Gettysburg Page #3

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KILRAIN:

Colonel.

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Colonel, darling. Rise up, me bucko.

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I'm sorry, darling,

but we got a bit of a problem here.

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Would you like to hear about it?

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Would you wake up, sir?

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We got a whole company coming, sir.

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This way. I'll give you time to wake up,

but we've got quite a problem.

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Altogether, 120 men are coming.

We're to be having them as guests.

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What?

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Should be here any minute.

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-Who?

-Mutineers.

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Mutineers, colonel, me lad.

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A hundred and twenty men from the old

Second Maine, which has been disbanded.

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[CLEARS THROAT]

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A hundred and twenty mutineers?

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KILRAIN:

Yes, sir.

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You see, what happened was

the enlistment papers...

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...on the old Second Maine run out.

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They were sent home,

all except these 120 fellows...

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...who foolishly signed three-year papers.

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Three years, that is.

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So these poor fellows

got one more year to serve.

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Only they thought they were signing

to fight only with the Second Maine...

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...and the Second Maine only.

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So they, uh, quit.

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They resigned, you see. 120 men.

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[KILRAIN CHUCKLES]

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-Colonel, are you all right?

-Yeah.

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The point is,

these Maine fellows won't fight no more.

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Nobody can send them home

and nobody knows what to do with them.

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Until they thought of us...

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...being as we are the only other

Maine regiment in the Fifth Corps.

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So they've been assigned to us.

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Yes, sir.

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I have a message here

from the new commanding general.

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George Meade, sir. That's right.

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