01x30 - The Major Adams Story (1)

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This next

is the very same ground red.

There's there's a lot

we don't know which w*r

you can't hang a man for a dream, can you?

You can't hang a man from waking up.

Can you?

Can you get some?

Maybe you ought to know some.

Maybe you've done forgot.

The w*r's over. Carefully done.

Surrendered. Place called Appomattox.

That was near five years ago.

Remember, Captain, The w*r's over.

These are rendered.

I didn't

hang them.

Down for you.

Now, Major Adams.

Oh, Major Adams.

How did.

Come on, girl. What's the matter?

Come on, get up. Get.

Come on.

You can't break down

the long way off now.

Come on.

She hit me loose.

She hit me just fine, but she won't mind.

It's no use, Miss Julia.

She's done in. She's not going anyplace.

She's gone to Frisco. The rest of

us may be not here.

She hasn't a. Strength. In us, Julie.

She wasn't bred for this kind of life
in my.

You've got no load to pull.

Think not

hard, boys.

If this man had, you know,
fetch me a fresh horse, William.

Hitch him up in place of this man.

You say so, Major.

Just give me a fresh horse, Bill.

You're very kind, Major.

But we can't accept we're Christians
and we don't take charity.

Especially not from Yankees.

Well, it's not a charity.

It's not even a favor.

I've got 100 wagons here, miss.

One wagon stops. They all stop.

She's all right.

She just had too much sun at the.

You don't understand.

Above malice.

She's a full blooded walking horse.

She's mine.

I was there the night she was foaled.

And when the Yankees came, we put
in the spring house cheer to make a stand.

She can do anything she wants to.

Anything.

So she wouldn't understand
about our kind of horses.

Well, I know a little about horses.

Enough
to know when a horse is going to die,

when it's been worked to death.

All right, get on with it, Bill.

Come on.

Get up there,

John.

Get here.

You can't miss Julia Child.

We barely got enough to

get to San Francisco.

All right, folks,
go on back to your wagons.

We'll be around in a few minutes.

Major,

how much?

How much?

Just forget about it, Miss.

You Yankees will never make baggage
of Mamie Price.

I've got two bags,
so you might as well make a profit.

And that's that Yankee profit.

How much you want for that man?

You serious?

I'm serious.

I don't know.

Time was.

And she was worth a lot of money.

$50. Be too much.

$2. Just fine.

How much is yours worth? $50.

That makes us even.

Yankee outrage every time.

I suppose I should say thank you.

Then.

It's part of your job, isn't it, Major?

That's right, Miss

Major.

You made a bad bargain
this time. That old marrying. Girl.

You talk too much. Well, I would.

Yeah, I guess I do.

Major Adams?

Yes, ma'am.

Will you please forgive my niece?

She had manners once before

we had so many things.

All of us before.

I understand, ma'am.

It's much harder for the young.

Oh, is it?

We have memories. You see.

Sometimes I wonder if I'll

live long enough to recollect
each one of those wonderful days.

But the young.

Nothing but regrets might have been.

We are grateful, Major.

Believe me, both of us.

Don't you worry about it.

It's just part of my job,

Ma'am.

Next.

What a nice man.

Music Yankee.

Oh, nice Yankees. You know,

I remember one that came

in Andrew Jackson's time.

Think again. I think it was.

He was at Harvard University, man.

Same as my brother.
Then there was the other one.

He was a high type.

He was interested in paintings
and furniture.

Interested enough
to cut him out of the frames

of the bayonet
so it wouldn't burn with the rest of them.

Oh, child, you can't carry Roman Hill
all the way to San Francisco with you.

Can I?

Major Adams?

Yeah, that's me.

Oh. Oh, my name's Evans.

That's cavalry boy Boyle.

Oh, really? Janet?

Anything in particular I can do for you?

We're hunting some Confederate raiders

going in the last reports
or somewhere around here.

Confederate.

And a lot of.

Native might think so.

Some horses and all of a piece.

Some don't find them all over the west.

Got in remnants of a lost cause
I didn't quite see fit to surrender.

Name? Murray.

You mean anything to you, Ari?

O Murray's Marauders.

It seems.

Oh, I'm sorry, Lieutenant.

We can't help you very much.

Been pretty quiet last week or so.

Haven't seen a thing
moving ships and lizards.

Well, maybe you can help us.

Maybe we can help each other.

Oh, how's. That?

Marriage man ought to be pretty hard up.

I know.

Wagon train
like yours can be pretty tempting.

Yeah, maybe so.

It wouldn't be too easy.

To pass burdens on how desperate he is.

How clever.

Hmm. You figured.

Excuse us for a decoy, huh?

Well, complete with military escort.

Yeah, I guess that makes sense, Bennett.

All right.

Tell your boys here to make themselves
at home.

Sergeant.

All right,

steady above our showcase.

And I hope your people don't mind

some unexpected guests.

Yes, I said the wrong thing.

Oh, no, said Lieutenant. w*r

and uniform.

That's the wrong. Color for her.

Oh, no.

That kind of puts me in mind at home.

Did you have enough chow fun?

But I.

Where are you from, Lieutenant?

I didn't say.

But it's Kentucky.

Like Lincoln.

A house divided against itself.

The dark and bloody land.

The town.

Yeah.

What happens
when you catch up with this morrow, fella?

I mean, if we catch, he

brings up an interesting point, Mr.

McCullough. Now,

see this?

Some say that he's an outlaw
that's hanging,

and there's others say he's a traitor.

That sh**ting.

Maybe they'll just let him take his pick.

Maybe already has.

Could be

what I'm about to see.

About setting up the picket lines.

And. I don't know.

I just don't. Know.

He seems all right.

Yeah, but did you notice that uniform

you issued

to take a look at those old boots?

You know, the Army Major Supply
gets all fouled up on the frontier.

You know,

and I just can't seem to forget
that quartermaster train.

I'll just say.

You hear about
it happened right after Fredericksburg.

What?

Krebs captured the whole company
without firing a single shot.

Neat trick.

Yeah.

Young Reb.

Lieutenant got his hands on
some of or department orders

and commanded the whole outfit and
took them right through the front lines.

He was after g*ns and ammunition.

All he got for his trouble was a wagon
load of blue issue blues.

Lieutenants named Murray.

That's right.

Charles Eliot Murray.

How'd you get.

Instinct, Major?

Pure instinct.

What is your instinct tell you now?

I'm thinking the same thing.

You are.

How much longer are we going to be
captain now?

Maybe two.

I ought to be asleep by then.

Sleep on our dead. What's the difference?

Why wait all night?

Let's take what we want and get.

That's what I say. I say we wait

for my reasons.

Be all nice and remember.

Hamlet to Ophelia.

Glad you say that.

I don't know.

It seemed appropriate.

Did it?

You heard it before?

Yes. A man.

A boy.

You loved him.

We would have been married.

And you.

Loved him.

He's dead, isn't he?

Did the w*r.

The w*r. Sir.

Why should you be?

You didn't know

anyway. Does it matter?

Didn't even put you.

And that's what you wanted, wasn't it?

I should've known.

I should have looked at
you and know it. Is it?

You hate Yankees are just.

Hate, despise.

And despise them.

Why should it matter to you?

You don't even know my name.

I'm just another babe, a stranger.

You have no reason to condemn me
for being a man or being a woman.

Why not?

My father was a man.

He went to w*r and never came back.

My mother was a woman.

She waited at room and hill.

The Yankees. They were men.

They dragged her out
because she didn't matter

what's left,
the Roman Hill is still in ashes

and the woman is still there
waiting for the man.

Yankee Yaqui Yankee.

They can't be wrong.

Many of them may even find the painting,

but the younger officers
they like simply play.

I know.

Do you mean some men?

All kinds.

All hoped

some of those Yankee girls.

I wrote a letter.

The boy who is to marry.

I told him I didn't love him.

And I never

actually volunteered.

He volunteered to marry my writing.

They sent me the medal,

pinned the letter.

Till they bought.

I hope they never say no.

You know that.

I hope they never find me.

Get married to marry

a man.

Some of the men got caught, Ludie.

They know who we are.

Get the horses. Get back to camp.

Yes, sir.

Best I feel I No matter

how long.

Well.

I'm sorry, Major, but they got away
and we just sort of

swallowed them up and become their bread
with a little light.

We might pick up a trail.

I forget. It hadn't been for your instant.

We might have lost
a lot more than just a couple of horses.

All right, folks, excitement's all over.

And better grab some sleep while you can

get burn.

Get Murray,

get Murray,

Murray,

get Murray,

get Murray.

And you be here.

I've got to get a horse.

Who? You heard?

You heard bad.

I can't get you one now.

It isn't safe. See?

No place safe anymore.

First you.

Lose them.

You soon

you've got to help me.

He'll help me.

I'll help. You know what you're doing.

I know what I'm doing.

For the first time since moment here.

I know exactly what I'm doing. Oh.

It's out of the question, child.

We can't take a man in our wagon.

What people see.

It's none of their concern,
and I plan to keep it that way.

It isn't as if he were some sort of kin.

He's a total stranger. Is he?

We don't know anything about him.

Not anything at all. I know he's hurt.

His name is Mallory.

Captain Charles.

Mallory.

The water's not boiling,
but it's surely hot.

I don't have to do this.

See that boy of yours?

I'm sorry.

No. Oh,

no, no.

Captain Murray,

we reached Port Boil
the day after tomorrow.

I assume you've made your plans for now.

Shall we say your departure.

Is a remarkable assumption, ma'am.

It's logical.

Well, it.

And my niece.

Because she figure in those plans.

She might.

It's her intention to accompany you.

You know that? Of course.

I'm aware of.

Captain Lowry.

But do you love her?

Of course you do.

It was inevitable

if you do love her.

And love her very much, you'll go tonight.

You'll go quickly and you'll go alone.

Will I?

Julia had seen a great deal of sorrow,
a great deal of heartbreak.

How she's managed to survive.

I don't know.

Perhaps only the young know
the secret of survival.

I doubt if she could stand disillusion.

And again.

Perhaps you underestimate her.

Oh, are you?

You're not the first, you know that. Yes.

This was the prince in the fairy story.

Then the night on the white charge.

And then the. w*r.

The cause, the Confederacy.

And now me, you.

Oh, the indecision of you.

Of course.

Reporting from the lake.

But I

mean,

he's gone.

You did it.

You sent him away.

Supposing he doesn't want you, he will.

What will you do
in a camp of desperate men?

One woman alone.

What'll I do anywhere?

Don't worry, Andy.

I'll manage

the questions.

Always manage.

Which do you love?

The night on the white
charger or Captain Moray?

Don't you see any?

I don't have any choice.

I love them both.

Why did you follow me?

Don't you know.

I don't want you doing it?

I don't need you. That's why I left.

Is it?

It's impossible.

Can't you understand that? No.

Everything's against it.

There's 100 reasons
I know you'll have to go back.

Well, I.

There isn't one sensible reason.

No reason on earth,

isn't there?

You name it.

Go on, name it.

Don't you know.

You have a beautiful.

Dream.

We're going to make you tired.

And the rocks are waiting for

the sun

in the day.

Love the moonlight of all past.

A beautiful dreamer.

Queen of my

list.

What I

saw No.

God, All the king's

all lives busy road.

Beautiful

away.

Come to me

Beautiful dream.

Oh, oh, oh,

me, you.

Can know
like for you to be away from Can't.

Marry not without escort by my.

Stream is a hundred yards away man
I can make it just fine by myself.

Don't you think? Without an escort, a.

Girl like you shouldn't be doing all work.

If I had a girl like you,

she wouldn't lift her little pinkie.

She wouldn't.

She'd just sit up on a friend

and look real pretty.

I know your kind of girl.

I used to see your kind of girl.

Now back home.

See, I'm often

riding by animal carriages,

sitting up on them high verandas.

We're in criminals places.

I said to myself,

One of these days.

One of these days
I'm going to have me a girl like that.

Sooner or later.

I could have me a lady.

Get out of here.

I'll k*ll her.

How could you expect that?

Just men.

I met the man
I remember the fall of the old South.

The old South is dead. k*lled in action.

You did?

This is our kind of w*r, Juliet.

No bands, no banners.

Gentlemen need not apply.

Gentlemen, give up and go home.

Gentlemen,
give up and die. It's a new kind of w*r.

k*ll or be k*lled.

Survival of the savages.

It's shocking.

Of course it does.

How could you understand?

You're raised wrong.
We're all raised wrong.

Soft, soft and sweet.

Moonlight and magnolias.

That's what beat them.

Miss Creston,

may I carry a glove and a battered
high bar?

I'll wear it next to my heart.

While the Yanks carried
Springfield r*fles they wore on his shoes.

He's not
quick, Johnny Reb, but he'll learn.

You can sh**t him.

Freeze them, Stop him. He'll learn.

Next time we'll beat him.

No gestures, no gallantry, just victory.

If there isn't any next time.

Well, it will be.

That's why we're going to Canada.

Join up with General Early Will.

By that time, we're. Wait.

I've told you all before. You told me.

But when?

Soon.

Soon as I'm ready with that. Soon.

I told you.

What's the matter, Julia?

Don't you believe in me?

You know, of course

you are.

You just wouldn't believe.

For all that.

Better for tis weary,

grounded staff.

This drooping, dreary.

Burly.

Hold it.

It is.

Just for there's not a soul to.

Save.

Stop it.

That's a defeat song.
And it doesn't belong here.

No, I guess it doesn't.

I don't know what brought it to mind.

I thought it was the heat.

Boy, it sure is a scorcher.

Better than Alabama, though.

It's drier

now, man.

Don't you go worrying about the captain.

He's going to be back.

He's going to bring them all back.

He said he'll be back by sunrise.

Funny thing,

times when I'd be fit to be tired,

missing out on a raid like this.

You know, back there during the w*r.

I cared then.

I really did.

But now,

you know,

sometimes I feel like
I'm never going to see Alabama again.

Kennedy either.

I'm going to spend the rest of my life
right out here in the middle of

nowhere,

drinking rain, sh**ting

till they sh**t me,

hang me.

Miss Julia

They go in like that.

Miss Julia

It isn't, is it, Miss Julia?

You could go back.

No, ma'am.

I couldn't do that.

Fraid.

Yeah, I guess I am a little,

But it's not.

That is the captain now.

I could leave him.

Not after all we've been through together.

Get a little down spirited sometime.

Naturally, you know, get married.

Said he was going to get us to Canada
and he's going to get us

if he has to march us
through hell to do it.

You see?

I told you.

I told you they be back.

The one thing to worry about
never is with the captain.

Oh, like

that. I.

Oh. It's horrible.

Like animals fighting over it. k*ll

while

that's blowing off steam.

We had a hard day.

I suppose it was hard
robbing the poor, said those.

The things they needed more than you do.

Spoils of w*r, my dear.

Spoils of w*r.

There isn't any w*r.

And those men are soldiers.

Maybe they once were,
but they're not anymore.

They're outlaws. The savages.

The savages.

Savage.

They're good.

I'm going to take a horse.

It's.

It's all right, isn't it, Charles

McNair.

He create. I turn you into the Yankees.

Maybe I will.

Nothing sure any more.

As a child.

That's it.

Go ahead. Hold me. Hang me.

That's what they do to deserters,
isn't it, Captain?

My Juliet. Why?

Why? Rolling hills?

Why isn't. It.

Just come with me?

It's impossible.

You know that.

We'll go anywhere you like.

Canada, California.

Just so we can be together.

An officer's first loyalties to his men.

Loyalty.

You're going to take them to Canada,
don't you?

I told you that.

Have you told them
no more raiding or sh**ting?

How many?

You think I'll go with you?

How many?

Charles, that's enough.

It doesn't matter that

I can't desert.

Captain Charles Elliott Maori.

Mallory

It rang like a silver coin.

So bright and name.

Mallory's marauders, Quantrill, Raiders
all know the difference

their care except me.

Then I'll forget.

The girl, let it go.

A But she's got one of our horses.

It doesn't matter.

Motley Leopard Group.

Everybody here

can trust in writing.

All right, That's all right.

Troops in order.

Captain,

If we're going to hit Devil's Fort
before daylight, we'd better move out.

We aren't.

Raids are what?

You can't do that, Captain.

Oh, we reconnoiter
that stage station for weeks.

It's a near perfect layout,

Sergeant.
You'll break camp in the morning.

We're moving out.

We're to Canada.

They're not going to like that cabin.

Canada's far,
and we're doing fine right here.

You heard the order.

Can't rightly say that I did, Captain.

Can't rightly say that any man in his camp
should hear that order.

I'm in command here.

Maybe.

Maybe.

Captain says the rates off.

Captain says we're moving
camp tomorrow morning.

Going to Canada.

What's in Canada, Captain?

A cause a reason for.

I don't need no reason, Captain.

Just plain good.

What do you do with a course, Captain?

Can't drink it, Then spend it.

Eastbound stage lays over at Devil's Forks
tonight.

Loaded cold.

I say we take it as planned.

I'll have any man shot
that disobeys a direct order.

Reining

you in with us.

He's in.

Here.

Where are you going?

To k*ll us all, Captain.

That makes it unanimous.

Looks like you've been outvoted, Captain.

Or should I say, put it out.

All right, then.

Move.

Hurry up.

Let's go.

You better come along, Captain.

You might miss the fun.

No hard feelings. Sir.

Camp From where

I was waiting with the horses,
I saw everybody either k*lled or captured.

Is w*r over?

Say, was overtime

The Yankees won?

No, we lost.

We lost.

Who won, sir?

Nobody.

You know,

I think it's a mortal sin
ever to teach girl children to read.

No books, no Prince Charming.

No, not in a white charger.

And we foolish women at stop
spending the rest of our lives

trying to match up our dreams. Oh,

my dear Adams.

That's me, sir.

As commanding officer of Troop

C, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States
of America, known as Mallory's Marauders.

I request terms of surrender.

You do, huh?

Well, I'd like to help you,

Captain,
except that I'm not sure I'm authorized.

You're the senior union officer present?

That's right.

I'm retired.

I have been for almost five years.

Permit me to.

I'd say that the surrender
will not depend upon the terms.

If you choose,
you might take us as prisoners

and escort us under guard
to the nearest regular army post.

It's possible.

Morrison Marauders.

Tell me something,

Captain, is a matter of high curiosity

after all these years.

Why not?

When I ran out of hate, I guess, sir,
things that I started out to fight.

They didn't wear a blue
uniform anymore. Make sense?

I think so, yes.

I should have known a long time back,
I suppose, but.

Well, there's a saying I heard once.

It's a real mirror
that'll show a man his true face

and a real woman who will speak is truly

pleasant. Hmm.

You know, Captain,

my outfit was on guard
duty at the McLean house.

Appomattox.

I remember General Grant.

Deep role.

The Northern Virginia army on their own
honor.

The officers kept their sonar.

The cavalry kept their horses
for the spring plan.

I always thought that.

Was fair enough, but

I guess it.

Better keep that captain.

Someday.

You may want to show it to your sons.

My sons?

And. Oh.