:43:30
That gesture was necessary.
I'm sorry it was so painful for you.
:43:35
Mr. Aesop is a fine soldier.
It won't happen again.
:43:40
What happened is what it's all about, Ben.
:43:45
If it was as simple as that, Amos.
:43:49
We can take care of our own.
:43:51
If you can, you waited too long to do it.
:43:54
All you people, all the way down the line.
:43:57
"You people"?
:43:58
I'm not going to thank you for keeping
your word this afternoon at the river.
:44:02
You were obliged to.
:44:05
But it wasn't easy, and I respect you for it.
:44:07
I don't need respect from a man who took
his kin to fight against their own brothers.
:44:14
I took soldiers to fight for their country.
:44:17
- You betrayed it.
- What country have I to betray?
:44:20
I'm fighting for the only country I have left,
and I kill men in a hopeless war for it.
:44:25
But not men who were my neighbors
and my friends.
:44:30
Friends.
:44:31
The best friend you ever had
was the man who got you into West Point.
:44:34
He was killed with the 2nd Michigan
in Chickamauga last winter.
:44:37
- Did you know that?
- I knew that, Amos.
:44:41
You're a would-be cavalier,
an Irish potato farmer with a plumed hat...
:44:46
fighting for a white-columned
plantation house...
:44:50
you never had and never will.
:44:55
How exactly do you see yourself,
Major Dundee?