1:16:03
It will be best, I assure you, if we wait
until the entire Army can cross together.
1:16:08
General Burnside, if we don't cross
the river soon...
1:16:11
...General Lee will make every effort
to stop us.
1:16:15
He will not let us move
toward Richmond unopposed.
1:16:18
Where are General Jackson's forces now?
1:16:20
Shouldn't we attempt to occupy
Fredericksburg...
1:16:23
...and possibly the Heights beyond now,
while we have it for the taking?
1:16:27
Please allow me, sir, to at least send
General Hancock's division across the river.
1:16:33
Surely they can carry
enough supplies with them...
1:16:36
...and the artillery from this side can protect
them against any advance by Lee.
1:16:43
Gentlemen, we will cross this river
when the bridges arrive and not before.
1:16:50
I do not have the luxury of deviating
from the larger plan.
1:16:54
The president approved my strategy,
and I shall stick to it.
1:16:57
Once this Army is across the river,
we will advance on Richmond in force.
1:17:04
We must not allow him...
1:17:07
...the luxury of attacking us as divided and
separated units as he's done in the past.
1:17:11
And I will not make the same mistake
as my predecessors.
1:17:15
So no, General Hancock.
1:17:18
You will stay on this side
until the pontoons are in place...
1:17:22
...and the entire Army crosses together.
1:17:25
An irresistible, impregnable force.
1:17:37
Did you know George Washington
spent his boyhood not far from here?
1:17:41
And across that river, he's supposed
to have thrown that silver dollar...
1:17:46
...and cut down that cherry tree.
1:17:49
That may be so, Mr. Taylor, but it has
an even greater significance for me.
1:17:54
Is where I met my wife.
1:17:57
Thas something these Yankees
do not understand, will never understand.