Rocky Mountain Page #3

when they're peaceable, huh?

They wouldn't be a-stomping and

a- yelling if they aimed to fool with us.

They'd be a-crawling up this rock.

They ought to be long gone by morning.

Guess this will keep Cole Smith

scared away till daylight.

If it is Cole Smith out there.

If it ain't, our time's awful short.

Them Yanks will come looking

for their woman and we'll be up a stump.

I'm sorry to be such bad luck to you.

But I'm awfully glad

I'm not down there tonight.

Explain why your parents didn't have

the sense to keep you home...

...fianc or no fianc.

We've been separated for two years.

And I didn't want to wait another two.

What's the matter?

I was just thinking how pleasant it was

to hear a woman's voice again.

Even a Yankee voice, Captain Barstow?

- We're not fighting the women.

- Do you really believe that?

Do you think you can keep them out of it

just by words?

I understand how you feel.

With your fianc in the Army.

I had a brother in it too.

He was killed at the Antietam.

I was there.

We call that the Battle of Sharpsburg.

You were at the Sunken Road?

We called it the Bloody Lane.

It could've been you who killed him.

It could have.

Was that only three years ago?

Seems a lot longer.

Not to me.

Of course not. I'm very sorry, ma'am.

Captain, I didn't mean that.

Please stay a moment.

It just seems so...

So incredible that we can be here...

...2000 miles from the war...

...and I find that you and my brother...

There were a lot

of other brothers there too.

Husbands. And sons.

You sound as if you hate the war

as much as I do.

You don't have to like a war

to fight in it.

You just have to believe

in what you're fighting for, or against.

Do you really believe in it that much?

Back home, I had a plantation.

From the second floor, you could see...

You could see the river.

White cotton fields

going right down to the bank.

It was beautiful.

I didn't think there was anything on Earth

could ever make me leave that.

Here I am.

Here we both are.

That's one of the few compensations,

ma'am.

- Good night, ma'am.

- Good night.

One more washing

and I can use this shirt for a handkerchief.

You better get some sleep.

You relieve the lookout at midnight.

Plank, horses all watered?

How's the head, Jim?

It's all right, sir.

I've been trying to teach Spotty

how to sit up.

You've been trying that every night

for three months.

He does seem a little slow to catch on.

Just where do you think

you're gonna mail that?

This isn't a letter, it's a diary.

For my son to read.

I didn't know you had one.

I haven't.

But someday after the war

and I'm back in Virginia...

...I'll get married and have a son.

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