: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?
:45:00
Have you ever stopped to think why
they made you a jailer instead of a soldier?
:45:37
December 22, 1864.
We are five weeks into Mexico...
:45:41
and have lost all contact with the Apache.
:45:44
Even the scout, Samuel Potts, admits this,
and I'm glad.
:45:48
I wish to avenge the massacre,
but I remember it too well, and I'm afraid.
:45:53
How can we catch the wind
or destroy an enemy we never see?