.
But let me tell you this:
247
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If you can't drink their toasts
and sing their songs,
248
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Love Jeff Davis and hate Abe Lincoln
until next Friday,
249
00:17:33,238 --> 00:17:35,170
You'll never reach Marietta.
250
00:17:36,374 --> 00:17:38,034
I'm sorry.
251
00:17:38,110 --> 00:17:40,770
Then you were exaggerating about Shiloh?
252
00:17:40,846 --> 00:17:42,437
Yes.
253
00:17:43,781 --> 00:17:47,944
When I bring them good news, I'm doubly
welcome. The truth is bad enough.
254
00:17:48,019 --> 00:17:50,111
Bad enough to stop
General Mitchell's advance?
255
00:17:50,188 --> 00:17:53,918
No. Shiloh can't stop him,
but the devilish rains may.
256
00:17:53,992 --> 00:17:57,222
The trouble is, our movements and his
have to dovetail.
257
00:17:57,296 --> 00:17:59,592
He has an army
and cannon to move.
258
00:18:03,401 --> 00:18:07,393
It's taking a chance, but we'll have
to postpone our plans for one day.
259
00:18:08,739 --> 00:18:12,368
I'll wait here for the rest of the men.
You go into Chattanooga,
260
00:18:12,444 --> 00:18:16,811
And if you see any of the boys who didn't
come this way, pass the word along.
261
00:18:42,373 --> 00:18:44,841
What'd you do before the war?
262
00:18:46,911 --> 00:18:49,174
Taught school a while.
263
00:18:51,449 --> 00:18:53,712
How do you like this business?
264
00:18:56,254 --> 00:18:58,847
There's one side of it I can't get used to.
265
00:18:58,924 --> 00:19:01,448
Mr. Mclntyre...
266
00:19:01,525 --> 00:19:04,858
And the widow woman
who fed us and gave us her bed...
267
00:19:07,398 --> 00:19:10,731
When I deceive 'em, I feel like
the lowest snake that crawls.
268
00:19:12,603 --> 00:19:14,093
I know.
269
00:19:14,171 --> 00:19:18,574
That soldier,
he's supposed to be my enemy.
270
00:19:20,511 --> 00:19:23,844
I'm supposed to hate him
the way Campbell does.
271
00:19:26,017 --> 00:19:28,246
But I don't think I can.
272
00:19:30,354 --> 00:19:33,414
It's worse when a Southerner's
your best friend.
273
00:19:34,425 --> 00:19:36,552
Like old Jim Lindsay.
274
00:19:38,029 --> 00:19:42,863
Even picked out the girl I'm going to
marry, 'cause she's Yankee-minded like me.
275
00:19:44,101 --> 00:19:47,696
Now that I've turned spy
and have to fool him,
276
00:19:47,773 --> 00:19:51,104
I can hardly look him in the eye anymore.
277
00:19:51,176 --> 00:19:53,302
How do you stand it?
278
00:19:56,047 --> 00:19:58,173
I believe in a federal union.
279
00:19:59,717 --> 00:20:01,309
So do I.
280
00:20:03,788 --> 00:20:07,052
I hope we can preserve it
without any more Shilohs.
281
00:20:09,794 --> 00:20:12,557
They say the slaughter was so fierce
on both sides,
282
00:20:12,630 --> 00:20:16,395
You could walk across the field
on dead bodies like stepping stones.
283
00:20:18,803 --> 00:20:23,000
How would you like to put a stop
to that, Pittenger?
284
00:20:23,075 --> 00:20:25,542
Could we, with what we're doing?
285
00:20:26,811 --> 00:20:28,539
Maybe we can.
286
00:20:33,250 --> 00:20:36,242
We managed to be on the
Friday train, headed south.
287
00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:36,319
So far, we were lucky.
288
00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:37,320
So far, we were lucky.
289
00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,305
♪ A rebel I will be
A rebel fill I die ♪
290
00:20:41,378 --> 00:20:45,313
♪ I would not give a fig
To live under a Yankee sky ♪
291
00:20:47,016 --> 00:20:53,216
♪ We are sons of holy Dinah
And we go where we've a mind to ♪
292
00:20:53,290 --> 00:20:57,088
♪ And we stay where we're inclined to
As long as we have fun ♪
293
00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:01,220
♪ Oh, we licked the Yanks at Shiloh
Oh-my, oh-my, oh-my-oh ♪
294
00:21:01,298 --> 00:21:04,925
♪ Yes, we licked the Yanks at Shiloh
Just to see how they would run ♪
295
00:21:05,001 --> 00:21:08,834
♪ We are sons of holy Dinah
And we'll go where we've a mind to ♪
296
00:21:08,904 --> 00:21:12,635
♪ But right now we're inclined to
Go home and rest a spell ♪
297
00:21:12,709 --> 00:21:16,303
♪ But when we're tired of eatin'
We will give them Yanks a beatin' ♪
298
00:21:16,378 --> 00:21:20,280
♪ And they'll all be retreatln'
When we give the rebel yell ♪
299
00:21:26,722 --> 00:21:29,714
How many Yankees
can one Southerner whup?
300
00:21:29,793 --> 00:21:31,316
Five!
301
00:21:31,393 --> 00:21:32,792
- How many?
- Ten!
302
00:21:32,861 --> 00:21:34,328
That's more like it!
303
00:21:34,397 --> 00:21:38,196
One company of Southerners
armed with popguns
304
00:21:38,268 --> 00:21:41,759
Could run a whole regiment of Yankees
clean out of the country!
305
00:21:41,836 --> 00:21:44,037
- Am I right?
- Right!
306
00:21:46,342 --> 00:21:48,173
- Gettin' off?
- No.
307
00:21:48,245 --> 00:21:52,737
- Thought maybe I'd get your seat.
- No, just stretching.
308
00:21:52,816 --> 00:21:54,373
Look at that cannon!
309
00:21:56,919 --> 00:21:58,511
Would you mind?
310
00:21:58,588 --> 00:22:00,987
Don't be ornery, Bill.
Let him see it.
311
00:22:04,026 --> 00:22:06,153
Yankee army issue!
312
00:22:06,228 --> 00:22:08,628
Where'd you get it?
313
00:22:10,232 --> 00:22:12,166
I say, where'd you get it?
314
00:22:12,234 --> 00:22:14,224
Took it off a dead Yank.
315
00:22:14,304 --> 00:22:15,895
Which battle?
316
00:22:15,972 --> 00:22:18,030
Battle for our hen coop!
317
00:22:18,108 --> 00:22:21,440
That's all any of them Yankees are,
chicken stealers.
318
00:22:23,112 --> 00:22:25,546
You hear that?
Chicken stealers!
319
00:22:27,850 --> 00:22:30,318
Station-stop,
Kingston, Kingston.
320
00:22:37,893 --> 00:22:39,883
What do you think you're doing?
321
00:22:39,963 --> 00:22:44,558
He didn't mean any harm.
He just can't help playing jokes on people.
322
00:22:44,633 --> 00:22:48,694
I wasn't speaking to you. Why'd you go
and play a cheap Yankee trick like that?
323
00:22:50,005 --> 00:22:53,736
You're right welcome to the seat.
I was just havin' a little fun.
324
00:22:53,810 --> 00:22:56,402
I'll be dogged if he can't
even talk like a Yankee.
325
00:22:56,479 --> 00:22:59,140
Sit down here, pint-pot,
and see if you can teach me.
326
00:23:11,293 --> 00:23:15,229
In spite of Campbell and
Buff um, we all reached Marietta in safety
327
00:23:15,298 --> 00:23:18,232
And spent a restless night
in the Railroad Hotel.
328
00:23:18,300 --> 00:23:21,098
With the dawn, we were
ready for the big day.
329
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:35,113
Two fair days in a row.
You don't know what that sun means to us.
330
00:23:42,191 --> 00:23:44,591
What are the fine clothes for, Mr. Andrews?
331
00:23:44,661 --> 00:23:47,594
Today I'm an official
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
332
00:23:47,664 --> 00:23:51,223
- A very high official, I hope.
- You are the president, at least!
333
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,737
It's 15 minutes till train time.
You know what you have to do.
334
00:24:07,817 --> 00:24:09,681
Let's have a final check.
335
00:24:09,752 --> 00:24:12,550
Which of you are buying tickets
to Allatoona?
336
00:24:12,621 --> 00:24:14,554
Kingston? Calhoun?
337
00:24:14,624 --> 00:24:16,989
Resaca?
And Chattanooga?
338
00:24:17,060 --> 00:24:20,153
Good. That way it won't appear
we're traveling together.
339
00:24:20,230 --> 00:24:22,822
Knight, Brown and Alf Wilson,
sit close to me.
340
00:24:22,899 --> 00:24:26,390
One last thing: When the train stops
at Big Shanty for breakfast,
341
00:24:26,469 --> 00:24:28,993
Keep your seats till I give you the signal.
342
00:24:29,072 --> 00:24:31,061
Good luck, gentlemen.
343
00:24:32,107 --> 00:24:34,939
- Mr. Andrews?
- Mr. Ross?
344
00:24:35,011 --> 00:24:39,606
After you outlined the plan last night,
Bill Campbell and I got to talking it over.
345
00:24:39,683 --> 00:24:44,050
Tearing up the track behind us
and burning the bridges all makes sense,
346
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,348
But why steal the train at Big Shanty?
347
00:24:46,422 --> 00:24:49,618
It's a breakfast stop for the crew
as well as the passengers.
348
00:24:49,693 --> 00:24:51,750
There's no telegraph there, either.
349
00:24:51,828 --> 00:24:54,318
There's a Confederate camp
with 4,000 men.
350
00:24:54,396 --> 00:24:56,887
Must we steal an engine
in full view of the Southern army?
351
00:24:56,967 --> 00:24:59,263
Know any place they won't suspect it?
352
00:24:59,336 --> 00:25:03,236
Yes. Any deserted part of the track
north of this town.
353
00:25:03,306 --> 00:25:06,399
- That'd mean a fight.
- What's the matter with a fight?
354
00:25:06,476 --> 00:25:09,671
- You never know how it'll come out.
- I know how I'm coming out.
355
00:25:09,746 --> 00:25:12,008
I've had a bellyful
of this bowin' and scrapin'
356
00:25:12,081 --> 00:25:15,140
And sweet-talking every
loudmouth Sesech in the state of Georgia.
357
00:25:15,218 --> 00:25:19,210
If you want to capture this train
in a fair fight, you can count on me.
358
00:25:19,289 --> 00:25:21,414
If you don't, I ain't going.
359
00:25:21,491 --> 00:25:25,824
Mr. Campbell, your company commander
said you'd be worth ten in a fight.
360
00:25:25,895 --> 00:25:28,829
That's why I brought you along,
just in case.
361
00:25:28,897 --> 00:25:31,024
But we didn't come to fight.
362
00:25:31,101 --> 00:25:33,158
We came to burn rail road bridges.
363
00:25:33,236 --> 00:25:36,431
If you don't like the plan,
you're free to drop out now.
364
00:25:36,506 --> 00:25:38,973
If you come, you'll do it my way.
365
00:25:56,945 --> 00:26:00,005
- Cloudin' over.
- Yeah. Is it gonna rain?
366
00:26:00,083 --> 00:26:03,278
Might could. It rains one minute,
shines the next.
367
00:26:23,972 --> 00:26:25,462
All aboard!
368
00:27:06,081 --> 00:27:10,108
- Good morning, conductor.
- Morning.
369
00:27:10,186 --> 00:27:11,845
Didn't you get on at Marietta?
370
00:27:11,921 --> 00:27:13,182
Yes.
371
00:27:15,490 --> 00:27:18,015
You mind if we have a word?
372
00:27:28,103 --> 00:27:30,036
What do you know about those men?
373
00:27:32,908 --> 00:27:35,239
Is there anything remarkable about them?
374
00:27:35,311 --> 00:27:38,836
It's the first time that many passengers
ever got on at Marietta.
375
00:27:38,914 --> 00:27:43,976
And all together, too. Now they're making
out like they don't even know each other.
376
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,974
If they're deserters,
I've got orders to turn
377
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,346
them over to the
authorities at Big Shanty.
378
00:27:51,460 --> 00:27:53,928
Why are you telling me this?
379
00:27:54,329 --> 00:27:56,661
Because you seem to be with 'em.
380
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,992
- You don't miss much, do you?
- Not much, Mr. Andrews.
381
00:28:02,738 --> 00:28:05,797
- You know my name?
- You've ridden the train before.
382
00:28:07,509 --> 00:28:11,570
All right. In a way you're an official,
so I can tell you this.
383
00:28:13,081 --> 00:28:17,347
Those men are on government business,
bound for Yankee land, and so am I.
384
00:28:18,154 --> 00:28:19,552
Blockade running?
385
00:28:19,621 --> 00:28:22,749
Maybe that. Maybe something more.
386
00:28:36,371 --> 00:28:38,971
You don't get a letter like that
from Brigadier General Beauregard
387
00:28:39,008 --> 00:28:43,239
- Just for running quinine.
- No, I reckon you don't.
388
00:28:45,113 --> 00:28:48,446
I'd give my right arm
to serve under that man.
389
00:28:49,451 --> 00:28:51,350
You are.
390
00:28:51,421 --> 00:28:54,081
This rail road is the artery
that pumps fresh blood
391
00:28:54,157 --> 00:28:56,885
In the army of the Mississippi
on the left hand,
392
00:28:56,959 --> 00:28:59,449
And the army of Northern Virginia
on the right.
393
00:29:00,562 --> 00:29:04,657
Beauregard and Robert E. Lee
would perish without men like you.
394
00:29:07,102 --> 00:29:10,002
Well, thank you.
395
00:29:13,742 --> 00:29:17,268
Station stop. Big Shanty.
Twenty minutes for breakfast.
396
00:29:19,081 --> 00:29:21,446
Our inspector, Mr. Murphy,
is on board today.
397
00:29:21,517 --> 00:29:24,178
He'd be mighty proud to have you
take breakfast with us.
398
00:29:24,252 --> 00:29:26,516
Thank you, but I've already eaten.
399
00:29:26,589 --> 00:29:28,317
My name's William Fuller.
400
00:29:28,391 --> 00:29:31,825
Have a good meal, Mr. Fuller,
and don't worry about deserters.
401
00:29:31,894 --> 00:29:33,884
I'll take care of your train.
402
00:30:01,857 --> 00:30:04,723
- Work up an appetite?
- Mr. Murphy did. He brought her in.
403
00:30:04,794 --> 00:30:07,386
Keeping your hand in?
404
00:30:14,669 --> 00:30:16,933
Come on, boys.
It's time to go now.
405
00:30:39,828 --> 00:30:41,955
Uncouple here.
406
00:30:46,768 --> 00:30:48,098
Get in.
407
00:30:56,912 --> 00:30:58,242
Come on, boys.
408
00:30:58,314 --> 00:31:02,249
When it's orders from Beauregard,
we can't keep the General waiting.
409
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,968
Let her roll.
410
00:31:21,037 --> 00:31:24,698
Thank you, Dixie.
What's been happening in Big Shanty?
411
00:31:24,773 --> 00:31:26,570
Right smart nothing.
412
00:31:37,152 --> 00:31:40,610
- Who did it? Did you see 'em?
- Deserters from the camp, most likely.
413
00:31:40,690 --> 00:31:42,656
They won't go far.
414
00:31:51,166 --> 00:31:53,793
We're through playing Rebs!
We're Yankees again!
415
00:31:53,869 --> 00:31:56,462
I can talk! I can open my mouth!
416
00:31:56,539 --> 00:31:57,800
Go ahead!
417
00:31:57,801 --> 00:31:58,801
4
418
00:32:27,790 --> 00:32:30,816
Repairmen. Andrews is talking to them.
419
00:32:35,865 --> 00:32:38,196
He borrowed their tools.
420
00:32:39,935 --> 00:32:42,062
I don't know why
we have to take the South.
421
00:32:42,139 --> 00:32:44,867
If Andrews asked for it,
they'd give it to him.
422
00:33:11,167 --> 00:33:14,295
If we'd taken all their tools
instead of asking "pretty please,"
423
00:33:14,371 --> 00:33:16,895
We might've got a handspike
with a claw on it.
424
00:33:16,972 --> 00:33:19,497
Let a real man handle it, Bill.
425
00:33:20,776 --> 00:33:23,768
Put half of them in the car
nearest the tender.
426
00:33:29,151 --> 00:33:33,952
- It's all we could find in the toolbox.
- We'll have to make 'em do.
427
00:33:42,198 --> 00:33:43,858
Think we're being followed?
428
00:33:43,934 --> 00:33:46,458
Can't be. There's no train
south of us short of Atlanta,
429
00:33:46,535 --> 00:33:49,402
And they'll have to go to Marietta
before they can send out a telegram.
430
00:33:49,473 --> 00:33:53,066
The only train we've got to worry about is
that freight we're due to pass at Kingston.
431
00:33:53,143 --> 00:33:56,634
That torn track'll block everything below
us, and once we get that wire cut,
432
00:33:56,713 --> 00:33:58,941
They can't send warning to those above.
433
00:34:07,690 --> 00:34:11,148
Tighter yet.
A little more. There.
434
00:34:15,765 --> 00:34:19,962
Now cut it at the next pole and take a
length with us. Nobody'll catch us then.
435
00:34:32,648 --> 00:34:36,379
Did you get a look at 'em?
The men who stole my train?
436
00:34:36,453 --> 00:34:38,283
- Stole, is it?
- Yeah. Did they stop?
437
00:34:38,355 --> 00:34:40,048
- They did.
- What for?
438
00:34:40,123 --> 00:34:42,590
The official stepped down
and borrowed some tools.
439
00:34:42,659 --> 00:34:45,718
- A Mr. Andrews?
- I didn't ask. He came from Beauregard.
440
00:34:45,796 --> 00:34:48,058
That's the one.
441
00:34:49,532 --> 00:34:53,592
- Who were they? Conscripts?
- No, a Mr. Andrews.
442
00:34:53,670 --> 00:34:56,399
He got on at Marietta
with some Secret Service men.
443
00:34:56,473 --> 00:34:59,304
- He showed me a letter from Beauregard.
- An authorization?
444
00:34:59,376 --> 00:35:02,707
No. It was right much an order
to help out any way we could.
445
00:35:02,779 --> 00:35:05,974
I'll help him when I get
to that telegraph in Allatoona.
446
00:35:06,049 --> 00:35:09,142
Maybe next time you'll stop and ask
if he is an army man.
447
00:35:09,219 --> 00:35:10,946
We'll need that push car.
448
00:35:11,020 --> 00:35:14,114
Take it and welcome, Mr. Murphy.
Hoist it up, boys.
449
00:35:35,911 --> 00:35:39,745
♪ Blow the whistle, clear the track
When I'm gone I won't be back ♪
450
00:35:39,815 --> 00:35:43,216
♪ My pappy was a railroadin' man ♪
451
00:35:43,286 --> 00:35:47,449
♪ Well, I stole a locomotive
Just to take a ride ♪
452
00:35:47,524 --> 00:35:51,186
Be quiet!
We're coming to a station.
453
00:35:53,729 --> 00:35:55,458
What station?
454
00:35:55,532 --> 00:35:57,862
- Allatoona.
- Just a crossroads.
455
00:35:59,735 --> 00:36:03,728
♪ I stole a locomotive
Just to take a ride ♪
456
00:36:03,807 --> 00:36:07,298
♪ 'Cause my pappy
was a railroadin' man ♪
457
00:36:07,377 --> 00:36:09,537
Brown, you wanna take her?
458
00:36:14,817 --> 00:36:17,410
Keep her down.
We gotta run on schedule.
459
00:36:28,664 --> 00:36:29,994
Jump!
460
00:36:36,772 --> 00:36:38,432
You all right?
461
00:36:44,246 --> 00:36:47,306
Those scoundrels are spies,
but not for Beauregard.
462
00:36:47,384 --> 00:36:49,646
Only damn Yankees would do
a trick like that.
463
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,209
Whatever they're up to,
they mean business.
464
00:37:07,670 --> 00:37:09,796
Sit on the front facing forward, Jeff.
465
00:37:09,873 --> 00:37:12,465
You're an old hand at watching the tracks.
466
00:37:29,959 --> 00:37:31,550
Mr. Andrews!
467
00:37:37,433 --> 00:37:41,528
There's an iron works four miles east.
That must be her yard engine.
468
00:37:41,605 --> 00:37:43,264
Hadn't we better destroy her?
469
00:37:43,340 --> 00:37:46,569
Not worth the risk.
We're too close to Kingston.
470
00:37:46,643 --> 00:37:49,440
Ease on through the
station, but don't stop.
471
00:37:49,511 --> 00:37:51,103
Let 'em hear the bell.
472
00:37:52,582 --> 00:37:56,642
- We're slowing down.
- Get ready.
473
00:38:04,660 --> 00:38:07,219
There's a locomotive back there
and he ran right on by it.
474
00:38:07,297 --> 00:38:11,664
- I thought we were wrecking this rail
road. - Give him a chance, will ya?
475
00:38:27,249 --> 00:38:30,912
- Can you get a message to Kingston?
- No, the line's gone dead.
476
00:38:30,987 --> 00:38:33,579
- They're cutting the wire
between stations. - Who is?
477
00:38:33,656 --> 00:38:36,624
The Yankees that stole my train!
478
00:38:36,693 --> 00:38:39,422
Hey, Reid! They've taken up a rail
two miles south.
479
00:38:39,496 --> 00:38:42,725
Get a flagman down there to stop
any train from Atlanta.
480
00:38:53,509 --> 00:38:56,967
All right, boys. I'm gonna wait here
for the southbound train.
481
00:38:57,047 --> 00:38:58,911
There's a train on the sidetrack.
482
00:38:58,982 --> 00:39:02,712
Goes between here and Rome.
Waiting for Atlanta passengers.
483
00:39:02,786 --> 00:39:05,275
Pull past the switch,
then back in ahead of her.
484
00:39:05,355 --> 00:39:07,412
Couldn't we make it into Adairsville?
485
00:39:07,490 --> 00:39:10,981
No, we might run head-on
into that southbound freight.
486
00:39:11,060 --> 00:39:12,549
We've gotta wait.
487
00:39:33,949 --> 00:39:37,680
You boys oil up the engine.
You're too busy to bother with anybody.
488
00:39:37,754 --> 00:39:39,311
Understand?
489
00:39:43,358 --> 00:39:44,848
I'll do the talking.
490
00:39:49,631 --> 00:39:51,622
Looks like I'll have to do plenty.
491
00:39:57,706 --> 00:40:00,641
Hand me that wrench.
492
00:40:00,709 --> 00:40:02,699
I reckon I don't know you.
493
00:40:02,779 --> 00:40:04,836
It's their engine, all right.
494
00:40:04,914 --> 00:40:07,177
But there ain't none of their men aboard.
495
00:40:07,250 --> 00:40:09,580
Gentlemen, I've taken this train
by government authority
496
00:40:09,652 --> 00:40:12,051
And I'm running it through to Beauregard.
497
00:40:14,656 --> 00:40:16,590
Where's Jeff Cain and Fuller?
498
00:40:16,658 --> 00:40:19,320
They were fitting out another train
when we left Atlanta.
499
00:40:19,394 --> 00:40:22,921
I got a dispatch for Fuller to wait here
until the southbound freight passes.
500
00:40:22,999 --> 00:40:26,797
He'll be along. The southbound freight
may have to wait for him.
501
00:40:30,539 --> 00:40:32,529
What you got in them boxcars?
502
00:40:32,609 --> 00:40:35,940
Enough ammunition to blow this depot
to kingdom come.
503
00:40:39,815 --> 00:40:42,647
One of them was pointing toward us.
504
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,686
They all look mighty suspicious.
505
00:40:45,687 --> 00:40:46,687
4
506
00:41:03,592 --> 00:41:05,320
From the north.
507
00:41:15,070 --> 00:41:17,265
All right, boys. Here we go.
508
00:41:28,584 --> 00:41:29,948
Engineer!
509
00:41:30,019 --> 00:41:32,748
I'm running an ammunition train
down to Beauregard.
510
00:41:32,822 --> 00:41:36,723
- Will you pull down and clear the tracks?
- You can't take no train north. Not yet.
511
00:41:36,793 --> 00:41:40,455
- There's another behind me.
- Pete Bracken's express freight?
512
00:41:40,530 --> 00:41:42,587
No, one that ain't scheduled.
513
00:41:42,665 --> 00:41:45,565
- Can't be.
- Maybe there can't be but there is.
514
00:41:45,635 --> 00:41:46,998
Ain't you heard the news?
515
00:41:47,069 --> 00:41:51,027
A Yankee general named Mitchell marched
down and captured Huntsville yesterday.
516
00:41:51,105 --> 00:41:52,368
I'll be darned!
517
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,932
Took every train
on the Memphis and Charleston road.
518
00:41:55,010 --> 00:41:58,445
We're hauling bacon out of Chattanooga
before the Yankees get there.
519
00:41:58,514 --> 00:42:02,950
If you tried to get through to Beauregard
now, you'd run right smack into old Mitch.
520
00:42:03,019 --> 00:42:06,180
Didn't Ledbetter go
to defend Chattanooga?
521
00:42:06,256 --> 00:42:07,517
He'll try.
522
00:42:07,589 --> 00:42:10,319
Then he'll need ammunition
even more than Beauregard.
523
00:42:10,393 --> 00:42:13,691
Will you pull your train way down
so that other freight can clear?
524
00:42:37,553 --> 00:42:40,021
- It's Knight. Can you hear me?
- Go ahead.
525
00:42:40,088 --> 00:42:42,989
- We'll have to wait longer than planned.
- What's up?
526
00:42:43,059 --> 00:42:45,719
Mitchell got through yesterday.
Captured Huntsville.
527
00:42:45,795 --> 00:42:48,854
The enemy is running extra freight trains
and clogging up the road.
528
00:42:48,932 --> 00:42:51,763
He got through. We're too late!
I'm getting out of here!
529
00:42:51,833 --> 00:42:55,030
Shut up and listen.
Andrews says to lie low and wait.
530
00:42:55,103 --> 00:42:56,931
If these folks get too
suspicious, be ready
531
00:42:56,957 --> 00:42:58,825
to jump out and give it
to 'em hot and fast.
532
00:42:58,875 --> 00:43:00,966
- What'll be our signal?
- A pistol shot.
533
00:43:01,043 --> 00:43:05,707
If the station master tries to send a
message up the line, we might shoot him.
534
00:43:06,448 --> 00:43:08,108
That's more like it.
535
00:43:14,022 --> 00:43:17,014
Yonah!
536
00:43:17,093 --> 00:43:19,890
Yonah! Wait for us!
537
00:43:27,536 --> 00:43:30,561
- Uncouple your cars, Hilly!
- We gotta borrow your engine.
538
00:43:36,411 --> 00:43:40,245
Get on the tender, boys. We're chasing
down Yankees, and we need your guns.
539
00:43:40,315 --> 00:43:42,715
We've got orders
to report to Camp MacDonald.
540
00:43:42,785 --> 00:43:44,775
Can't get through today.
The track's out below.
541
00:43:44,853 --> 00:43:48,311
What do you want to do,
drill or shoot Yankees? Come on!
542
00:43:50,826 --> 00:43:54,557
Open her up, Hilly!
Let's stoke that peanut burner.
543
00:44:09,911 --> 00:44:13,972
Something's wrong.
Something's bad wrong, I tell you.
544
00:44:26,061 --> 00:44:28,529
- How long?
- 45 minutes.
545
00:44:28,598 --> 00:44:32,396
Burn their bridges, will we?
Looks like we burned our own!
546
00:44:35,337 --> 00:44:36,667
Campbell!
547
00:44:37,806 --> 00:44:42,140
You'll wait here, like the rest.
That's an order.
548
00:44:45,147 --> 00:44:47,012
We ain't in uniform now.
549
00:44:47,083 --> 00:44:49,982
- We're still soldiers.
- No, we ain't.
550
00:44:50,052 --> 00:44:52,645
We're Yankee contraband
smuggled into a boxcar
551
00:44:52,722 --> 00:44:55,519
By a slick-talking blockade runner.
552
00:44:55,590 --> 00:44:57,956
He hasn't failed us yet.
553
00:45:02,297 --> 00:45:06,290
All right.
I'll give him five more minutes.
554
00:45:14,776 --> 00:45:19,042
I tell you, I know Bill Fuller.
Ain't a better man on the state road.
555
00:45:19,115 --> 00:45:21,912
He wouldn't be this late
without letting us know.
556
00:45:21,983 --> 00:45:24,508
Why don't you telegraph Atlanta
and find out?
557
00:45:24,587 --> 00:45:26,918
The line to the south's gone dead!
558
00:45:26,988 --> 00:45:29,718
Maybe our friend here can tell us why.
559
00:45:31,593 --> 00:45:33,458
I don't know why.
560
00:45:33,529 --> 00:45:37,487
There are many things about how this road
is run I wouldn't attempt to explain.
561
00:45:37,567 --> 00:45:40,185
But I can tell you this:
If Beauregard could
562
00:45:40,211 --> 00:45:42,653
get his orders filled
by regular channels
563
00:45:42,705 --> 00:45:46,572
Without these ruinous delays, he wouldn't
have sent me to bring his powder through.
564
00:45:46,641 --> 00:45:49,235
It's a shame you folks
have to wait for the train.
565
00:45:49,312 --> 00:45:51,972
But it's more of a shame to block
the road with ordinary travel
566
00:45:52,048 --> 00:45:54,879
When the fate of brave soldiers
hangs in the balance.
567
00:45:54,951 --> 00:45:57,418
Mr. Andrews? I'll get you through.
568
00:45:58,553 --> 00:46:01,146
I'll get an authorization
to clear that track for you
569
00:46:01,223 --> 00:46:05,386
- If I have to go all the way to Richmond.
- No! You needn't do that.
570
00:46:05,461 --> 00:46:06,893
Why not?
571
00:46:06,963 --> 00:46:09,555
Because...
572
00:46:15,303 --> 00:46:17,703
That freight's coming in now.
573
00:46:30,218 --> 00:46:32,982
- You can throw that switch now.
- Don't reckon I will.
574
00:46:33,055 --> 00:46:36,785
If you was all you claimed to be, we'd have
heard from the road superintendent of you,
575
00:46:36,859 --> 00:46:40,726
- I ain't throwing no switch until we do.
- I'm not above doing it.
576
00:46:55,010 --> 00:46:57,000
- Sorry, Pops.
- Who do you think you are?
577
00:46:57,078 --> 00:46:59,342
Think you own the whole rail road?
578
00:47:13,695 --> 00:47:16,960
Take your hat off to Andrews.
He got us past the big one.
579
00:47:17,632 --> 00:47:19,122
Yeah.
580
00:47:19,202 --> 00:47:21,600
You don't seem very happy about it.
581
00:47:21,670 --> 00:47:26,470
When I was a little boy, my father
locked me in a closet for 14 hours.
582
00:47:27,542 --> 00:47:32,138
I always obeyed him after that,
but I never liked him much.
583
00:47:35,116 --> 00:47:37,243
You're not going to side with him?
584
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,447
No, it's like Pittenger said.
I'm still a soldier.
585
00:47:40,523 --> 00:47:43,786
General Mitchell should've
put someone in command.
586
00:47:43,859 --> 00:47:47,191
- He put Andrews.
- I mean, a soldier to give proper orders.
587
00:47:47,263 --> 00:47:49,525
Like Ross here, or Pittenger, or Knight.
588
00:47:49,598 --> 00:47:52,862
I got so used to taking orders,
I feel kinda lost without 'em.
589
00:47:52,935 --> 00:47:55,459
Andrews said to forget
we'd ever been soldiers.
590
00:47:55,538 --> 00:47:58,005
He'd better pray we don't.
591
00:47:58,074 --> 00:48:00,131
Pull around that bend and stop.
592
00:48:00,209 --> 00:48:02,005
We've gotta cut the wire again.
593
00:48:17,158 --> 00:48:19,626
They've gone! They got away!
594
00:48:21,096 --> 00:48:22,619
Come on, men!
595
00:48:24,432 --> 00:48:27,162
- Why'd you let those Yankees get away?
- Yankees?
596
00:48:27,236 --> 00:48:29,965
- I thought they was Beauregard's men.
- I told you!
597
00:48:30,039 --> 00:48:31,801
- They're Yankee spies. How many?
- Four.
598
00:48:31,873 --> 00:48:34,273
Try to get a message
to every station up the line, quick.
599
00:48:34,343 --> 00:48:36,776
They're probably
cutting wires right now.
600
00:48:36,846 --> 00:48:40,178
Stephens! Did Pete Bracken
bring in his express freight?
601
00:48:40,248 --> 00:48:41,840
Not yet. They're both extras.
602
00:48:41,917 --> 00:48:45,044
- The Yankees may run into them.
- They know the schedule.
603
00:48:45,721 --> 00:48:47,381
Come on, boys!
604
00:48:50,992 --> 00:48:52,391
Pile on!
605
00:49:41,077 --> 00:49:42,474
Bracken's freight!
606
00:49:42,475 --> 00:49:43,475
4
607
00:49:59,312 --> 00:50:03,305
- Here's your coffee, Mr. Bracken.
- Thank you, Henry.
608
00:50:10,724 --> 00:50:12,122
Henry!
609
00:50:23,737 --> 00:50:25,397
Put it in reverse, Pete.
610
00:50:25,473 --> 00:50:28,372
What you men doing here?
Where's your train, Mr. Fuller?
611
00:50:28,442 --> 00:50:32,070
Yankees got it. Back into Adairsville.
We'll drop these cars off at a sidin'.
612
00:50:32,146 --> 00:50:35,603
- Bring her back, we'll explain later.
- Watch my signals, now.
613
00:51:23,129 --> 00:51:25,529
Yankees stole our train.
Come on!
614
00:51:31,938 --> 00:51:34,804
- My name is Cox.
- I'm Alonso Martin.
615
00:51:34,875 --> 00:51:37,206
- How can we help?
- Pass wood to the fireman.
616
00:51:37,278 --> 00:51:40,007
- We can do that.
- There may be fighting later on.
617
00:51:40,081 --> 00:51:42,070
I reckon we can do that, too.
618
00:51:49,890 --> 00:51:53,620
Those Yankees still have to pass
the Morning Express from Chattanooga.
619
00:51:53,694 --> 00:51:56,457
If she's running on time,
she should be in Calhoun now.
620
00:51:56,530 --> 00:52:00,158
She won't stop Andrews. He talked his way
past three trains at Kingston.
621
00:52:00,234 --> 00:52:02,098
He talked me onto a sidin'.
622
00:52:02,169 --> 00:52:06,366
He'll try to persuade them they've got a
clear track below, and we'll run into her.
623
00:52:06,439 --> 00:52:10,204
What do you want me to do,
run her at half speed?
624
00:52:10,277 --> 00:52:12,403
No. Open her up.
625
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,446
I'll watch the track for you.
626
00:52:14,515 --> 00:52:19,315
Keep that whistle going! Let 'em know we're
on their tail so they won't rip up track!
627
00:52:23,123 --> 00:52:26,854
- When did those Yankees pull outta here?
- Yankees? What Yankees?
628
00:52:26,928 --> 00:52:30,589
Powder-train Yankees. They stole
the General at Big Shanty.
629
00:52:30,664 --> 00:52:32,927
- When'd they leave?
- Ten minutes ago.
630
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,935
Grab all the men and guns you can find
and follow us. We're gonna run 'em down.
631
00:52:37,004 --> 00:52:40,962
- Your telegraph working?
- No, but there's the operator from Dalton.
632
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,072
Come on here, slim.
633
00:52:52,218 --> 00:52:55,779
- Why aren't you up at Dalton's?
- Got a dispatch saying the wire was dead,
634
00:52:55,855 --> 00:52:58,551
So I rode the express down
to find the break and fix it.
635
00:52:58,626 --> 00:53:01,150
Yankees have been cutting the wire.
Come on.
636
00:53:02,629 --> 00:53:07,623
I want you to take down a telegram
to General Ledbetter in Chattanooga.
637
00:53:08,635 --> 00:53:11,695
When we get to Dalton,
we'll drop you off so you can send it.
638
00:53:11,771 --> 00:53:16,435
"My train was captured by Federal spies
making for Chattanooga,"
639
00:53:16,510 --> 00:53:19,637
"Possibly hoping to burn
bridges behind them."
640
00:53:19,713 --> 00:53:22,442
"If I do not capture them,"
641
00:53:22,516 --> 00:53:24,244
"Try to head them off."
642
00:53:24,318 --> 00:53:26,649
"Signed, William A. Fuller."
643
00:53:29,422 --> 00:53:32,550
It's the last time we're
gonna have to do this, boys.
644
00:53:32,626 --> 00:53:36,652
- Get one end free, we'll do the rest.
- Now you're using your head.
645
00:53:40,734 --> 00:53:42,496
Shimmy up there, monkey boy.
646
00:53:43,737 --> 00:53:47,934
When we get this one up, we'll have left
broken track for every train south of us,
647
00:53:48,009 --> 00:53:50,476
And clear road ahead
all the way into Chattanooga.
648
00:53:50,543 --> 00:53:53,341
- No more Kingston, sir?
- What was the matter with Kingston?
649
00:53:53,414 --> 00:53:56,380
I've been in tight places,
but that's the first
650
00:53:56,406 --> 00:53:59,001
time I've been a live
corpse in a coffin!
651
00:53:59,053 --> 00:54:01,247
That's all behind us now.
652
00:54:06,494 --> 00:54:09,757
- Who are they?
- Must be that express train.
653
00:54:09,830 --> 00:54:12,559
- Shall we wreck her?
- They might wreck us.
654
00:54:12,633 --> 00:54:15,259
They wouldn't be coming like that
without a force on board.
655
00:54:15,335 --> 00:54:17,860
Knight, how about it?
656
00:54:17,937 --> 00:54:20,371
We've got as good a locomotive
as ever need to be.
657
00:54:20,441 --> 00:54:23,306
With clear track ahead, it'll outrun
anything we've passed yet.
658
00:54:23,377 --> 00:54:26,311
Then let her go.
Give her every ounce of steam she's got.
659
00:54:26,379 --> 00:54:29,439
Put that rail on board!
Lively!
660
00:55:07,387 --> 00:55:09,411
Knock the ends out of all the cars, boys.
661
00:55:09,490 --> 00:55:11,581
Make a walkway all the way through.
662
00:56:47,086 --> 00:56:49,213
Stop her when we're well past the trestle,
663
00:56:49,290 --> 00:56:53,122
Then reverse and run at half speed
as soon as I give you the signal.
664
00:57:05,138 --> 00:57:08,402
Boys! Bring your coats!
We're gonna drop that car.
665
00:57:18,885 --> 00:57:20,147
- Buff um?
- Yes?
666
00:57:20,221 --> 00:57:21,686
Pull the pin.
667
00:57:26,693 --> 00:57:28,125
Push her back!
668
00:57:28,195 --> 00:57:29,854
Push her back!
669
00:57:50,783 --> 00:57:53,115
Aren't we gonna stop and see the fun, sir?
670
00:57:53,187 --> 00:57:58,714
All I want to see is the first bridge over
the Chicamauga going up in flames.
671
00:58:13,473 --> 00:58:15,269
Reverse! Reverse!
672
00:58:32,558 --> 00:58:33,889
Come on!
673
00:58:52,645 --> 00:58:56,706
Tell Pete Bracken we'll do another
flying switch at the first siding.
674
00:59:08,161 --> 00:59:10,219
Dalton. Way ahead of time.
675
00:59:10,297 --> 00:59:12,423
We gotta take on wood and water.
676
00:59:12,498 --> 00:59:14,898
Not here.
Stop at the first tank beyond town.
677
00:59:40,159 --> 00:59:43,458
- Watch my Sunday suit!
- Been raining up here.
678
00:59:43,530 --> 00:59:45,394
Might've been, but it's cleared up nice.
679
00:59:45,465 --> 00:59:47,261
- Shall we rip up track?
- Nope.
680
00:59:47,334 --> 00:59:48,925
Let's get a wood line going.
681
00:59:49,002 --> 00:59:50,332
Mr. Scott?
682
00:59:50,333 --> 00:59:51,333
4
683
01:00:07,408 --> 01:00:11,742
"My train was captured
by Federal spies making for Chattanooga",
684
01:00:11,813 --> 01:00:15,543
"Possibly hoping to burn
the bridges behind them."
685
01:00:15,617 --> 01:00:19,415
"If I do not capture them, try to head
them off. Signed, William A. Fuller."
686
01:00:19,487 --> 01:00:22,080
So that's why Mitchell hasn't attacked me!
687
01:00:22,157 --> 01:00:26,319
He wants to be sure those bridges are out.
Acknowledge and send this message back.
688
01:00:26,394 --> 01:00:31,456
"Direct to Dalton operator to call Colonel
Allen's regiment to engage the Yankees."
689
01:00:31,533 --> 01:00:33,295
The line to Dalton's gone dead!
690
01:00:33,367 --> 01:00:37,895
Then call Ringgold, and tell him to send
cavalry down the track to cut them off.
691
01:00:39,173 --> 01:00:41,300
They're more than half water-logged.
692
01:00:41,375 --> 01:00:43,434
Probably those bridges are, too.
693
01:00:48,450 --> 01:00:51,645
Back on board, boys!
Uncouple that last car.
694
01:00:52,587 --> 01:00:54,707
- Think it'll stop 'em?
- No, but it'll slow 'em down.
695
01:00:54,723 --> 01:00:56,519
We'll stop them further up the track.
696
01:00:58,659 --> 01:01:00,649
Wilson! Hop on.
697
01:01:14,942 --> 01:01:16,932
This is no time to think about food!
698
01:01:17,012 --> 01:01:20,344
I'm not! I'm thinking of a hot, quick fire
to help that wet wood!
699
01:01:49,243 --> 01:01:51,040
Bring it around.
700
01:02:00,287 --> 01:02:03,347
This oughta be a good place.
701
01:02:03,425 --> 01:02:07,325
Watch your fingers.
Dig it out a little bit in here.
702
01:02:12,466 --> 01:02:14,195
Run at half speed.
703
01:02:15,137 --> 01:02:17,797
This time, we're gonna see what happens.
704
01:02:31,218 --> 01:02:33,584
- Reverse!
- Reverse!
705
01:02:53,941 --> 01:02:55,874
Won't anything stop that train?
706
01:02:55,944 --> 01:02:57,808
We will.
707
01:03:07,321 --> 01:03:09,653
How long is that tunnel?
708
01:03:09,723 --> 01:03:11,714
Through the top of the hill.
709
01:03:13,727 --> 01:03:16,594
Mr. Andrews, we want to stop
and have it outwith them.
710
01:03:16,665 --> 01:03:18,256
That's right.
711
01:03:18,333 --> 01:03:20,891
- We can ambush them inside that tunnel.
- How?
712
01:03:20,969 --> 01:03:25,564
- Send this boxcar back to smash into 'em.
- They might just push it out again.
713
01:03:25,639 --> 01:03:29,074
Then reverse our engine
and send it back, too. How about it?
714
01:03:31,145 --> 01:03:33,112
Well, how about it?
715
01:03:33,113 --> 01:03:34,113
4
716
01:03:37,604 --> 01:03:39,935
- What are we slowing for?
- I ordered them to stop.
717
01:03:40,007 --> 01:03:42,269
We don't want to go in there blind.
718
01:03:42,342 --> 01:03:44,138
And give the Yankees time
to burn a bridge?
719
01:03:44,209 --> 01:03:46,473
They're not burning any bridge,
they're tearing up track.
720
01:03:46,546 --> 01:03:51,176
- They won't have time if we crowd 'em.
- Throwing our lives away won't help.
721
01:03:51,252 --> 01:03:54,310
You boys jump off.
Get down, Pete, I'll take her.
722
01:03:55,222 --> 01:03:57,553
I'll fire for you, Mr. Fuller.
723
01:04:02,695 --> 01:04:06,893
Open her up, Pete. If we're going to glory,
we may as well go a'kiting.
724
01:04:33,893 --> 01:04:37,021
It's time the army showed
the Secret Service how to fight.
725
01:04:37,097 --> 01:04:39,030
I'm gonna stop this train.
726
01:04:39,098 --> 01:04:40,360
Campbell...
727
01:04:41,534 --> 01:04:45,527
Nobody stops this train until we reach
the first Chicamagua bridge.
728
01:04:48,808 --> 01:04:53,745
I know it's hard on you men.
I've been tempted to stop, too.
729
01:04:53,814 --> 01:04:57,681
But we can't risk any encounter
that might lose us our engine.
730
01:04:57,750 --> 01:05:00,198
Even after we burn the
bridges, we've got to
731
01:05:00,224 --> 01:05:02,508
get through to Mitchell
and let him know.
732
01:05:03,656 --> 01:05:06,090
You needn't worry about us, Mr. Andrews.
733
01:05:07,093 --> 01:05:09,083
Any of us.
734
01:05:20,573 --> 01:05:23,371
If we don't wood up soon,
we won't go much farther.
735
01:05:23,444 --> 01:05:27,310
Once we set the first bridge afire,
we'll have plenty of time to hunt for wood.
736
01:05:31,551 --> 01:05:33,712
Any of that coal-oil left?
737
01:05:35,521 --> 01:05:37,318
Just a slosh.
738
01:05:37,391 --> 01:05:39,585
Take it back to the boxcar.
739
01:05:52,739 --> 01:05:54,934
Back in the tender, men.
740
01:06:37,684 --> 01:06:39,480
Go ahead!
741
01:07:32,839 --> 01:07:35,136
Back up! Try her again!
742
01:07:38,378 --> 01:07:40,243
They set the brake!
743
01:08:08,141 --> 01:08:09,869
Push her out!
744
01:08:45,244 --> 01:08:47,769
There's gotta be wood somewhere.
745
01:08:47,848 --> 01:08:51,111
There's a wood station just
this side of Ringgold.
746
01:08:51,184 --> 01:08:53,174
Knight!
747
01:08:53,252 --> 01:08:56,187
- Can you get another mile out of her?
- I don't know.
748
01:09:00,927 --> 01:09:02,917
She's all right.
749
01:09:10,069 --> 01:09:11,729
Hey, Bracken!
750
01:09:11,805 --> 01:09:13,271
Come on, Pete!
751
01:09:23,649 --> 01:09:25,844
Let's go!
752
01:09:25,845 --> 01:09:29,178
There's only one thing for it.
We'll have to get out and push.
753
01:09:33,478 --> 01:09:37,971
I'm so used to seeing train smoke behind,
I thought she was chasing us again!
754
01:09:39,417 --> 01:09:41,544
That's just the smoke from the bridge.
755
01:09:41,619 --> 01:09:44,417
I know, but I thought I saw it move.
756
01:09:44,490 --> 01:09:47,355
It is moving! Pittenger, look!
It is moving!
757
01:09:47,426 --> 01:09:49,893
Yeah, you're very funny, you two.
758
01:09:51,162 --> 01:09:53,152
It's no joke.
759
01:09:56,768 --> 01:09:59,168
All right, you've been spoiling
for a fight.
760
01:09:59,238 --> 01:10:01,295
You might as well have it now.
761
01:10:01,373 --> 01:10:04,102
Jump down and get a barricade
across the track.
762
01:10:13,985 --> 01:10:18,512
Try to coax her around the bend.
It'll look better if they don't see her.
763
01:10:38,944 --> 01:10:40,308
Cavalry!
764
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:45,276
That settles it.
Scatter and make for the woods, boys.
765
01:10:45,351 --> 01:10:47,340
Get home the best way you can.
766
01:11:32,864 --> 01:11:36,856
So, we left the field to the
victors, whoever they might be.
767
01:11:36,935 --> 01:11:40,597
We couldn't have guessed all our plans
were wrecked by the fantastic courage
768
01:11:40,672 --> 01:11:42,935
And determination of one man:
769
01:11:43,008 --> 01:11:46,738
The mild-mannered conductor,
William A. Fuller.
770
01:11:46,812 --> 01:11:51,873
The great locomotive chase was over,
but our troubles were just beginning.
771
01:11:51,950 --> 01:11:55,043
For a week, the country below
Chattanooga was in an uproar,
772
01:11:55,120 --> 01:12:00,352
With soldiers and citizens beating the
backwoods to find the "engine thieves."
773
01:12:00,426 --> 01:12:03,621
I was taken, along with many other
suspicious characters,
774
01:12:03,696 --> 01:12:08,063
To Chattanooga to be questioned at the
headquarters of General Ledbetter.
775
01:12:11,235 --> 01:12:15,035
When it came my turn, I represented
myself as a Southern sympathizer,
776
01:12:15,107 --> 01:12:17,233
Ready to join their army.
777
01:12:20,645 --> 01:12:22,635
Another recruit, General.
778
01:12:22,715 --> 01:12:25,773
A Mr. Pittenger
from Flemingsburg, Kentucky.
779
01:12:25,851 --> 01:12:30,047
- Where'd they find him?
- Wandering the hills above Lafayette.
780
01:12:30,122 --> 01:12:31,849
What were you doing there?
781
01:12:31,923 --> 01:12:33,720
I was on my way to Camp MacDonald.
782
01:12:33,791 --> 01:12:37,249
- Oh, a conscript?
- No, sir, a volunteer.
783
01:12:37,329 --> 01:12:39,318
Why don't you join us?
784
01:12:40,331 --> 01:12:42,731
- I'd be proud to, sir.
- Good.
785
01:12:42,801 --> 01:12:46,201
I think we have just the place
for a smart young lad like you.
786
01:12:46,271 --> 01:12:48,761
- Take care of him, Fletcher.
- Yes, sir.
787
01:13:11,629 --> 01:13:14,689
Did you ever see any of these men before?
788
01:13:15,700 --> 01:13:16,894
No.
789
01:13:16,969 --> 01:13:19,834
That's strange, mighty strange.
790
01:13:19,905 --> 01:13:23,362
Every last one of them's
from Flemingsburg, Kentucky.
791
01:13:27,845 --> 01:13:30,780
Pmengefi Our suffering in prison
would've been easier to bear
792
01:13:30,848 --> 01:13:33,316
Had we not thought our raid a failure.
793
01:13:33,385 --> 01:13:37,445
We could not know that the Southern
newspapers, praising Fuller's bravery,
794
01:13:37,523 --> 01:13:40,581
Were amazed and alarmed that
a handful of Yankee soldiers
795
01:13:40,659 --> 01:13:43,923
Had almost wrecked the Confederacy.
796
01:13:44,128 --> 01:13:46,391
Full 50 times our number
had to be diverted
797
01:13:46,464 --> 01:13:50,593
From Confederate battle lines
for guarding their rail roads and bridges.
798
01:13:50,669 --> 01:13:55,332
AH we knew was that official orders
transferred us from jail to jail...
799
01:13:55,407 --> 01:13:58,068
Chattanooga, Madison, Knoxville.
800
01:13:59,477 --> 01:14:02,468
Now we were being moved again.
801
01:14:13,624 --> 01:14:15,956
Where are you taking 'em, Major?
802
01:14:16,028 --> 01:14:17,152
Atlanta.
803
01:14:17,229 --> 01:14:19,423
Why not just hang 'em up in Chattanooga?
804
01:14:19,498 --> 01:14:22,227
Gotta have a court-martial trial
for them first.
805
01:14:22,301 --> 01:14:24,597
Ain't there no lawyers in Chattanooga?
806
01:14:24,670 --> 01:14:28,798
- I have orders from Richmond.
- No offense, Major.
807
01:14:37,315 --> 01:14:39,043
Mr. Fuller?
808
01:14:39,918 --> 01:14:42,579
May I have a word with you?
809
01:14:42,653 --> 01:14:45,520
You had a word with me, going north.
810
01:14:46,657 --> 01:14:48,716
You're going south now.
811
01:14:48,717 --> 01:14:49,717
4
812
01:15:09,199 --> 01:15:12,657
- No talking in the yard.
- How many Yanks can you lick today?
813
01:15:13,538 --> 01:15:16,801
Any more trouble out of you,
we put you down the hole.
814
01:15:26,383 --> 01:15:29,875
- Captain, assemble your prisoners.
- Line them up, Corporal.
815
01:15:29,954 --> 01:15:30,976
Line 'em up.
816
01:15:31,055 --> 01:15:33,613
Got to read them the sentence
of the court-martial.
817
01:15:33,691 --> 01:15:36,090
- What's the verdict?
- Guilty. All of them.
818
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,650
I heard they were
just hanging the ringleader.
819
01:15:38,728 --> 01:15:41,697
So did I, but the orders
from Richmond said different.
820
01:15:41,766 --> 01:15:44,631
"Hang every last one of them,
on or before the 15th."
821
01:15:52,375 --> 01:15:56,778
♪ Roll, Jordan, roll ♪
822
01:15:56,848 --> 01:16:01,408
♪ Roll, Jordan, roll ♪
823
01:16:01,485 --> 01:16:07,946
♪ I want to go to heaven
When I die ♪
824
01:16:08,025 --> 01:16:12,518
♪ For to hear old Jordan roll ♪
825
01:16:13,597 --> 01:16:18,090
♪ Roll, Jordan, roll ♪
826
01:16:19,269 --> 01:16:22,761
Why not go ask the captain of the guard
to lend you his master key?
827
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:24,772
Then you'd have something to go by.
828
01:16:24,842 --> 01:16:29,107
♪ I want to go to heaven
When I die ♪
829
01:16:29,180 --> 01:16:33,547
♪ For to hear old Jordan roll ♪
830
01:16:36,286 --> 01:16:38,413
. Hey, boys!
' Sir?
831
01:16:38,488 --> 01:16:40,649
Give us Tenting Tonight.
832
01:16:42,692 --> 01:16:47,561
♪ We're tenting tonight
On the old camp ground ♪
833
01:16:48,432 --> 01:16:51,764
♪ Give us a song to cheer ♪
834
01:16:52,769 --> 01:16:57,706
♪ Our weary hearts a song of hope ♪
835
01:16:57,775 --> 01:17:01,505
♪ And friends we love so dear ♪
836
01:17:02,946 --> 01:17:08,042
♪ Many are the hearts
That are weary tonight ♪
837
01:17:08,119 --> 01:17:11,348
♪ Wishing for the war to cease ♪
838
01:17:12,522 --> 01:17:15,354
♪ - Many are the hearts... ♪
- Look!
839
01:17:15,426 --> 01:17:17,017
Look what Knight...
840
01:17:20,263 --> 01:17:23,926
What's going on in there?
Why'd you stop singing?
841
01:17:24,001 --> 01:17:26,332
Why don't you give us the rest of it?
842
01:17:27,437 --> 01:17:31,600
♪ Many are the hearts
That are weary tonight ♪
843
01:17:31,675 --> 01:17:35,542
♪ Wishing for the war to cease ♪
844
01:17:35,613 --> 01:17:39,411
♪ Many are the hearts
Looking for the right ♪
845
01:17:39,483 --> 01:17:43,441
♪ To see the dawn of peace ♪
846
01:17:43,521 --> 01:17:47,820
♪ Tenting tonight
Tenting tonight ♪
847
01:17:47,892 --> 01:17:50,882
♪ Tenting on the old camp ground ♪
848
01:18:00,904 --> 01:18:02,632
So far, so good.
849
01:18:02,706 --> 01:18:04,730
Knight, you give me the key.
850
01:18:04,809 --> 01:18:08,300
Tomorrow when the guards herd us inside
after our breathing time in the yard,
851
01:18:08,379 --> 01:18:11,438
I'll slip under Mr. Turner's bed
and hide there until dark.
852
01:18:11,514 --> 01:18:14,244
When I'm sure he's asleep,
I'll tie him up and gag him,
853
01:18:14,318 --> 01:18:16,751
Steal his cell keys and unlock the doors.
854
01:18:16,821 --> 01:18:20,846
Then we creep past the guards,
climb the wall and run for the woods.
855
01:18:20,924 --> 01:18:22,550
No.
856
01:18:22,627 --> 01:18:24,684
We won't do it that way.
857
01:18:28,231 --> 01:18:31,598
Mr. Andrews,
you keep forgetting we're soldiers.
858
01:18:31,669 --> 01:18:34,932
We trained together, and we know
how to fight together.
859
01:18:35,139 --> 01:18:37,333
We'd rather fight than scheme.
860
01:18:37,408 --> 01:18:39,534
Now you're talking like a man.
861
01:18:39,609 --> 01:18:42,601
If we try to sneak out one by one,
only the first will get away.
862
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:44,942
- The rest'll be cornered.
- That's right.
863
01:18:45,015 --> 01:18:46,277
How would you go at it?
864
01:18:46,349 --> 01:18:50,547
I'd wait until around suppertime, when
it's light enough to see what we're doing.
865
01:18:50,620 --> 01:18:54,283
I'd grab Mr. Turner, take his keys,
and rush the guards outside in a body.
866
01:18:54,358 --> 01:18:57,588
It'll be sudden. Bare hands against
muskets, they won't expect.
867
01:18:57,662 --> 01:18:59,855
- Good!
- It's all right!
868
01:19:00,864 --> 01:19:03,263
What do you think, Mr. Andrews?
869
01:19:05,435 --> 01:19:08,301
Yes, it's a good plan.
870
01:19:08,372 --> 01:19:11,033
Go ahead, Pittenger.
Assign us our positions.
871
01:19:11,107 --> 01:19:13,063
I think Buff um and
I look the least
872
01:19:13,089 --> 01:19:15,466
dangerous, so we'll take
care of Mr. Turner.
873
01:19:15,512 --> 01:19:17,911
We'll want the biggest men
to rush the guards.
874
01:19:21,117 --> 01:19:23,107
Campbell, you're the first.
875
01:19:27,657 --> 01:19:29,647
Then Ross, I guess.
876
01:19:29,648 --> 01:19:30,648
4
877
01:20:00,576 --> 01:20:02,840
Through with them bread tins, boys?
878
01:20:04,313 --> 01:20:08,306
Boys, I'm sorry about the hangin'.
879
01:20:08,385 --> 01:20:11,842
That's all right, Mr. Turner.
We've all got to go sometime.
880
01:20:11,922 --> 01:20:16,983
Would you be good enough to ask the
captain of the guard to fix my chain?
881
01:20:17,060 --> 01:20:18,185
Why...!
882
01:20:41,084 --> 01:20:46,020
- Corporal, post your guard.
- MacDonald and Irvine, south post.
883
01:20:55,364 --> 01:20:56,364
Get back!
884
01:20:57,967 --> 01:20:59,457
Guards!
885
01:21:36,507 --> 01:21:37,938
Get back in!
886
01:21:39,008 --> 01:21:40,498
Try the wall!
887
01:21:44,747 --> 01:21:45,873
Guards!
888
01:21:46,450 --> 01:21:48,974
Tall ones help the others over the wall.
889
01:21:54,423 --> 01:21:59,292
Outside! They're climbing the walls!
Head 'em off outside!
890
01:22:03,866 --> 01:22:05,265
Around back!
891
01:22:17,513 --> 01:22:19,481
Come on! Get over!
892
01:22:31,427 --> 01:22:33,019
Go on! Go!
893
01:23:29,852 --> 01:23:32,252
- Is that all you caught?
- So far.
894
01:23:33,056 --> 01:23:35,580
I got the two big ones upstairs.
895
01:23:39,662 --> 01:23:42,858
You needn't have come back to help me.
896
01:23:42,933 --> 01:23:44,922
I didn't.
897
01:23:46,335 --> 01:23:49,270
I had to see how many of 'em
it'd take to lay me out.
898
01:23:50,673 --> 01:23:53,733
You mean, you'd hang for that?
899
01:23:54,411 --> 01:23:57,902
Yeah. Any day in the week.
900
01:24:00,349 --> 01:24:02,749
You shouldn't hate them that much.
901
01:24:02,819 --> 01:24:06,686
I don't. Not anymore.
902
01:24:06,757 --> 01:24:10,953
I thought they was a bag of wind,
but they ain't.
903
01:24:11,961 --> 01:24:14,361
They done all right.
904
01:24:15,498 --> 01:24:17,693
You done all right, too.
905
01:24:17,768 --> 01:24:19,700
You really showed 'em.
906
01:24:21,304 --> 01:24:24,500
There's one more thing
we're gonna have to show 'em.
907
01:24:24,573 --> 01:24:26,564
What's that?
908
01:24:27,244 --> 01:24:30,302
That we know how to die.
909
01:24:30,303 --> 01:24:31,303
4
910
01:24:39,108 --> 01:24:40,769
Mr. Fuller?
911
01:24:41,345 --> 01:24:42,833
Well, Reverend Scott!
912
01:24:42,913 --> 01:24:45,278
'Morning, sir.
You riding with us today?
913
01:24:45,349 --> 01:24:48,806
No, I've been to the jail,
praying with the condemned prisoners.
914
01:24:48,886 --> 01:24:52,377
One of them, a Mr. Andrews,
asked to see you.
915
01:24:54,090 --> 01:24:56,285
I gave him my promise you'd come.
916
01:24:56,360 --> 01:25:00,727
He had a fair trial, and I gave
all my testimony to the court.
917
01:25:00,798 --> 01:25:05,233
Anything further I might have to say to him
would be of small comfort to him now.
918
01:25:08,438 --> 01:25:09,927
Mr. Andrews?
919
01:25:25,355 --> 01:25:27,515
Thank you for coming.
920
01:25:27,591 --> 01:25:33,995
Mr. Fuller, I wanted you to know
I'm sorry I had to deceive you.
921
01:25:35,331 --> 01:25:37,321
I guess you'll be paying for it.
922
01:25:37,401 --> 01:25:40,391
Yes. I'm gonna hang.
923
01:25:40,470 --> 01:25:43,268
I wasn't talking about that.
924
01:25:43,339 --> 01:25:46,797
You whipped me fair and square,
925
01:25:46,877 --> 01:25:52,041
But now that it's all over,
I hoped you wouldn't hold a grudge.
926
01:25:52,116 --> 01:25:57,052
I haven't much use for a man who poses
as a loyal Southerner, and isn't.
927
01:25:57,121 --> 01:25:59,952
I was fighting for my convictions.
928
01:26:00,024 --> 01:26:02,718
My only weapons were the lies
a spy must tell.
929
01:26:03,726 --> 01:26:06,319
You fought in your way;
If ought in mine.
930
01:26:09,265 --> 01:26:14,361
Some day the fighting will be over,
and both sides will have to shake hands.
931
01:26:14,438 --> 01:26:17,371
I won't be alive to see that day.
932
01:26:18,374 --> 01:26:20,967
Couldn't we do it now?
933
01:26:26,916 --> 01:26:30,681
I'd be glad if you would, sir.
934
01:26:43,866 --> 01:26:46,460
Your leader was a most unusual man;
935
01:26:46,537 --> 01:26:48,867
Resourceful, brave and true.
936
01:26:48,939 --> 01:26:51,770
So were your comrades
who perished with him.
937
01:26:51,842 --> 01:26:54,605
As soldiers, they will receive,
posthumously,
938
01:26:54,678 --> 01:26:56,906
The same award you are wearing now.
939
01:26:56,980 --> 01:27:00,574
Though the Congressional order
must exclude Mr. Andrews himself,
940
01:27:00,651 --> 01:27:04,483
As a civilian, he will receive
an even higher decoration;
941
01:27:04,555 --> 01:27:07,283
The commendation of history.
942
01:27:07,357 --> 01:27:09,688
Because you dared and suffered with him,
943
01:27:09,760 --> 01:27:13,160
I know he would be as proud
to have his men receive this honor
944
01:27:13,230 --> 01:27:16,357
As we are to bestow it.
945
01:27:16,433 --> 01:27:18,559
That means a great deal to us, sir.
946
01:27:18,634 --> 01:27:21,346
Thank you.
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