:02:16
I hope you are keeping well
and not worrying too much about me.
:02:21
You mustn't think
any of us are gonna be killed.
:02:24
For they're collecting such a force
here that an attack would be insane.
:02:31
The Massachusetts men
passed through this morning.
:02:35
How grand it is to meet the men
from all the states...
:02:39
...ready to fight for their country...
:02:42
...as the old fellows did
in the Revolution.
:02:46
But this time we must make it
a whole country...
:02:50
... for all who live here,
so that all can speak.
:02:57
Before this war began...
:03:00
...many of my regiment
had never seen a Negro.
:03:04
But now the roads are choked
with the dispossessed.
:03:09
We fight for men and women
whose poetry is not yet written...
:03:14
...but which will presently be
as enviable and as renowned as any.
:03:22
Last night we heard
of yet another defeat...
:03:26
...but we are not disheartened.
:03:28
I am honoured to be part
of such a splendid company.
:03:32
They have made me captain,
of which I am enormously proud.
:03:37
You would think it strange
to see me giving orders to 100 men...
:03:41
...most of whom are older than I am.
:03:45
Thank you for sending
my volume of Emerson.
:03:49
His words come home to me like truth.
:03:52
''A deep man, '' he says, ''believes
that the evil eye can wither...
:03:58
... that the heart's
blessing can heal...