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00:02:59Oh, my Lord.

00:03:29It's my prefer, Richard.

00:03:35Our chosen ministers of grace defend us.

00:03:38One year after that massacre, in the spring of 1863, another campaign was waged at Cadam Creek.

00:03:54Alabama, 51st.

00:03:56Which was by far the darkest of the Civil War.

00:04:00No honors were paid to its heroes.

00:04:03No wreaths laid for its dead.

00:04:04And though that was the one time Confederates and Yankees fought on the same side, it is only with the greatest difficulty that I can bear a testament to it.

00:04:14It's not because I've forgotten, but because I remember.

00:04:18War had taught me the world cares little for man.

00:04:24The earth will drink the tears of the dead.

00:04:27The wind will consume the cries of the wounded.

00:04:29And the sun will impassively bear witness to it all.

00:04:33In my youth, I had only desired to be a minister of souls.

00:04:40But my own spirit had since become as the rock of the mountain.

00:04:44And I had long ago stopped my ears to the pleas of men.

00:04:51And thus was I still on that day.

00:04:54When the blood of those crucified soldiers screamed through the Kentucky fields and called to me.

00:04:59Captain Harlan.

00:05:02Captain.

00:05:05General Hallworth said he wanted to see you.

00:05:14I had only one thought on that dry spring morning.

00:05:24My discharge.

00:05:26After two years of fighting, the call of home had become deafening.

00:05:30In the end, however, the cry from Tennessee rang louder.

00:05:35Captain John Harlan reporting his audit, sir.

00:05:37Mm-hmm.

00:05:40Yeah.

00:05:42My apologies, Harlan.

00:05:44I have a very busy schedule, and we must work around the line.

00:05:48Understandable, sir.

00:05:49That is Colonel Thalman over there.

00:05:51You may salute him.

00:05:53He is not in the portrait.

00:05:55Colonel.

00:05:56Please sit down, Captain.

00:05:57Thank you, Lieutenant.

00:06:05A little further back from the general, sir.

00:06:07You're casting shadows.

00:06:14Recovering well, I hope.

00:06:17Yes, sir.

00:06:17Captain had a little mishap on his last reconnaissance.

00:06:20The fact is, we were planning to send him home tomorrow.

00:06:22I've caught him just in time, then.

00:06:25Word has it that you're a tracker, Harlan.

00:06:30Yes, sir.

00:06:30You're very modest, Bjorn.

00:06:32Captain here is one of the finest trackers in the Federal Army.

00:06:36Thank you, sir.

00:06:38I just went through discharge papers.

00:06:40Anxious to get back to your preaching ministry, are you?

00:06:44Yes, sir.

00:06:47Nothing.

00:06:48Yes, thank you.

00:06:50Captain, I understand that you are familiar with the Alabama 51st?

00:06:58Yes, sir.

00:07:00Colonel Amir Strain was their commanding officer.

00:07:04I thought our boys wiped them out six months ago at a place called Cowboys Creek.

00:07:08Strain survived.

00:07:11He's rotting away now in Bowling Green Prison.

00:07:13Excuse me, sir, but I don't see what this has to do with my discharge.

00:07:21Show him those other photographs, George.

00:07:27Not a pretty portrait, Captain.

00:07:30All this occurred in Tennessee just a few days ago, not far from Cowboys Creek.

00:07:35They were all Colonel Thalman's men, every last one of them.

00:07:3831 died.

00:07:4012 mission.

00:07:41But the only thing to Rebsos was a goddamn belt buckle.

00:07:44You don't think the 51st had anything to do with this, sir, do you?

00:07:47A witness to this ungodly massacre has identified that man.

00:07:54His name is Lieutenant Josiah Elkins.

00:07:57He was the 51st second in command.

00:08:00According to our dear Colonel Strain, Elkins died six months ago.

00:08:05During the 51st last stand.

00:08:08However, we now believe that he survived.

00:08:10And has since raised a formidable army of his own.

00:08:13Under what state, sir?

00:08:19In strictest competency, after Captain?

00:08:21Yes, sir.

00:08:22But we do fear that there may be some federal soldiers operating with Mr. Elkins as well.

00:08:28You know, Captain, sometimes in this war, things get very confused.

00:08:34Particularly in our border states of Missouri and Kentucky, where there are so many young men fighting each other from the same extended family.

00:08:41Blue and gray is not always black and white for any of us here in Kentucky.

00:08:48No, sir.

00:08:49So many of our fine young fighting men become very confused between religious morality and practical military necessity.

00:08:58Every man has his breaking point, Captain.

00:09:02Captain, you and I have ours.

00:09:04Whoever did this deed has obviously reached there.

00:09:08Yes, sir.

00:09:10Obviously.

00:09:12I might discharge.

00:09:14I'm terribly sorry, Captain.

00:09:16Your discharge has been rescinded.

00:09:17You will proceed with Colonel Thalman in a small detachment, forthwith the area around Cadams Creek.

00:09:27There you will locate these men, and you will call for reinforcements, and we will have done with this sorry business.

00:09:35As soon as you have completed your mission, you may return home.

00:09:37Again, I'm very sorry, Captain, but sometimes this is how things are done.

00:09:45Yes, sir.

00:09:56Yes, sir.

00:10:01Colonel.

00:10:01Is there something else on your mind, Captain?

00:10:09Sir, with your permission, I'd like to speak with your prisoner, Colonel Neymar Strain.

00:10:13I believe you might be of some assistance.

00:10:15How's that, Captain?

00:10:16Well, in addition to being commander of the 51st, I studied under him before the war.

00:10:22Yeah.

00:10:25Listen to him.

00:10:26He whistles Yankee doodle every time he takes up piss.

00:10:31Hey, Strain, you got a visitor.

00:10:39Hey!

00:10:41I'm having an intensely private moment here, Corporal.

00:10:45Don't miss.

00:10:50It's all right, Corporal.

00:10:51I can handle him from here.

00:10:52Johnny, I thought you'd go back to preaching by now.

00:11:00Union take the edge out of your religion.

00:11:09Are we back on speaking terms?

00:11:11You owe me a favor, Nehemiah.

00:11:15I just come to collect.

00:11:17That's a hell of a time to ask.

00:11:21Come into my classroom.

00:11:27Put your hands on your head.

00:11:29Put your hands on your head!

00:11:30Hey!

00:11:31Hey!

00:11:32Hey!

00:11:33Hey!

00:11:34Hey!

00:11:35Hey!

00:11:36Hey!

00:11:37Hey!

00:11:38Hey!

00:11:39Hey!

00:11:40Hey!

00:11:41Hey!

00:11:42Stay there.

00:11:48John Horling!

00:11:53Nehemiah!

00:11:57Short moment.

00:12:00Get back in here.

00:12:04Move!

00:12:08Oh, come on.

00:12:09Cheer up, Johnny.

00:12:10I make life exciting for ya.

00:12:11I make life exciting for ya.

00:12:12It weren't me.

00:12:13You wouldn't have had any fun at West Point.

00:12:17You had never gotten drunk.

00:12:18You certainly would never had the pleasure of chasing me around this war.

00:12:23I need to talk to you.

00:12:24What you need is a bath.

00:12:25What you need is a bath.

00:12:26It's about your regiment.

00:12:28It's about your regiment.

00:12:29I don't have a regiment, John.

00:12:30I don't have a regiment, John.

00:12:31I don't have a regiment, John.

00:12:35My boys found this two weeks ago.

00:12:36Stuffed in the mouth of a dead Union soldier.

00:12:37I thought you might be interested.

00:12:38You think my boys did this?

00:12:39Go to hell.

00:12:40Go to hell.

00:12:41What the hell do you need is to attack.

00:12:43You think my boys did this?

00:12:44Go to hell.

00:12:45What the hell do you need?

00:12:46What the hell do you need?

00:12:47Our boys found this two weeks ago.

00:12:50Stuffed in the mouth of a dead Union soldier.

00:12:54I thought you might be interested.

00:13:03You think my boys did this?

00:13:07Go to hell.

00:13:10What the hell do you want, John?

00:13:12I want to go home.

00:13:15I need your help.

00:13:17I need your help.

00:13:47I need your help.

00:13:53It's a taste of what you're going to get, Rebel.

00:13:55Now lay down your arms and release that prisoner.

00:13:58Face this.

00:14:00All right.

00:14:02Double up.

00:14:07Where's Murphy?

00:14:08Jump in the wall, Billy.

00:14:10God damn it.

00:14:11Murphy, get your ass down here.

00:14:14I'm sorry for prisoners, sir.

00:14:16Murphy, you're hurting me now.

00:14:21Now don't you try nothing.

00:14:24You end up looking like that.

00:14:26Because I'll be back.

00:14:28Oh, damn it, Murphy.

00:14:30All right, everybody fire.

00:14:35Start with me.

00:14:36They put you, Murphy.

00:14:37They put you, Murphy.

00:14:40They put you, Murphy.

00:14:41Sit there.

00:14:46What the hell?

00:14:49What's that, Billy?

00:14:51You see something out there?

00:14:53The enforcement.

00:14:54We got men coming up the ridge, boys.

00:14:56They're not rosy.

00:14:58Now are they?

00:15:00Turn that cannon around.

00:15:01Boom, boom.

00:15:02Freeze.

00:15:03Quickly, quickly.

00:15:05Hurry up.

00:15:06Okay, boys.

00:15:07First squad.

00:15:13Ready.

00:15:15Ready.

00:15:16Fire.

00:15:18Fire.

00:15:19Fire.

00:15:20Fire.

00:15:21Fire.

00:15:22Fire.

00:15:23Fire.

00:15:24Fire.

00:15:25Fire.

00:15:25They're still coming.

00:15:30Goddamn traitors.

00:15:31Oh, my God, the bullets aren't stopping them.

00:15:33Forward! Forward!

00:15:35Charge!

00:15:36Come on!

00:15:37Come on!

00:15:40Hold your bar.

00:15:55Shut up, Murphy. I'm concentrating.

00:16:14Hey!

00:16:16You boys still alive in there?

00:16:18Who are you?

00:16:20Well, we heard all the fighting, thought it might be some trouble.

00:16:23I wouldn't be staying in there too long.

00:16:25The enemy's coming this way.

00:16:26All right, boys, we're going to move out slow.

00:16:29But keep one round loaded.

00:16:31Murphy, you stay here and cover us.

00:16:34Bennett, if something starts up,

00:16:37I want you to aim for that one in the middle.

00:16:39I got my eye on him.

00:16:40Don't you worry.

00:16:55Well, this is downright inhospitable, if you ask me.

00:17:01That's just too damn bad, eh?

00:17:07Hold your ground.

00:17:09I ain't fooling you.

00:17:10He ain't fooling either.

00:17:11Boys, we're all on the same side now.

00:17:23Sides.

00:17:24I'm the recruiting officer.

00:17:26Mercy!

00:17:29Move!

00:17:34She sees something!

00:17:35God damn it, you want your freedom or not!

00:17:36I...

00:17:37I...

00:17:38Hi.

00:17:53Friend of yours.

00:17:54Come on.

00:17:55How did you know to do that?

00:18:20I heard you're kind of died off.

00:18:22You know, resorting to little tricks like that, it must mean you grow weak.

00:18:31I will consume your bones and scatter the dust to the wind.

00:18:41I can't believe it.

00:18:48I can't believe it.

00:18:50I can't believe it.

00:18:52I can't believe it.

00:19:12I don't know.

00:19:42Murphy, just where in the hell have you been?

00:19:45Boy, that goddamn stuttering in it's going to drive me to my grave.

00:19:49Sorry, sir.

00:19:54Are you hurt, boy?

00:20:00Don't worry, son. Everything's going to be just fine.

00:20:12It's a beautiful sight, ain't it?

00:20:22That's not going to work, son.

00:20:25Captain, it's us to wait on you, boy.

00:20:28Because of your youth.

00:20:30Didn't want nothing to happen to you, son, you know?

00:20:32Well, now we're going to give you a good make.

00:20:49About two days ago, about 26 miles south of the last incident,

00:20:55the boy was confessing.

00:20:59You know, it's not just the old ones are dying anymore, Nehemiah.

00:21:03The young ones now, too.

00:21:06In fact, he looked about just a few years older than your nephew Thomas.

00:21:12Memory serves.

00:21:13What are your terms?

00:21:17All right.

00:21:18You proceed with me into the area, under guard, strictly as an advisor.

00:21:22We flush him out.

00:21:24You get a pardon.

00:21:26If I pledge allegiance to the Union.

00:21:28That's right.

00:21:30Can't do that, son.

00:21:31No pledge, no pardon.

00:21:47Do I get a hot bath?

00:21:58One, one, two, one.

00:22:01One, one, one, three, two, one, one.

00:22:07Your guided left.

00:22:09Mark.

00:22:10Camp foot, straw foot, camp foot.

00:22:12Camp foot, camp foot.

00:22:14Hello.

00:22:15Camp foot, camp foot.

00:22:16Excuse me.

00:22:17Camp foot, camp foot, camp foot.

00:22:18Camp foot, camp foot, camp foot, camp foot.

00:22:21Hello.

00:22:23I say, have you seen Cap...

00:22:25Let me see.

00:22:29Yes.

00:22:29There you are, Captain.

00:22:37I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to photograph the document, our little excursion.

00:22:42It'll be just fine, Mr. Brownlee.

00:22:44Sir, you haven't seen my lens cap, have you?

00:22:47It's come all the way from England, and I really hate to lose it.

00:22:51Captain?

00:22:52Captain?

00:22:52Great service, boys.

00:23:02Just like home.

00:23:04Live visa.

00:23:05Oh, look what we got here, Johnny.

00:23:13I got this when we won Texas in 46.

00:23:18Of course, you're too young to remember that.

00:23:20So we'll take this.

00:23:22You take this home.

00:23:23Take him to missus.

00:23:25And, of course, this.

00:23:29Pretty smart, huh?

00:23:31Granddaddy's watch.

00:23:33He's in the Revolutionary War, you know.

00:23:35Oh, so is mine.

00:23:40You taking pictures on this trip?

00:23:44His brother was killed at Captain's Creek.

00:23:46He's coming along.

00:23:48Arlake!

00:23:49Colonel, sir.

00:23:50What is that red pustule doing here?

00:23:52It's Colonel Nehemiah's strange, sir.

00:23:54I know who he is, Captain.

00:23:56And I do not want him on my expedition.

00:23:58Sir, General Harworth authorized his...

00:24:00I don't give a rat's ass who authorized anything.

00:24:03Colonel.

00:24:04I do believe my good friend John said it was a general that authorized my coming along.

00:24:10Back in the Confederacy, a general usually outranks a colonel.

00:24:14I don't know.

00:24:15Maybe y'all do things differently here in the Union.

00:24:24Things being the way they are, I think temporarily putting aside past differences would be in the best interest of this expedition.

00:24:35I'm leaving orders, Captain.

00:24:37If he gets away, no discharge till you catch him.

00:24:42Yes, sir.

00:24:45Son, you can't let him push you around like that.

00:24:48Come on, move him out.

00:24:54She's gonna be shining on our boots?

00:25:11She's a runaway, sir.

00:25:12Witness on the last incident.

00:25:14She's gonna be coming along.

00:25:15That's so she don't run away again?

00:25:18No, sir.

00:25:19So you don't.

00:25:21John.

00:25:22John, you can't...

00:25:23What?

00:25:23You can't chain me.

00:25:24You gotta move out.

00:25:27Ain't you gonna at least give me...

00:25:31That's a horse.

00:25:32No horse!

00:25:33Can't help you there, Colonel.

00:25:34Sorry about that.

00:25:35God damn it, Harling.

00:25:37If you expect me to walk all the way to Tennessee...

00:25:53God damn it, the better it has.

00:25:56And that's how you can get to Tennessee, if you don't like it.

00:26:07Keep your goddamn hands up.

00:26:09My watch.

00:26:11Move out!

00:26:11I just don't know.

00:26:12I have to say, wolf!

00:26:13I don't know.

00:26:15I don't know.

00:26:16I don't know.

00:26:17He's supposed to sleep.

00:26:18I'm talking too much.

00:26:19I don't know.

00:26:20I should've seen the horse, more.

00:26:21I don't know.

00:26:22I don't know.

00:26:23I don't know.

00:26:24And so we began.

00:26:47I was no stranger to battlefields.

00:26:49I had seen the slaughtered lying upon the meadows of Shiloh.

00:26:52I had walked over corpses strewn in the cornfields of Antietam.

00:26:58But I feared that the battlefield to which we now journeyed was far darker than any I had known.

00:27:04For it seemed as if God had turned his face from these mountains, occluding them in the shadow of his vengeance.

00:27:11And I wondered what kind of enemy walked within those shades.

00:27:16And how were they different from the men I had had to fight for so long.

00:27:19Men like Nehemiah Strain who, not two years ago, I had laughed with and learned from.

00:27:25Oh, hell.

00:27:28Oh, hell.

00:27:29No, no, no, no, no.

00:27:31They say that an enemy is only an injured friend.

00:27:34But when a soldier goes beyond both injury and friendship, what does he become?

00:27:39That is all she wrote.

00:27:42All she wrote.

00:27:44All she wrote.

00:27:47Yeah.

00:27:49You keep going.

00:27:50I'm going to have you a grape before evening's out.

00:27:52All she wrote.

00:27:53All she wrote.

00:27:54All she wrote.

00:27:55Oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:27:56The last one was rather good, wasn't it?

00:27:57Yeah.

00:27:58Well, brought out the missionary zeal in you, Colonel.

00:28:01Damn right.

00:28:02Gospel of the South.

00:28:03God is a southerner, John.

00:28:08Is that right?

00:28:11You think he keeps slaves, too?

00:28:18I see you still got your sense of humor.

00:28:22Tongue still sharp as a saber.

00:28:24In fact, uh, the captain here was one of my sharpest pupils, Mr. Bradley.

00:28:32He was going to go to Yale, become a, uh, uh, doctor of divinity.

00:28:41Start leper colony or something.

00:28:43Lepers.

00:28:44Good for you.

00:28:44No, it was a tragedy, Mr. Bradley.

00:28:46You see, uh, his daddy was a general, a real Missouri fire eater.

00:28:51And he made the poor boy go to West Point where, thank the Lord,

00:28:53he had the good fortune to study with me.

00:28:59We got real close, didn't we, John?

00:29:03That is, until we tried to kill each other.

00:29:06Pardon?

00:29:08We fought a duel, Mr. Bradley.

00:29:11It was over a girl, wasn't it, John?

00:29:14You see, uh, the captain had me cornered.

00:29:18But he's too much of a gentleman to kill me, so he just said,

00:29:21you owe me.

00:29:22You can sort of say that's why I'm here now.

00:29:25What was the name of that girl, John?

00:29:27I don't like her, sir.

00:29:31Don't get all heated up, John, with all this war going on.

00:29:36Ultimately, that's what divided us.

00:29:41What was the girl whose name neither of us remember?

00:29:44You keep working on that, Mr. Bradley.

00:29:57But he forced you to go to the South and you might.

00:29:59Johnny, since when has this war been about slavery?

00:30:03I don't have a slave.

00:30:04Most of my army don't.

00:30:06That's how the South works.

00:30:07Until we come up with something better on our own terms.

00:30:11Let's wait till stay.

00:30:12I don't think that's a popular opinion, Colonel.

00:30:17Democracy, huh?

00:30:19I think you forgot someone.

00:30:20I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:21I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:22I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:23I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:24I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:25I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:26I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:27I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:28I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:29I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:30I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:31I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:32I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:33I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:34I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:35I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:36I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:37I don't think that's a popular opinion.

00:30:38Sure as hell never want to see this place again.

00:30:59Feel proud of your regiment strain?

00:31:04Thalman?

00:31:06I lost 200 men here.

00:31:08Down by the Crick.

00:31:11They weren't laid out nearly as pretty when our fighting was done.

00:31:38Colonel, with your permission, before we find out what happened to your man, we ought to determine what happened to his.

00:31:53You ever hear of a killing box, Colonel?

00:32:08I am familiar with the term.

00:32:11That's what happened here.

00:32:15I am familiar with the term?

00:32:18That's what happened here.

00:32:19General Bragg had run most of his men south to Murfreesboro to find another Union army.

00:32:34You ordered my men behind enemy lines to see if we could divert any reinforcements coming that way.

00:32:49We got more than we bargained for.

00:32:51Half my regiment got pinned down on the southern bank of the Crick by a Union battery.

00:33:04I desperately tried to rejoin them, but the barrage was unrelenting.

00:33:11When I, my second in command, Josiah Elkins got to them at the southern bank, they were in full retreat.

00:33:26The Union regiment began to advance.

00:33:45Pull back!

00:33:49I tried to pull back.

00:33:58Before I knew it, we were surrounded.

00:34:19I gave the order to surrender.

00:34:26Elkins and the others followed suit.

00:34:31But the Union commander didn't accept.

00:34:34I was hit in the shoulder.

00:34:48The men took me for dead.

00:34:51Lieutenant Elkins did the only thing he could.

00:34:53Charged.

00:34:54He could have gotten past the clearing.

00:35:04Maybe he led some of the boys to safety.

00:35:12For the lion help.

00:35:14The nephew, Thomas, they just blew his old stomach away.

00:35:30He was twelve.

00:35:31Those Union soldiers spared my life.

00:35:51A week later, I woke up in the hospital.

00:35:57My heart bleeds.

00:35:58It's getting dark.

00:36:01First, Sergeant.

00:36:02Yes, sir.

00:36:03Find some dry wood for some fires.

00:36:05Yes, sir.

00:36:06Sergeant Hammond, detail some men for water.

00:36:10Corporal Burke, have some men round up some water.

00:36:13Yes, sir.

00:36:17It ain't gonna burn.

00:36:19It's too wet.

00:36:28You and...

00:36:39Baby.

00:36:54I don't know.

00:43:07Thanks.

00:43:33you. Thomas. Go, sir. Come with me. I can't. It is an order. Sir, you all right? There's

00:44:01a cave. I saw Thomas. Have a nice swim. We just got word, Harling. There was another incident

00:44:09last night. Where? At the front of our lines. Strain. Looks like your boy has just busted

00:44:16back into the Confederacy. No, no, Colonel. Johnny?

00:44:31Look, right here. Did you find it? Yeah, we found it. Did you do what I thought I told you

00:44:50to do? Yeah. Back to the rock and fill the hole with dirt.

00:45:01Do you think I'm crazy? You're delirious, Nehemiah. It's a snake bite. It's a snake

00:45:20snake bite. The same thing that happened to my men is happening to me. They're out there,

00:45:35John. They're racing an army.

00:45:38sir. 51st's a god-awful regiment. And you're asking me to track them on the wrong route. I'm not asking you

00:46:02anything, Captain. Sir, I've got ten men. If I had strain, maybe. But if he dies...

00:46:14if he dies or lives, it has nothing to do with it.

00:46:21...

00:46:24...

00:46:26...

00:46:31...

00:47:07He's got a knife. Use it. Please.

00:47:37We move out. Now.

00:47:53You all right?

00:47:56Never better.

00:47:56You can, uh, ride with me if you like.

00:48:04Never better.

00:48:08Never better.

00:48:09We proceeded south, and with the help of Colonel Strain, pierced the borders of the Confederacy

00:48:32in pursuit of an enemy still unseen. Strain's recovery was nothing short of a resurrection,

00:48:39a miracle brought on, I suspect, by the machinations of the mute Negress.

00:48:44Nehemiah now clung to her, not as a man to a woman, but rather as a child to its mother,

00:48:52as if her body carried an antidote to the poison which had infected him.

00:48:56She began to heal him, protect him, and understand him.

00:49:02This I watched with growing unease and, dare I say, jealousy.

00:49:08For in the passing of a few days, it seemed that she came to know him better than I, who

00:49:13was once his fastest friend.

00:49:14As for Thalman and his men, whose disposition toward the Negroes is not much better than

00:49:20their brethren to the south, their bewilderment at Strain's actions quickly turned to hostility

00:49:25as his behavior became more erratic.

00:49:29Halt!

00:49:33Halt!

00:49:33What's that, what are you talking about?

00:49:46Just having a friendly conversation.

00:49:47She's a mute!

00:49:50I'm tired of having to explain to the Colonel why you're acting so goddamn strange.

00:49:55It's a strange world, John.

00:49:58A stranger than you think.

00:50:01You're behind enemy lines, Colonel.

00:50:03Do not make the situation any more dangerous than it is.

00:50:12I'm gonna unshackle you.

00:50:14Maybe you'll start to act like a decent soldier.

00:50:16It's on your head, Captain.

00:50:18On your head.

00:50:21We got him.

00:50:33Assemble your men for skirmishers.

00:50:38Assemble your men for skirmishers.

00:50:41Hey.

00:50:41We got him.

00:50:42We got him.

00:50:42Start się.

00:50:43Hey.

00:50:44Get out! Get out of them!

00:50:48Stop them, damn it!

00:50:54Ready!

00:51:01Hold your fire, man! Hold your fire!

00:51:04You missed! Throw down your arms!

00:51:07You boys, Jenkins!

00:51:08Yeah? Thank God!

00:51:11James Dawson, 31st, Tennessee!

00:51:15Oh, sweet Jesus, did we surrender!

00:51:20We heard, uh, screaming, screaming.

00:51:24They dragged a whole family out of that house yonder.

00:51:28I never heard screaming like that before.

00:51:31We fell back to our wagons and just started firing everything we had,

00:51:36but they just kept on coming.

00:51:38And then they just plucked our men out and just dragged them off.

00:51:43Why did they not come after you?

00:51:45I don't know. I don't know.

00:51:47They wouldn't come near our wagon,

00:51:49and then come morning,

00:51:51they just left.

00:51:54Well, we couldn't.

00:51:56We was all too scared to move.

00:51:59Sir,

00:52:02it was our men who'd done this.

00:52:06They're not our men, corporal.

00:52:09There are two regiments of infantry waiting across the Kentucky border.

00:52:12If I can break through,

00:52:13I will force march them here in 24 hours.

00:52:15Colonel, you heard what the man just said.

00:52:17I know, Captain.

00:52:18I know.

00:52:20But under the circumstances,

00:52:21I can see no alternative.

00:52:24Yes, sir.

00:52:24Do not lose your men, Harling.

00:52:27If they engage you, fall back.

00:52:29If I'm not back in 24 hours,

00:52:31you send another man.

00:52:32Keep your head, Captain.

00:52:34I can use you at Vicksburg.

00:52:36I can help you get through this, John.

00:52:52But you have to trust me.

00:53:06Would you just hear me out, John?

00:53:08You want me to believe that Rebecca is a clairvoyant,

00:53:10is that right?

00:53:10Yeah.

00:53:13First, it's your cave,

00:53:14and then this drummer boy.

00:53:16Now these Quakers,

00:53:18makers, makers, John,

00:53:19Quakers don't run around

00:53:19and conduct the crucifixions as rule.

00:53:22Let me ask you one thing.

00:53:25How did you know her name was Rebecca?

00:53:28She can't write, she can't talk,

00:53:30but you knew her name was Rebecca.

00:53:32She put it in your head, didn't she?

00:53:38That's one of the things she does.

00:53:45Rebecca is a slave girl, Nehemiah.

00:53:50Just because she ran off a plantation into your arms...

00:53:53Rebecca has lived the whole story, John.

00:53:57She talks to me.

00:53:59No words come out of her mouth.

00:54:02But I can hear...

00:54:06Oh, yeah?

00:54:12A long while ago,

00:54:13in Africa, there was a village.

00:54:16In it, there lived a very powerful tribe.

00:54:20No other tribe ever dared tangle with them

00:54:22because everyone knew

00:54:23what they were guarding.

00:54:25There was a hole in the earth,

00:54:27like the cave I found back at Ketum's Creek.

00:54:29Inside it, there lived things that were

00:54:31out of a nightmare.

00:54:33Years ago, the tribe had bottled those beans

00:54:35in that hole

00:54:36and set their village around it.

00:54:38They didn't want none of what was down there

00:54:40getting out,

00:54:41spreading their poison,

00:54:42consuming mankind.

00:54:44Two hundred years ago,

00:54:46white slave traders came.

00:54:48They attacked the village,

00:54:49killed the men,

00:54:50and took most of the women.

00:54:51One of the slavers had the bright idea

00:54:54of going down in that hole.

00:54:57He found something all right.

00:55:00But it weren't slaves.

00:55:03When he came out,

00:55:06he weren't just a slave trader.

00:55:07That man brought a plague here, John.

00:55:14And a whole lot of people were, uh,

00:55:17changed, like my men.

00:55:21Rebecca's ancestors,

00:55:23now they were the ones who hunted him down

00:55:24and bottled him up in that cave that I found.

00:55:30John,

00:55:31Rebecca's the only one left

00:55:34who knows how to end this.

00:55:35but she needs our help.

00:55:45Yeah, my head.

00:55:47That story don't beat all.

00:55:51Jump.

00:55:55I'd like to stay and play,

00:55:56but I gotta play on our defense.

00:55:59Listen to Rebecca.

00:56:00She has something to say.

00:56:04Sure.

00:56:05I tried.

00:56:23I want you to have this.

00:56:24I thought he'd kill me

00:56:29if he knew I'd given his watch to a new.

00:56:34A nice girl like you.

00:56:42I mean to ask you something.

00:56:43How come you picked me

00:56:52to show all this to?

00:56:58Because I'm the last of my tribe.

00:57:05Hardly the last, Colonel.

00:57:06You boys have been raising a whole lot of hell.

00:57:15The country's already gone to hell, Nehemiah.

00:57:18We're just starting an army to set things right.

00:57:21May I have the honor of presenting your new regiment, sir?

00:57:25Of course, sir.

00:57:26Welcome back.

00:57:26I'm a little confused.

00:57:33Besides, you boys plan on fighting for it.

00:57:38Besides, Colonel, are what killed the country.

00:57:42We want to resurrect it.

00:57:45I see, huh?

00:57:47We're doing a whole lot of crucifying

00:57:49just to bring it back to life.

00:57:50Yeah, but for those that deserve it,

00:57:53it's a glorious life.

00:57:59Sword's just a stick, Nehemiah.

00:58:03Gunshot, just a meaningless piece of metal.

00:58:06When you felt death breathe on your face

00:58:08and you breathe right back.

00:58:11That's the sweetest victory of all.

00:58:17Hurrah for the Union!

00:58:19Glory to Earth!

00:58:20Fuzz!

00:58:26Your commands are like the wind, Colonel.

00:58:30This war?

00:58:32This war is just the cry of desperation.

00:58:35We're not afraid.

00:58:38War never promises resurrection, Nehemiah.

00:58:41But I do.

00:58:45To you.

00:58:46You're a damn coward, Nehemiah.

00:58:57You're a damn coward, Nehemiah.

00:58:57Who goes there?

00:59:07Who goes there?

00:59:13Josh!

00:59:15All that goddammit!

00:59:20Goddammit.

00:59:20You gotta listen to me, John.

00:59:22I saw Elkins.

00:59:23I saw Elkins.

00:59:27What the hell is going on here?

00:59:32I saw Elkins.

00:59:33I saw Elkins.

00:59:33I saw my regiment.

00:59:34We gotta fall back to a river, running water.

00:59:36They can't cross it.

00:59:37What the hell are you talking about?

00:59:38It's nothing that Thomas told me.

00:59:39The pump.

00:59:40We'll dig a trench.

00:59:46The wagon.

00:59:46To the wagon.

00:59:47It's like the captain's head.

00:59:48Rebecca!

00:59:50It's them, John.

00:59:52Goddammit.

00:59:53Surrender your arms!

00:59:55Surrender your arms!

00:59:56Running water, John!

00:59:59Identify yourself!

01:00:04Goddammit!

01:00:07Do you not know it is against military code to fire upon a superior officer?

01:00:16Colonel Thalman?

01:00:17Very nearly.

01:00:18You're late, Colonel.

01:00:20Captain Harling.

01:00:23You boys, all right?

01:00:30Yes, sir.

01:00:32The ramps.

01:00:35They're near.

01:00:36Very near.

01:00:38Did you encounter them, sir?

01:00:40A goddamn rebel picket shot my beautiful horse right out from under me.

01:00:47I caught a ball in the lake.

01:00:51Ah!

01:00:53I need a tourniquet.

01:00:55I need a tourniquet.

01:00:57I need a tourniquet.

01:00:59Goddammit.

01:01:01Wait.

01:01:02John, it's been out there.

01:01:10John!

01:01:11Go!

01:01:11Colonel!

01:01:19Colonel!

01:01:21They only want you, Strington.

01:01:24The others can go free.

01:01:26Let him go.

01:01:28Come to me!

01:01:29Come to me!

01:01:30Come to me!

01:01:31Strington!

01:01:47No!

01:01:48Perlema!

01:01:49Beans!

01:01:51Beans!

01:01:52Guard him!

01:02:22Do you hear it?

01:02:24What, sir?

01:02:25The blue chain.

01:02:27The morn is near.

01:02:32I will die soon.

01:02:37And when I'm gone, you must raise my body into the air,

01:02:42so that I may not suck the life back from the earth.

01:02:48It must be done that way, Kent.

01:02:50Yes, sir.

01:02:52We were wrong about the crucifixions.

01:02:56They were not trying to frighten us.

01:02:58They were trying to keep the weak ones rising up.

01:03:02The weak ones, sir.

01:03:04Colonel Strait,

01:03:07do not blame young men for their actions,

01:03:12but neither be merciful toward them,

01:03:15but they will surely fall on you tomorrow's nightfall.

01:03:21Get them.

01:03:25Yes, sir.

01:03:27Will you do me a service of remaining by my side till dawn?

01:03:35I have been a soldier all my days.

01:03:38And I would like to live the rest of my moments

01:03:48in the company of my fellows.

01:03:50Heheheheh.

01:04:02Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

01:04:04The well over there's almost dry.

01:04:28That's not good enough.

01:04:30Maybe we'd make a stand at the Holston River, Captain.

01:04:32No, we'd never make it by dock.

01:04:34Dawson!

01:04:36Sir, you said those things never came near your wagon.

01:04:39What are you carrying in there?

01:04:40Oh, all sorts of stuff.

01:04:41We were evacuating Shosville up north,

01:04:44so we had clothing and ammo.

01:04:48Bullion.

01:04:51Bullion?

01:04:51Yeah, from the bank up there.

01:04:53What kind of bullion?

01:04:54Well, silver, mostly.

01:04:57Maybe there's some silverware, too.

01:05:00Yeah, some trays and some candlesticks and some dinner sets.

01:05:04Is that some e-boys cleaned up?

01:05:07Silver.

01:05:08Just on the watch, John.

01:05:10That's what Rebecca was trying to tell me.

01:05:12What do you mean?

01:05:13I'm scared the hell out of Elkins.

01:05:16Well, I don't know.

01:05:18Think what a silver bayonet could do.

01:05:19Colonel Thalman had told us to expect an attack at nightfall,

01:05:30but Nehemiah, always the master of tactical improvisation,

01:05:34had already planned the defense.

01:05:36Stolen silver that had once adorned a family's dining table

01:05:40now became ammunition for our rifles

01:05:42and a poison sheen for our bayonets.

01:05:46A simple trough of water was transformed from a tool of irrigation

01:05:50into an invincible line in the earth.

01:05:53A stock of coin was turned from currency into an impervious wall.

01:06:00I could not fathom how any of these could fend off such a ruthless enemy,

01:06:05but military logic had begun to fade with the waning daylight,

01:06:09making less clear the lines between blue and gray,

01:06:13black and white, sanity and insanity.

01:06:16I could only now pray that the winds of fate would be merciful to us all

01:06:23and carry us to a place where lies undivided ground.

01:06:28And Strain himself had elected to become human bait,

01:06:33a lure for his once-beloved regiment

01:06:35into what would be the most bizarre killing box in military history.

01:06:42Things for sure.

01:06:44This could be the most expensive battle of the war.

01:06:46Yeah.

01:06:48It's been nice and I'd have to shoot at you this time.

01:06:52Likewise.

01:06:55All right, men.

01:06:57On your positions.

01:06:59Load all weapons.

01:07:16Going out, John.

01:07:39Nehemiah.

01:07:43Don't you run away on me.

01:07:45Come on.

01:08:07Come on.

01:09:41Evening, boys.

01:09:55Nice night for a walk.

01:09:58War's over, Nehemiah.

01:10:00Oh, it's over.

01:10:02Come on home.

01:10:03You take a good look in your heart and tell me what you see.

01:10:21Colonel, you don't need no hole in the earth.

01:10:50No caves, no makers, no slave traders.

01:10:57To find an excuse for evil.

01:10:59Fire!

01:11:17We're brothers, Nehemiah!

01:11:27We're brothers, Nehemiah!

01:11:31We're your own men!

01:11:35We're brothers!

01:11:37Pull it out!

01:11:39North to the right!

01:11:45North to the right!

01:11:47Dawson!

01:11:53Dawson!

01:11:55Let's teach these boys to rub the air!

01:12:01I'm finished, for God's sake!

01:12:09No catch!

01:12:21Come on, Nehemiah!

01:12:23Silver?

01:12:24Run of water?

01:12:27Are we so simply the devil?

01:12:39I'll bleed!

01:12:45So am I still the devil!

01:12:47So am I still the devil!

01:12:53Ah!

01:12:55Ah!

01:12:57Ah!

01:12:59Ah!

01:13:01Ah!

01:13:03Ah!

01:13:05Ah!

01:13:07Ah!

01:13:10Ah!

01:13:13Ah!

01:13:21Ah!

01:13:23That gun!

01:13:26Ah!

01:13:32Ahh!

01:13:34Ah!

01:13:36I'm out of her.

01:13:45Rebecca...

01:14:06She was brave, sir.

01:14:11Braver than you know.

01:14:13On that day, I, John Lawrence Harling,

01:14:16released my former mentor from captivity

01:14:18and thus forfeited my discharge.

01:14:21As a result, I was forced to remain on active duty,

01:14:25serving with General Ulysses S. Grant till the end of the war.

01:14:29Nehemiah Pearson Strain rejoined the Confederate Army

01:14:32and was to serve valiantly at the battles of Gettysburg,

01:14:35Chickamauga, and Cold Harbor.

01:14:38Though still an ardent believer in the Southern cause,

01:14:41he made many enemies there due to his outspoken stance against slavery.

01:14:46After the war, it is rumored he returned to the cave at Gadams Creek

01:14:51to rescue his nephew, the last remaining member of his regiment.

01:14:56Since then, to my knowledge, he has not been heard of.

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