Gettysburg (1993)

C. Thomas Howell: Lieut. Thomas D. Chamberlain

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• Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : [Gen Armistead has just been mortally wounded, and is surrounded by Union soldiers]  Sir? Sir!

  Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead : Will you help me up please?

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : Sir, could you tell me what your name is? Who you are?

  Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead : I would like to speak to General Hancock. Do you know... where General Hancock may be found?

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : I'm sorry, Sir. The General is down, he's been hit.

  Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead : NO! Not... both of us! Not... all of us! Please, God!

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : Sir! Sir, we're having a surgeon come as quickly as we can!

  Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead : Can you hear me, son?

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : Yes, sir. I can hear you.

  Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead : [tearfully]  Will you tell General Hancock... that General Armistead sends his regrets? Will you tell him how... very sorry I am?

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : [takes off his hat]  I will tell him, sir. I will tell him.

• Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : I don't mean no disrespect to you fighting men, but sometimes I can't help but figure... why you fightin' this war?

  Rebel Prisoner : Why are you?

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : To free the slaves, of course. And preserve the Union.

  Rebel Prisoner : I don't know about other folk, but I ain't fighting for no darkies one way or the other. I'm fightin' for my rights. All of us here, that's what we're fighting for rights.

  [pronounces it 'rahts'] 

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : Your what?

  Rebel Prisoner : For our rights. The right to live my life like I see fit. Why can't you just live the way you want to live, and let us live the way we do? Live and let live, I hear some folks say. Be lot less fuss and bother if more folks took it to heart.

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : Where'd you get captured?

  Rebel Prisoner : From a cut just west of Gettysburg town. Wasn't a pretty sight. Many a good boy lost a young and promising life. Some wore blue and some wore gray. Seen enough of this war?

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : I guess I have.

  Rebel Prisoner : I guess I have too. Looks like I'm gonna be sittiing out the rest of it.

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : Well, I appreciate you talking to me.

  Rebel Prisoner : [salutes]  See you in hell, Billy Yank.

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : [salutes]  See you in hell, Johnny Reb.

• Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : Don't call me Lawrence.

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : Darn it, Lawrence, I'm your brother.

  Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : Just be careful of the name business in front of the men, just because you're my brother... it looks like favoritism.

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : God Almighty, General Meade has his own son as his aide de camp.

  Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : That's different. Generals can do anything they want. There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

• Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : [Tom hands Lawrence a cup of coffee]  Where have you been?

  Lieutenant Thomas D. Chamberlain : We sent out a detail and found some more departed souls down there, and they were carrying coffee for which they had no more use for, so...

  Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : Oh, you're a ghoul.