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We'll be able to see the Fort
from the top of the next rise.
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There she is, Fort Lincoln, base of the
finest cavalry regiment in the country.
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And our home.
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What's the matter Tom?
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The guys from flag isn't flying,
it's a good three hours before retreat.
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- I wonder what's happened.
- I don't know.
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- See that little gully there?
- Yes.
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Take Ma'am and the crew of pack horses,
stay out of sight and I'll come for you.
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- Tom, I should...
- Now, don't worry, I won't be long.
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Just keep under cover.
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Breck, Calhoun...
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Lacy, Dekker.
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Go on, call them louder.
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- Call in the mood of the dead.
- Charlotte?
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But you're not dead, are you Captain Benson?
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You're standing there alive because
another man died in your place, my man.
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Charlotte, get hold of
yourself, what's happened here?
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You were Custer's favorite.
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Why don't you ride out to Little
Big Horn and ask him what happened?
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And ask him why he put Captain Jim Reynolds,
my husband in command of C troop, your troop.
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When he knew that
Jim wasn't fit for doing service.
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You knew it too.
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You know that Jim hadn't recover from the
wounds he got last year fighting the Sioux.
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It's your great general talking.
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And he died in your place.
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Tell me, what you're talking about?
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Did you bring back
your bride to be Captain Benson?
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Look at me, I was
a bride too, an onomie bride.
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What, what happened here?
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Dead, all dead.
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All those who were with Custer.
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Massacred, slaughtered.
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Sitting Bull making big medicine
with the so braves around the fire.
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And the Sioux squaws,
with the knifes in their hands...
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amongst the bodies of our dead they wounded.
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And my Jim, warned to dead.
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Bates.
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Oh Captain Benson's.
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If you'd got and
excuse it better be a good one.
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It got out of hands,
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Captain Benson, good old captain,
you're on your honeymoon sir?
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- Kruger.
- Yes sir, old Sergeant Kruger dismiss sir.
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I'm only going to ask you one about this.
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When the regiment left, I
was detailed to pro those guards.
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To keep these prisoners and
drunks from getting out of hand.
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When I heard about the news and how
it happened, I decided to let them go.
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I didn't think that you
be kill like rats in the trap.
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Specially if chief Crazy Horse and
his braves decide to jump the fort.
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Yes sir, old Bates here is a regular
little Napoleon, giving orders...
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- is like a major general.
- I had to let them go.
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Because they're the only men
we have left to defend the post.
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But they got out and sack the stores.
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- Got into the liquor.
- So?
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Get them on their feet and fit for doing.
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Alright, bright and shine, the wake is over.
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Present, arms.
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Rest, arms.
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Bates, Kruger, come with me,
The rest of you men, take your post.
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Here they come.
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All is left is 5 troops of the 7th cavalry.
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Looks like the squadron went down
with Custer wasn't the only one...
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had a rough a time in Little Big Horn.
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Ed.
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- Ed...
- Hi.
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It is Vic, Custer's mount, isn't it?
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No sir, this is Dandy,
the general second mount..
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They're boys and hard to tell
apart, the general was riding Vic's.
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But you were with Custer too,
you were his beagle model.
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I was this winter, when we go
back snack into the hole Sioux nation.
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General Custer sent me back
with an order to Captain Benteen.
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Was the only lucky one sir,
Nothing is back from Custer...
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If general don't send me
back with that order...
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Morrison, is it true the
whole of C troops is wipe out?
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They never had a chance sir.
They're outnumbered 15 to 20 to 1.
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The Sioux had Winchester repeater against
our one single shot and more ammunition.
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You know that country
Captain, we scout there together, it's bad.
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Looks flat but it isn't.
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Full of dips and rises that can hide 10,000
until you're right in the middle of them.
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Soon the Chayannes seems
to come out right off the ground.
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I saw it all from the top
of the hill, 5 minutes after I moved away.
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Been seeing nothing else since.
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Will go on seen I guess,
over and over and over again.
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A darn day.
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Just saw it won't come as a surprise.
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I'm asking for a transfer out of this outfit
as soon as I can write out a request.
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- Before we square things with the Sioux?
- Do my squaring thing with another regiment.
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This one station is not my concern.
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Want to know why it happen Bob?
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You can read all about it
in the official reports captain.
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All of you were there, you most know.
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- I'm not prepare to venture an opinion sir.
- If you have an opinion I want it.
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What is this? A one man court of inquiry?
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I had a reason for wanting to know the truth.
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Worried about your General's reputation?
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I tell you one thing, the precious little
of the last ones if truth is known.
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Come on, get it
off your chest whatever it is.
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Alright, I give you my opinion.
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Little Big Horn just probe
what I thought of Custer all along.
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He thought he was god almighty
and couldn't lose in any situation.
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- I want the facts.
- And I'll give you the facts.
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He disobey orders.
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Deliberately set the stage so if there
was any glory he'd be the one to grab it.
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That's why he had our men butchered,
Custer is no better than the Indians.
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I'm sorry, Bob. I lost my self-control.
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Seems as if you do your best
fighting in the officers quarters.
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- Miss Kellogg?
- Yes.
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Where is Captain Benson?
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I don't know Mrs. Reynolds,
probably going about his duties.
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Duties, how convenient?
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How very convenient
everything is been to him.
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Are you trying to
suggest that Captain Benson left his post...
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to bring me back knowing that General
Custer was going to attack when he was gone?
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Captain Benson was closer
to General Custer that anyone.
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He must've known his plans.
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- Can anyone actually believe that?
- I can believe it Miss Kellogg.
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- Why do you believe it lieutenant?
- Personal reasons.
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You understand Miss Kellogg that we all have
the greatest respect for you and your father.
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I believe we were discussing Captain Benson.
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Very well. So one, I
never consider that Benson belong.
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He wasn't West Point.
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If that enable to make up
my mind just exactly where he was.
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Are you implying that
Captain Benson is not a gentleman?
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Yous Captain Benson
fiancee Miss Kellogg, you certain must...
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be well acquainted with of his background.
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You tell me.
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Professional gambler, in the river boat.
A faro deal before he come in the service.
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I think he knew what was coming, decided
not to stake his life in such a mad gamble.
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So he appeal the Custer well
known sentimental nature and back off.
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Fetch you from Fort Supply.
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If I were a man lieutenant
Fitch, I'd know how to answer you.
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You maybe gone too far Bob,
you forget her father is Colonel Kellogg.
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Her father shares my opinion
about our gallant Captain Benson.
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Why didn't you come to Captain Benteen's?
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Oh, I'm not exactly
in the mood for social calls.
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Hardly a social one.
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Tom, why didn't you tell me about the
river boat? About been a gambler?
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I wanted to, we
talked it over the general and I.
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We decided that was
nobody is business what I was.
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You could've told me.
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But it's all in a long dead past,
not that I'm apologizing for it.
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Did you think, did you think
it would change things?
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I know your father, a general of the old army
school, he's not to fond of me, you know.
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You weren't marrying my father.
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I wasn't so sure I'd be able to marry
you until I practically carry you off.
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- I'm sorry I had to hear from someone else.
- Fitch?
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Wouldn't had been
Fitch would be someone sometime.
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He made a passage once, on
the Silver Queen, my father's boat.
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- I don't care what...
- Wait.
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I want you to hear it all, from me.
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I dealt Faro on the
Silver Queen, I did a lot of other things.
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I was drifter, flesh one day,
built the next, good looking bad.
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Between seasons on the river, I scouted
for the army, that's how I met George Custer.
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He saw me on the army,
and brought me into the 7th Cavalry.
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But I'm glad this story
about the Silver Queen came up...
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because it makes a little
easier for me do something I must do.
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You going back to Fort Supply.
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- When are we leaving?
- I'm not, you are.
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I'm not going anyplace without you.
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Don't you understand?
The daughter of colonel Kellogg...
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married to one who would always
be known as the man who won't there.
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Oh Tom, the blame
is killing you as a culprit.
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When your men might've
needed you, you weren't with them.
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- My place was with them.
- And my place is with you.
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So I feel if the man I love
needs me, I wasn't with him.
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Oh, is no use Martha, it's best yo go back.
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At ease Morrison.
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I guess I've play taps over a thousand
times since I've been in the army sir.
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But tonight's somehow is, is different.
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Yes Tonight I think I really
heard and understood for the first time.
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It's a sad cause, sort of
like saying good bye to old friends.
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- A Requiem for the regiment.
- Yes sir.
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I won't be seen you for a while Captain.
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I'm riding through to Fort Supply,
with a dispatch to colonel Kellogg.
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- Is miss Martha know?
- No sir, I just received the order.
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Major Reno is insisting
in Colonel Kellogg come here to...
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conduct a court of inquiry
into what happened out there.
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- I know sir, you wanted to be there.
- Thank you Morrison.
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Good afternoon Charlotte Mrs. Brennan Mrs...
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- You send for me sir.
- Yes, I did.
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Been sighting your request for and escort
to take Miss Kellogg to Fort Supply.
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- It is refused.
- On what grounds sir?
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One, not sufficient men are
available for such an expedition.
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Two Miss Kellogg states that she
is no intention of returning to Fort Supply.
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Which I can understand
since her father is coming here.
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I'm sorry disappoint you.
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I suppose when you asked for active service
it was you intention to command her escort.
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Such was not my intention.
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When I asked for active service I asked
for duties related to my rank of Captain.
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Very well Benson, I'll
see what I can find for you to do.
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Detail, attention.
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Dress right, dress.
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How's the mind of the fallen?
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I hadn't happen to take of much
scaredy recruits to the rifle range.
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He asked for assignment,
the adjutant sure took care of him.
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Don't worry about him,
he's already taken care of.
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If his brother officers had their way
their bury him with the rest of the garbage.
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Capt Benson wasn't the only one who had other
business when he should've been with Custer
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I don't seem to recall you were there.
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One, two, one two.
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Detail, halt.
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- At ease Benson.
- Good afternoon Colonel Kellogg.
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What is this?
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Recruit target practice
on their way of wide range sir.
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- And you're in command, on foot?
- Yes sir, it's a special duty sir.
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Your daughter Martha
will be happy to see you.
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- Are the two of you married yet?
- No sir.
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Good.
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Forward, march.
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Gentlemen, as you know I'm here
to conduct an official investigation...
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into the reasons of this shocking defeat.
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By direct order of the
President of the United States.
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It's my duty to establish the truth,
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the elements that led to this disaster.
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Who is to blame?
Why did Custer divided his command?
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Where were the officers and
their men who could've supported him?
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Were certain officers
derelict on their duties?
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At the height of his career
as an Indian fighter.
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A brave, experienced officer
lead 5 troops of cavalry to their deaths.
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Where was the rest
of his command when he died?
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Why was Custer unsupported in
the hour of his greatest need?
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Major Reno...
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the support of you battalion
could've saved Custer, don't you agreed?
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I, I don't know sir.
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Surely you know how
desperately he needed help.
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No sir.
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Come now Major Reno, you were
there, you knew what was happening.
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You had guides and scouts and messengers.
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Commander like Custer would
never lose contact with his officers.
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That was exactly what he did sir.
230
00:23:01,295 --> 00:23:04,137
Are you suggesting that
he didn't ask for support?
231
00:23:04,484 --> 00:23:08,640
Yes sir, as a matter of fact, was he
would promised to support my battalion.
232
00:23:09,049 --> 00:23:10,469
You have orders to that effect?
233
00:23:10,756 --> 00:23:13,008
My orders were cross
the Little Big Horn river and...
234
00:23:13,038 --> 00:23:15,033
charge the Indian the edge on the other side.
235
00:23:15,381 --> 00:23:18,857
I was told by the adjutant that
I was to be supported by the whole outfit.
236
00:23:19,401 --> 00:23:22,379
- You carried out your orders?
- As far as I could sir.
237
00:23:22,409 --> 00:23:26,053
Until I found myself under a murderous
attack faced by impossible arms.
238
00:23:26,083 --> 00:23:28,215
We seem out numbered 10 to 1.
239
00:23:28,441 --> 00:23:32,068
I send a messenger for the support
I'd been promised but never came.
240
00:23:32,672 --> 00:23:34,879
My battalion was
forced to fall back to the river.
241
00:23:36,103 --> 00:23:40,713
Isn't it true then that with your withdraw
let the Indians free to massacre Custer?
242
00:23:40,743 --> 00:23:44,400
I couldn't help him sir, I had to try
to save what was left of my battalion.
243
00:23:44,793 --> 00:23:48,087
- But your orders were to engage the Indians.
- They weren't feasible.
244
00:23:48,375 --> 00:23:50,098
Custer foolishly divided his regiment into...
245
00:23:50,128 --> 00:23:52,305
3 battalions when he
should've kept his command intact.
246
00:23:52,335 --> 00:23:53,740
I object to that statement Major.
247
00:23:54,027 --> 00:23:56,853
You're condemning the general's decisions
without explaining why he made it.
248
00:23:56,883 --> 00:23:58,500
I'm not interested in why he made it.
249
00:23:58,530 --> 00:24:01,039
I only know it was an
invitation to disaster and it came.
250
00:24:01,069 --> 00:24:03,453
It's easy to assassinate the
military military reputation of a...
251
00:24:03,483 --> 00:24:06,385
- dead man who's not here to defend himself.
- Order, order.
252
00:24:07,050 --> 00:24:09,318
I'm not allow this
proceedings to be interrupted.
253
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,278
Particularly by an officer
can only theorize about the battle.
254
00:24:14,079 --> 00:24:16,482
- That's all anyone's doing...
- Sit down Captain.
255
00:24:20,593 --> 00:24:24,658
Were you also unaware the fact that
your General did support Captain Benteen?
256
00:24:24,848 --> 00:24:26,873
No sir, I knew he need it.
257
00:24:27,402 --> 00:24:30,531
I received and urgent order to join
him and bring up the ammunition banks.
258
00:24:30,712 --> 00:24:33,266
- Did you obeyed that order?
- I tried.
259
00:24:34,369 --> 00:24:36,061
Just what you mean by that captain?
260
00:24:37,331 --> 00:24:39,644
The Indians were
attacking when I came to the river.
261
00:24:39,886 --> 00:24:42,017
I thought that was
general Custer who's been attacked.
262
00:24:42,425 --> 00:24:44,798
I form my battalion
in lines and moved up to cross.
263
00:24:45,311 --> 00:24:48,742
But when we was close enough I saw was
that Major Reno battalion who was in trouble.
264
00:24:49,256 --> 00:24:52,868
- I order my battalion to help.
- But your orders were to help Custer.
265
00:24:53,382 --> 00:24:57,674
There was no way through, we faced a
horde of savages arm with repeating rifles.
266
00:24:58,126 --> 00:25:00,492
Rather than has my
men charge that force of Indians...
267
00:25:00,885 --> 00:25:03,046
I joined forces with major Reno platoon.
268
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:07,226
Together you could've charge
the Indians, but you withdraw, why?
269
00:25:07,905 --> 00:25:11,329
Half of Major Reno's men were already
dead or wounded when I joined him.
270
00:25:11,660 --> 00:25:13,761
Go on would've been
suicide for the rest of us.
271
00:25:14,147 --> 00:25:16,913
A supposition captain,
not necessarily a fact.
272
00:25:17,819 --> 00:25:19,920
I exercise my judgment as an officer.
273
00:25:20,177 --> 00:25:21,507
But by doing so, you knew that...
274
00:25:21,537 --> 00:25:24,454
your decision was abandoning
your commanding officer to his fate.
275
00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:26,737
How could I be certain of that sir?
276
00:25:27,386 --> 00:25:31,391
Why not Captain? When you're
so sure it was suicide to join him.
277
00:25:31,421 --> 00:25:33,900
- Now, listen Captain Benson...
- Captain Benson...
278
00:25:34,330 --> 00:25:36,929
I'm quite capable
of conducting this investigation.
279
00:25:37,353 --> 00:25:39,997
You will remain silent or I have you removed.
280
00:25:45,694 --> 00:25:49,231
Now, both of you officers appears
to have tried to carry out your orders.
281
00:25:50,033 --> 00:25:51,756
Apparently, didn't tried hard enough.
282
00:25:51,786 --> 00:25:54,355
Whatever his orders
were sir, they were premature.
283
00:25:54,385 --> 00:25:57,363
- Premature?
- According to field order in your desk sir.
284
00:25:57,666 --> 00:26:01,444
Custer was instructed to await the
arrival of General Givens infantry on the 26.
285
00:26:01,671 --> 00:26:04,950
Instead, he went to gaze
Indians on his own, on the 25.
286
00:26:05,631 --> 00:26:07,082
Obviously you went into battle...
287
00:26:07,112 --> 00:26:09,394
with no feeling
of confidence in your commanding officer.
288
00:26:11,374 --> 00:26:16,951
Captain Benteen, did you have confidence
in Custer and in his plan of battle?
289
00:26:17,315 --> 00:26:20,700
How much confidence can you have in a
man who refused to believe the reports...
290
00:26:20,730 --> 00:26:24,493
of his scouts when they tell him that his not
only facing the whole of the Sioux nation...
291
00:26:24,931 --> 00:26:26,639
but thousands of Cheyennes as well.
292
00:26:26,834 --> 00:26:28,935
A man who insisted
he can defeat all the savages...
293
00:26:28,965 --> 00:26:31,217
ever gather together
with one regimen of cavalry,
294
00:26:31,247 --> 00:26:34,074
- The 7th Captain.
- Yes, the 7th.
295
00:26:34,301 --> 00:26:36,432
Colonel, these officers
are trying to cover their own mistakes...
296
00:26:36,462 --> 00:26:39,885
- I've been very patient with you Benson.
- This is any investigation...
297
00:26:39,886 --> 00:26:42,566
this is a whitewashing
party at the expense of General Custer's.
298
00:26:42,567 --> 00:26:45,273
Captain Benson, you're confine to quarters...
299
00:26:45,802 --> 00:26:48,734
until tomorrow, this
time I'll inquire into your conduct...
300
00:26:48,764 --> 00:26:50,412
seems to be very open to question.
301
00:27:05,011 --> 00:27:09,907
- How it go darling?
- Words, words, words.
302
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,586
Forgive me my dear, I haven't had the chance
to speak 3 words to you since I got here.
303
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,909
I even been had a chance
take a good look at you.
304
00:27:22,752 --> 00:27:24,206
Little pick-in.
305
00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:28,797
Then this to be expected,
a long ride from Supply...
306
00:27:29,433 --> 00:27:31,424
and what you found after you got here.
307
00:27:33,063 --> 00:27:36,947
It's one thing I devoutly thankful for,
you're not married to Benson.
308
00:27:39,343 --> 00:27:42,668
Father I, I want to talk to you about Tom.
309
00:27:44,013 --> 00:27:48,123
I'm afraid there's very little that I care
to discuss concerning Captain Benson.
310
00:27:48,976 --> 00:27:53,586
- Less now and never.
- Can you just listen to me?
311
00:27:54,386 --> 00:27:56,804
I've tried to forget you
dislike for Tom for my sake.
312
00:27:57,001 --> 00:28:00,590
I've tolerated it for your sake.
Don't ask me to change my opinion.
313
00:28:03,054 --> 00:28:05,170
I'm going to marry him if he'll have me.
314
00:28:05,820 --> 00:28:08,571
Marry a man who's practically
an outcast from the service?
315
00:28:08,904 --> 00:28:12,335
A man is been annihilated
and punished for no good reason.
316
00:28:13,499 --> 00:28:18,970
- He's complained to you, I suppose.
- He even commented, just takes it.
317
00:28:19,347 --> 00:28:20,360
Thick skin, eh?
318
00:28:23,958 --> 00:28:27,630
Doesn't matter to you how, how I
feel about the way he's been treated?
319
00:28:28,627 --> 00:28:30,230
It matters a great deal my dear.
320
00:28:30,864 --> 00:28:34,794
It was to spare your feelings that I close
your interest in Benson since the beginning.
321
00:28:35,293 --> 00:28:39,509
I know it to be a mistake, a dreadful
mistake, that you'd have reasons to regret.
322
00:28:40,461 --> 00:28:42,396
I've no reasons to regret.
323
00:28:43,634 --> 00:28:45,947
Tom Benson is more than just a gentleman...
324
00:28:46,295 --> 00:28:49,040
by act of Congress or
by appointment of the President.
325
00:28:49,317 --> 00:28:52,848
When he came to Supply to get you,
to bring back here you were his bride.
326
00:28:53,050 --> 00:28:56,299
I couldn't lock you up,
confine you in chains.
327
00:28:56,707 --> 00:28:59,337
But I told you I'd never him as a son in law.
328
00:28:59,805 --> 00:29:02,661
The general Custer
executive and his closest friend.
329
00:29:02,964 --> 00:29:04,766
At the moment General Custer's preference...
330
00:29:04,767 --> 00:29:07,067
hardly constitute a
recommendation for anyone.
331
00:29:09,005 --> 00:29:12,043
Then I can even beg
you to help stop this prosecution.
332
00:29:12,980 --> 00:29:14,915
I got to do my duty my dear.
333
00:29:16,395 --> 00:29:18,386
And that duty includes an inquiry into the...
334
00:29:18,416 --> 00:29:23,829
circumstances the absence of Thomas Benson
from his command at a time of dire need.
335
00:29:24,651 --> 00:29:27,505
You know Custer gave him
his permission to come and get me.
336
00:29:28,333 --> 00:29:30,392
That is yet to be officially establish.
337
00:29:31,288 --> 00:29:35,109
Why don't you go on him?
Try him for cowardice?
338
00:29:35,593 --> 00:29:41,788
- For desertion in face of the enemy.
- I'm sorry for you Martha, terribly sorry.
339
00:29:42,715 --> 00:29:43,939
Please don't do.
340
00:29:44,788 --> 00:29:48,186
The more you drive him,
the further down I'd go with him.
341
00:29:52,025 --> 00:29:53,309
Martha...
342
00:29:56,921 --> 00:29:59,249
Stay you name, rank
on the section, for the record.
343
00:29:59,279 --> 00:30:04,251
Thomas Benson Captain, 7th US Cavalry,
commanding C troop. Now un-existing.
344
00:30:04,568 --> 00:30:07,939
Of all the officers in the regiment, you
were the one closest to General Custer?
345
00:30:07,969 --> 00:30:09,299
Had he discussed this
campaign with you in advance?
346
00:30:09,329 --> 00:30:12,427
Did he ever discuss the campaign
that turn in disaster with you?
347
00:30:12,457 --> 00:30:13,213
He did sir.
348
00:30:13,214 --> 00:30:15,814
And you knew the purpose of the plan action?
349
00:30:15,843 --> 00:30:18,578
To round up the hostiles up
the reservation and return them.
350
00:30:18,971 --> 00:30:21,465
Custer thought this
was an easy task, I suppose.
351
00:30:21,904 --> 00:30:25,108
General Custer been in too many
fights with the Sioux to believe that sir.
352
00:30:25,410 --> 00:30:29,846
And why did you request leave of absence to
pursue your private affairs in such a time?
353
00:30:30,284 --> 00:30:33,671
I absent myself with a
direct order of General Custer.
354
00:30:34,563 --> 00:30:37,691
- But you did absent yourself?
- Yes sir.
355
00:30:38,507 --> 00:30:41,288
Captain Benson, you know
that General Custer was once...
356
00:30:41,318 --> 00:30:44,960
court martialed for absent himself from
his command in order to visit his wife?
357
00:30:45,385 --> 00:30:47,643
Col. Kellogg, I consider that statement...
358
00:30:47,673 --> 00:30:50,363
highly improper and prejudicial
on the part of presiding officer...
359
00:30:50,393 --> 00:30:53,041
of this investigation and completely
irrelevant to the proceeding.
360
00:30:53,049 --> 00:30:56,031
I need no instructions as to
help conduct this investigation.
361
00:30:56,061 --> 00:30:59,492
Then you should know the difference
between hearsay and evidence sir.
362
00:31:01,657 --> 00:31:03,922
Have you a copy of
this order granting leave??
363
00:31:04,135 --> 00:31:06,207
- No sir.
- May I ask why?
364
00:31:06,410 --> 00:31:09,188
General Custer permission
for absent myself was verbal sir.
365
00:31:10,002 --> 00:31:12,635
What you're up to this
verbal leave of absence?
366
00:31:12,751 --> 00:31:14,387
A private discussion of my affairs sir.
367
00:31:15,053 --> 00:31:18,470
In a inquiry such as this
I can not rule anything is private.
368
00:31:20,582 --> 00:31:22,605
Very well sir, I accept your rule.
369
00:31:23,457 --> 00:31:25,963
General Custer was aware
of the difficulties I was having in...
370
00:31:25,993 --> 00:31:28,625
persuading a certain
young lady to become my wife.
371
00:31:28,741 --> 00:31:32,651
Do to objections to our
marriage in certain quarters sir.
372
00:31:32,981 --> 00:31:36,069
I see, General Custer was acting cupid.
373
00:31:36,321 --> 00:31:38,789
General Custer was a great human been sir.
374
00:31:39,661 --> 00:31:42,263
What was the exact
nature of this verbal orders...
375
00:31:42,293 --> 00:31:44,906
grant you leave to
pursue an affair of the heart?
376
00:31:45,236 --> 00:31:48,120
- You want his exact words sir?
- I do.
377
00:31:49,495 --> 00:31:53,743
He said Benson, I want you to show enough
conscience to drive off to Fort Supply...
378
00:31:53,773 --> 00:31:55,468
bring back that girl and marry her.
379
00:31:55,498 --> 00:31:58,691
If anyone stands in your
way by refusing to be a party...
380
00:31:58,721 --> 00:32:00,515
to the happiness of his own daughter...
381
00:32:00,516 --> 00:32:03,386
then by god forget the
father that I find a way myself.
382
00:32:10,903 --> 00:32:13,457
I would give anything to see his face.
383
00:32:13,487 --> 00:32:16,132
- I was only quoting General Custer/
- He deserves it.
384
00:32:16,162 --> 00:32:18,716
I really didn't like to
do it, but he asked for it.
385
00:32:19,109 --> 00:32:21,089
I wonder what the finding
will be in this case.
386
00:32:21,119 --> 00:32:22,206
Oh, the good old English verdict...
387
00:32:22,236 --> 00:32:25,334
not prove by reason of
insufficiency evidence, a stand off.
388
00:32:25,773 --> 00:32:28,936
I can't prove the General
Custer did authorize my absent.
389
00:32:28,966 --> 00:32:30,281
They can't prove that he didn't.
390
00:32:30,659 --> 00:32:31,823
But one thing.
391
00:32:32,110 --> 00:32:34,967
I'm going to held your father
to return me to useful active...
392
00:32:34,997 --> 00:32:37,076
duty or quick me off, one or the other.
393
00:32:37,829 --> 00:32:40,187
Will you stop worrying?
394
00:32:45,582 --> 00:32:47,471
- Attention.
- At ease.
395
00:32:48,318 --> 00:32:52,700
Gentlemen, I just received an order, an
order of the President of the United States.
396
00:32:53,849 --> 00:32:55,360
It says in part...
397
00:32:56,448 --> 00:32:59,320
a burial detail will proceed
to the valley of Little Big Horn...
398
00:32:59,350 --> 00:33:02,175
to the purpose of interring
the bodies and marking the graves...
399
00:33:02,205 --> 00:33:04,850
of the 7th Cavalry not properly buried.
400
00:33:05,395 --> 00:33:07,859
The bodies of the
officers will be place in caskets...
401
00:33:07,889 --> 00:33:10,851
and returned to Fort Lincoln
for shipment to their families.
402
00:33:10,881 --> 00:33:12,211
Burial detail?
403
00:33:12,241 --> 00:33:16,563
But sir, the President doesn't
seem to realize the impossibility.
404
00:33:17,144 --> 00:33:20,567
The country around that
battlefield is so swamp with hostiles.
405
00:33:20,794 --> 00:33:23,167
Crazy Horse and his
braves are drunk with victory.
406
00:33:23,197 --> 00:33:24,165
Worse than that.
407
00:33:24,195 --> 00:33:27,384
Sitting Bull is declare that ground
big medicine for the whole Sioux nation.
408
00:33:27,414 --> 00:33:31,358
You moving there with troops,
they'll be down the next like wolfs.
409
00:33:31,766 --> 00:33:36,361
But a direct order from the
President must be carried out, somehow.
410
00:33:36,391 --> 00:33:40,819
No matter what the quarters
call but sir, I'd like the assignment.
411
00:33:41,847 --> 00:33:43,993
You're aware of the risk involve?
412
00:33:44,023 --> 00:33:47,046
Yes sir and I don't believe
that will disturb too many people.
413
00:33:48,051 --> 00:33:49,020
Very well...
414
00:33:50,514 --> 00:33:53,507
it would be an impossibility for me
give you more than two troops.
415
00:33:53,537 --> 00:33:57,240
A force of that size would defeat
your purpose, as major Reno states...
416
00:33:57,270 --> 00:34:00,550
to move into that area openly
with a force of any strength...
417
00:34:00,731 --> 00:34:02,364
would be to invite another massacre.
418
00:34:02,545 --> 00:34:05,069
Perhaps the Captain intends in going alone.
419
00:34:06,822 --> 00:34:10,434
No Lieutenant Fitch,
I'm moving in with volunteers.
420
00:34:13,113 --> 00:34:15,849
But Captain Benson,
attend to reason, if one thing is sure...
421
00:34:15,879 --> 00:34:19,392
- What's the matter sergeant?
- It's suicide, plain suicide.
422
00:34:19,422 --> 00:34:21,386
I mean they're out there,
they think they own the country.
423
00:34:21,416 --> 00:34:22,747
Small party wouldn't have a chance.
424
00:34:22,777 --> 00:34:25,781
- Say you're refusing the duty.
- This is for volunteer,
425
00:34:25,811 --> 00:34:27,701
Is that what's troubling you sergeant?
426
00:34:29,167 --> 00:34:32,409
- If you got the guts to go...
- You volunteering then?
427
00:34:33,558 --> 00:34:37,049
- What is the duty sir?
- I'll acquaintance with the detail later.
428
00:34:37,079 --> 00:34:40,721
Just see that this men and supplies are fit
and ready to move out at a moment notice.
429
00:34:40,948 --> 00:34:43,517
But you got the name
of every scoundrel, drunk...
430
00:34:43,547 --> 00:34:46,464
no good guard house, rat and shark
on the whole outfit on this list.
431
00:34:46,494 --> 00:34:51,348
Hey, you wrong, they're all
volunteers, even if they don't know it yet.
432
00:34:52,784 --> 00:34:55,686
Yeah, volunteers?
433
00:35:06,446 --> 00:35:10,088
Alright, get set volunteers,
your captain await you.
434
00:35:13,632 --> 00:35:15,534
I'd like to fix the captain's wagon for him.
435
00:35:15,535 --> 00:35:17,835
You won't have Joe, it's been fix.
436
00:35:17,864 --> 00:35:20,357
Yeah, but he's still the best
troop commander in the outfit.
437
00:35:20,629 --> 00:35:23,107
Well, what's happened to you Kruger?
Getting really like him.
438
00:35:23,137 --> 00:35:25,022
They getting soft in the head Kruger.
439
00:35:25,186 --> 00:35:27,407
It's alright by me that
Custer body left where it is.
440
00:35:27,437 --> 00:35:29,523
Oh no, you can't do that.
441
00:35:30,309 --> 00:35:32,848
We are picked men,
the captain picked us himself.
442
00:35:32,878 --> 00:35:34,359
Yeah, you know why?
443
00:35:34,389 --> 00:35:38,077
Because we've been living in borrow time, we
weren't with Custer when we should've been.
444
00:35:38,395 --> 00:35:41,675
Oh, blow his nose Dickson,
I think his going to bust our boy.
445
00:35:43,836 --> 00:35:46,995
- Coffee is good.
- Don't change the subject now.
446
00:35:47,690 --> 00:35:50,350
Did father give you this
assignment or did you ask for it?
447
00:35:50,380 --> 00:35:53,478
- I asked for it.
- Truth?
448
00:35:58,693 --> 00:35:59,660
Truth.
449
00:36:01,459 --> 00:36:02,773
You come back hear.
450
00:36:12,185 --> 00:36:15,752
Form platoon, right wheel, forward march.
451
00:37:40,032 --> 00:37:42,314
You're going to kill this whole
outfit with you're force marchs.
452
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,127
You look pretty healthy to me Bates.
453
00:37:44,414 --> 00:37:46,984
As for the other men, a little
hard ride in the sun is good...
454
00:37:47,014 --> 00:37:49,175
for them burn some of
the guard house beef of their bellies.
455
00:37:49,493 --> 00:37:52,122
- Ok, you're the boss.
- That's right, I'm the boss.
456
00:37:53,534 --> 00:38:00,654
♪ The Captain is in a harsh marrying
he feeds us saw and corn and bean... ♪
457
00:38:00,684 --> 00:38:07,809
♪ While he is living beyond his means
the captain lives a harsh marrying. ♪
458
00:38:11,662 --> 00:38:16,211
♪ When the enemy comes of course he run... ♪
459
00:38:16,241 --> 00:38:21,410
♪ He's not go out the cavalry. ♪
460
00:38:24,031 --> 00:38:28,331
♪ The colonel daughter loves him too. ♪
461
00:38:28,361 --> 00:38:34,347
♪ For his a fellow the cavalry. ♪
462
00:38:36,064 --> 00:38:37,197
Bates.
463
00:38:38,648 --> 00:38:42,107
- Yes sir.
- Bring an ax.
464
00:38:42,623 --> 00:38:45,449
I tried to warn these smart
monkeys about the liquor, both of them.
465
00:38:46,265 --> 00:38:48,471
A drunk, what a drunk? That's Rich.
466
00:38:49,016 --> 00:38:50,572
Now, wait a minute.
467
00:38:50,602 --> 00:38:54,774
We need that liquor captain or no captain
to keep the stink of this job out our noses.
468
00:38:54,804 --> 00:38:57,188
Well Bates.
469
00:39:01,083 --> 00:39:02,277
On your feet.
470
00:39:15,486 --> 00:39:17,617
Reveille at 4 A. M.
471
00:39:36,328 --> 00:39:37,175
Indians.
472
00:39:42,645 --> 00:39:44,474
No Bates, I want to take him alive.
473
00:39:44,708 --> 00:39:46,280
Dixon, Vogel, come with me.
474
00:43:38,831 --> 00:43:40,886
Boozer, right to the creek.
475
00:43:49,592 --> 00:43:53,189
You trigger happy fool, I told you I
want to keep him alive for questioning.
476
00:43:53,778 --> 00:43:56,816
I didn't know you wanted to
take him home for a pet captain.
477
00:43:58,402 --> 00:44:00,956
- Bury him.
- Yes sir.
478
00:44:04,962 --> 00:44:10,305
- Take maybe you shot the wrong man Dixon.
- Maybe you got something there.
479
00:44:11,227 --> 00:44:13,313
Well, he said bury him.
480
00:44:18,089 --> 00:44:21,550
You had first gun of yours,
you hadn't killed that lousy Indian...
481
00:44:21,580 --> 00:44:24,044
we wouldn't be step up here like
a sore thumb ahead of the column.
482
00:44:24,588 --> 00:44:27,021
Well, I don't let that
Captain Benson get me kill him...
483
00:44:27,051 --> 00:44:31,268
- not if I get the chance of hitting first.
- Yeah, alright now is his chance.
484
00:44:42,195 --> 00:44:43,604
They left us a warning.
485
00:44:44,105 --> 00:44:46,605
Sitting Bull no want no white
man, in the valley of at Little Big Horn.
486
00:44:46,834 --> 00:44:51,111
I guess you're right Bates, he's made the
battlefield his personal big medicine mount.
487
00:44:51,141 --> 00:44:53,802
And when take out these bodies
will disturb his medicine.
488
00:44:53,954 --> 00:44:57,746
Little Big Horn is now a Sioux holy
place, one of their religious believes.
489
00:44:57,776 --> 00:45:00,753
Us coming in here it's like busting
into a church the Sioux build up.
490
00:45:00,783 --> 00:45:02,687
- That's it.
- Right here is when we turn back.
491
00:45:02,717 --> 00:45:05,317
- I gave no order to go to the rear.
- No, but that did.
492
00:45:05,665 --> 00:45:08,733
Burial unit? We'll be the ones to
be buried if we don't hit that warning.
493
00:45:08,763 --> 00:45:11,847
You want to take orders from Indians,
why don't you ride up and join them.
494
00:45:13,751 --> 00:45:17,152
Forward, go.
495
00:46:11,035 --> 00:46:12,561
What he's trying? Get us all killed?
496
00:46:12,969 --> 00:46:16,249
Nervous Vogel? There's no danger, yet.
497
00:46:17,008 --> 00:46:18,531
That's what the Captain says.
498
00:46:18,561 --> 00:46:20,949
It's crazy, you got eyes, even you
can see the Indians up on them hill.
499
00:46:21,115 --> 00:46:24,304
- Yeah, all can see them.
- Seems he's riding to another ambush.
500
00:46:24,694 --> 00:46:26,583
Those braves are sitting
up there just buying their time...
501
00:46:26,613 --> 00:46:30,142
we walk into a trap we
can get off, they'll butcher us.
502
00:46:31,758 --> 00:46:35,068
Is there anyone else beside
Vogel who can read Indian minds?
503
00:46:37,055 --> 00:46:39,005
Vogel, come with me, we're scouting ahead.
504
00:46:39,730 --> 00:46:42,843
- Ride out there alone?
- Follow me, that's an order.
505
00:46:53,052 --> 00:46:55,605
- Must be a couple of miles out of the camp.
- Dismount, Vogel.
506
00:46:55,635 --> 00:46:58,280
- Eh?
- You heard me, get off that horse.
507
00:47:03,418 --> 00:47:06,320
You've been doing a lot of
talking since we started this march.
508
00:47:06,562 --> 00:47:08,859
In front of my face and behind my back...
509
00:49:40,898 --> 00:49:45,976
I figured from getting now, we'll all
have a chance to get out of here alive.
510
00:49:46,592 --> 00:49:48,935
Bates it turned back, the
men are in their beds and let us.
511
00:49:48,965 --> 00:49:53,173
Sure, as soon his head back to the post,
keep on his way where we can back it.
512
00:49:53,203 --> 00:49:56,499
- It may be too late even now.
- No, no, it's not to late.
513
00:49:56,876 --> 00:50:00,579
Them Indians won't bother us as long
as we don't disturb the medicine ground.
514
00:50:05,052 --> 00:50:08,362
Care with using a gun, a
shot will wake up the whole camp.
515
00:50:10,100 --> 00:50:14,891
I ain't going to use no gun, remember
that Indian I got shot back there.
516
00:50:15,178 --> 00:50:17,611
Took this off as a souvenir.
517
00:50:48,708 --> 00:50:50,959
Vogel, Vogel...
518
00:50:56,219 --> 00:50:58,848
- Ii is your friend.
- No sir, is no friend of mine.
519
00:50:58,878 --> 00:51:00,496
Was a soldier, we're in the same outfit.
520
00:51:00,526 --> 00:51:02,445
- Get a shovel, bury him.
- Yes sir.
521
00:51:02,475 --> 00:51:04,260
Allen, help him.
522
00:51:09,457 --> 00:51:12,540
Well sergeant, I wouldn't
expected this, but I want to thank you.
523
00:51:12,722 --> 00:51:17,633
Oh, is nothing personal in what I did,
I'd do the same thing for any man.
524
00:51:32,294 --> 00:51:35,165
Oh Miss Kellogg, I'm Corporal Morrison ma'am.
525
00:51:35,362 --> 00:51:38,279
I've been off on detach
duty riding through to Fort Supply.
526
00:51:38,612 --> 00:51:39,504
Yes?
527
00:51:39,534 --> 00:51:42,813
I just rode in carrying a message from
Bufford and I heard about Captain Benson.
528
00:51:43,056 --> 00:51:46,335
- About the Court Of Inquiry I mean.
- The inquiry is over corporal.
529
00:51:46,365 --> 00:51:49,479
Yes ma'am, but it is true that Captain
Benson couldn't prove at the inquiry...
530
00:51:49,509 --> 00:51:53,453
that the General did order him back
to Fort Supply to bring back you miss?
531
00:51:53,915 --> 00:51:56,998
- That's right.
- But he can prove it now miss, by me.
532
00:51:58,132 --> 00:51:59,779
- By you?
- Yes ma'am.
533
00:52:00,428 --> 00:52:02,257
I was standing right
besides the General when he...
534
00:52:02,287 --> 00:52:04,585
give Captain Benson
the order to go, he said...
535
00:52:04,615 --> 00:52:06,867
You mean you were actually
there, you heard him give the order?
536
00:52:06,897 --> 00:52:08,483
I did and I swear to it.
537
00:52:09,579 --> 00:52:11,725
But why didn't Tom say this at the inquiry?
538
00:52:12,844 --> 00:52:15,730
I guess you know better
than we do, he's a proud one.
539
00:52:16,593 --> 00:52:18,890
You never know what
wonderful news you brought me.
540
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:20,908
I so like to give him that news but...
541
00:52:21,301 --> 00:52:23,538
my own horse is pretty
used up, so I'd like to take Dandy.
542
00:52:23,568 --> 00:52:26,364
General Custer's second mount,
it's the fastest thing in the post.
543
00:52:26,740 --> 00:52:28,865
Would you get the
Colonel permission for me please?
544
00:52:28,895 --> 00:52:30,452
I will corporal, go on.
545
00:52:30,482 --> 00:52:32,454
With Dandy under me I'll make good time.
546
00:52:32,614 --> 00:52:35,482
Corporal, god bless
you and tell Tom I love him.
547
00:52:35,512 --> 00:52:38,157
- Yes ma'am, I tell him that, good night.
- Good night.
548
00:53:08,204 --> 00:53:12,586
Hey, that horse Morrison
was riding, wasn't it Dandy?
549
00:53:12,616 --> 00:53:15,337
Sure you
know what? It's General Custer's horse.
550
00:55:24,890 --> 00:55:26,817
The valley of the Little Big Horn.
551
00:55:27,074 --> 00:55:30,535
The man we've to bring
home are down there, waiting for us.
552
00:56:16,668 --> 00:56:20,144
To think of the bodies of officers, the
President said, bring them home for bury.
553
00:56:20,416 --> 00:56:22,562
What he didn't said is how you
going to tell which one is the officers?
554
00:56:23,008 --> 00:56:24,474
No marks, no nothing.
555
00:56:25,260 --> 00:56:27,209
We don't even know which grave is Custer's.
556
00:56:27,814 --> 00:56:31,109
Yes we do Bates, I
located the burial this morning myself.
557
00:56:31,498 --> 00:56:34,113
Oh, you got eyes that
see underground, I suppose.
558
00:56:34,143 --> 00:56:36,183
Sitting Bull himself marked for us.
559
00:56:36,833 --> 00:56:37,845
There it is.
560
00:56:48,203 --> 00:56:50,893
Kruger, Vogel, Bird, bring a spade.
561
00:56:51,740 --> 00:56:55,322
Sitting Bull own coup stick to mark
this favorite part from the others.
562
00:56:55,700 --> 00:56:57,484
A tribute of one great leader to another.
563
00:56:57,786 --> 00:57:00,249
- Yes sir?
- Dig here gently.
564
00:57:39,342 --> 00:57:40,596
Captain Benson.
565
00:58:09,001 --> 00:58:12,523
Now they got us right
when they want us, all boxed in.
566
00:58:12,870 --> 00:58:14,125
Keep digging.
567
00:58:18,395 --> 00:58:21,992
You're the man to get us
out of this place, we all follow you.
568
00:58:39,855 --> 00:58:43,437
They come in peace to recover the
bodies of their dead, as we would do.
569
00:58:43,467 --> 00:58:46,430
Their dead belong to us,
the victory belong to us.
570
00:58:48,317 --> 00:58:52,563
- If I can make them go in peace.
- They go and leave, without the Yellow Hair.
571
00:58:59,818 --> 00:59:05,637
If they go in peace and leave big medicine,
till I sleeping, we shall let them leave.
572
00:59:05,841 --> 00:59:08,259
But if they refuse, they shall die.
573
00:59:16,436 --> 00:59:18,083
He's making the sign of peace.
574
00:59:22,118 --> 00:59:24,733
- I come in peace.
- You're welcome in peace.
575
00:59:25,035 --> 00:59:29,282
- I am Young Hawk, seven chief of the Sioux.
- I'm Captain Benson of the 7th Cavalry.
576
00:59:30,748 --> 00:59:33,378
Warriors of the Sioux
and our brothers the Cheyenne had...
577
00:59:33,408 --> 00:59:35,781
painted their faces
and taken up their weapons.
578
00:59:36,628 --> 00:59:38,502
You're defiling sacred ground.
579
00:59:38,532 --> 00:59:41,509
We come to honor our DEA
according to the white man costume.
580
00:59:43,020 --> 00:59:44,893
But it's strange that
a yellow Sioux chief speak...
581
00:59:44,923 --> 00:59:47,109
the language of the white man so well?
582
00:59:47,463 --> 00:59:51,015
From my birth to my 12 year
I was rear by white man.
583
00:59:51,408 --> 00:59:53,584
And taught by white men on an army post.
584
00:59:54,551 --> 00:59:58,767
Therefore, I know what's in the
hearts of your people and mine.
585
00:59:59,110 --> 01:00:01,800
But you must know it,
we mean no harm to your people.
586
01:00:02,313 --> 01:00:08,238
You do not understand,
this, all, is now a part of my people.
587
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:11,260
A part of their lives, a part of their faith.
588
01:00:12,378 --> 01:00:14,721
The spirit of the dead had
been reborn again in the bodies...
589
01:00:14,751 --> 01:00:17,547
and the souls of the
Sioux and Chayanne braves.
590
01:00:18,106 --> 01:00:21,975
Even the spirits of their horses had passed
on into the beings of our own ponies.
591
01:00:22,851 --> 01:00:26,690
And Custer, the great warrior
of the Yellow Hair lives now...
592
01:00:27,052 --> 01:00:29,319
in the hearts and the minds of the Sioux.
593
01:00:29,908 --> 01:00:33,127
He hasn't god our braves with
his own bravery and wisdom.
594
01:00:33,868 --> 01:00:37,253
Transmitted to him through
his birth, which is in our keeping.
595
01:00:37,283 --> 01:00:41,197
But Young Hawk knows that
such a believe is only superstition.
596
01:00:42,527 --> 01:00:45,867
As the white man believe in the
miraculous power of his own saints...
597
01:00:46,350 --> 01:00:50,960
and the truth within the teachings of his
own face, nothing more than superstition?
598
01:00:52,909 --> 01:00:54,451
Is the believe of my people...
599
01:00:55,267 --> 01:00:58,698
that if Yellow Hair body
is removed, his spirit will go with him.
600
01:00:59,650 --> 01:01:01,695
And the fruit of our victory will be lost.
601
01:01:02,179 --> 01:01:05,866
The great chief of my people has
ordered me to bring Yellow Hair home.
602
01:01:06,085 --> 01:01:08,745
To lay among his own kind and let him rest.
603
01:01:14,126 --> 01:01:16,272
My people will never let him go.
604
01:01:26,595 --> 01:01:30,418
That's the end, if this a choice between the
dead and the living, we take the living.
605
01:01:30,721 --> 01:01:32,580
As long as we're alive Captain...
606
01:01:33,048 --> 01:01:36,887
me and the man have decided what I've
known a long time, you're not fit to command.
607
01:01:37,144 --> 01:01:38,292
I'm taking over.
608
01:01:43,083 --> 01:01:45,320
Bates, you and the men
know this mean Court Martial.
609
01:01:45,562 --> 01:01:48,252
We're not going to sit here and
get what Custer got, we're getting out.
610
01:01:49,008 --> 01:01:50,262
I'm with you, sarge.
611
01:01:50,822 --> 01:01:52,998
You going to stay here and carry out orders.
612
01:01:53,028 --> 01:01:56,397
You going to stop
us Captain? All by yourself?
613
01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:00,584
You're the fellow who believe a man
should've a chance for his live, remember?
614
01:02:00,614 --> 01:02:03,622
Not this time, it's you or all of us.
615
01:02:04,136 --> 01:02:06,252
You pull back that
hammer Bates and your dead.
616
01:02:06,282 --> 01:02:09,622
Put out the gun Kruger, this is
between Bates and a superior officer.
617
01:02:10,378 --> 01:02:13,657
Bates told you that the Captain is crazy when
he's already saved two troops of the 7th...
618
01:02:13,687 --> 01:02:16,876
by coming in here with a gang of
scoundrels like us to do men work.
619
01:02:17,118 --> 01:02:19,309
Kruger, it's an order put up your gun.
620
01:02:23,782 --> 01:02:26,926
Well Bates go ahead shoot,
and you're ready been in command.
621
01:02:27,471 --> 01:02:31,295
You won't have to worry about me,
you have nothing to worry about but Indians.
622
01:02:32,141 --> 01:02:36,962
Are you watching them?
Their set base, ready to charge.
623
01:02:37,702 --> 01:02:41,109
You give the orders Sergeant,
tell this men how to save their hair.
624
01:02:42,508 --> 01:02:45,062
Oh, come on Bates,
get it over with, take command.
625
01:02:50,737 --> 01:02:52,505
What's the matter? Haven't you the guts?
626
01:02:54,930 --> 01:02:56,623
I guess I'm the one that's nuts.
627
01:03:01,686 --> 01:03:04,679
This ground is sacred,
it must not be stain by war blood.
628
01:03:04,935 --> 01:03:07,913
You're heart had proven
that is heart of a Sioux brave...
629
01:03:08,321 --> 01:03:11,978
but there are times when he
thinks with the man of a white man.
630
01:03:36,711 --> 01:03:40,610
Get your mounts used
them in wagon for barricade, move.
631
01:03:41,411 --> 01:03:43,028
You two men get moving.
632
01:03:49,172 --> 01:03:51,167
Come on your guard, help go Bricks.
633
01:03:51,197 --> 01:03:54,356
And you can prove them
Indians you're troopers.
634
01:03:54,386 --> 01:03:56,803
You, you heard what the Captain said.
635
01:05:24,462 --> 01:05:28,977
No rifle will be fire against them.
No lance will hurt their hearts.
636
01:05:29,021 --> 01:05:33,998
No arrow will bear into their bodies
and they will die, perhaps more slowly...
637
01:05:34,331 --> 01:05:36,431
but just as sure.
638
01:05:48,271 --> 01:05:53,334
- What are they waiting for? Reinforcements?
- I'll tell you what they're waiting for?
639
01:05:54,075 --> 01:05:58,050
They're waiting for us to die.
Not from bullets, from thirst.
640
01:05:58,860 --> 01:06:01,595
That sun will swell up my
mouths, we're sure it is death.
641
01:06:01,625 --> 01:06:04,090
We're surrounded, cut out
from water and everything else.
642
01:06:50,333 --> 01:06:55,699
Bates, he wanted to be
with Custer. Well, let him, not me.
643
01:06:58,358 --> 01:07:03,693
- Vogel, keep here under cover, you idiot?
- You're the idiots.
644
01:07:03,723 --> 01:07:08,469
Couldn't think how to save you like
rats in trap, not me, I'm getting out.
645
01:08:20,270 --> 01:08:22,416
Is the General's horse Dandy.
646
01:08:42,343 --> 01:08:44,398
They're falling back.
647
01:08:51,290 --> 01:08:54,509
Indians think is spirit of the
General's horse, they think is Vic.
648
01:08:56,776 --> 01:08:58,151
Kruger, sound the charge.
649
01:09:29,183 --> 01:09:32,024
Hey, look at them Indians,
look like their stuck by lightning.
650
01:09:34,851 --> 01:09:37,783
That's the answer, their sure it's Vic,
the horse they buried with the general.
651
01:09:37,813 --> 01:09:40,786
They think it's returned from the grave to
help us and Custer spirit is in the saddle.
652
01:09:40,816 --> 01:09:42,870
Get this wagon moving,
we're going to mount and ride.
653
01:09:42,900 --> 01:09:44,893
You heard the captain, come on and mount now.
654
01:09:56,191 --> 01:09:58,899
I want you ride out of here
as if those Indians weren't there.
655
01:09:59,412 --> 01:10:02,498
Column of twos, forward, ho.
656
01:10:05,090 --> 01:10:08,930
I've had deeps dreams
in my time but they couldn't talk of this.
657
01:10:29,601 --> 01:10:31,526
The spirit of Yellow Hair spoken.
658
01:11:39,176 --> 01:11:41,604
I congratulate you on the
way you conducted your mission.
659
01:11:42,291 --> 01:11:44,341
It'll be reported directly to the President.
660
01:11:51,006 --> 01:11:53,103
Can you forgive a man
who's for once in his life time acted...
661
01:11:53,133 --> 01:11:56,251
more the anxious
father than an officer in the army?
662
01:11:56,281 --> 01:11:59,258
Yes sir, if you would forgive
a man who for once in his life...
663
01:11:59,288 --> 01:12:02,973
acted more as a bride groom than
this troop commander of the 7th Cavalry.
664
01:12:06,300 --> 01:12:09,141
Captain Benson, about face.
60619
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