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Speaker 1: This is the NBC University Theater bringing you a full

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hour dramatization of The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane,

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starring John Agar as Henry Flemick. This is a war

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story written by a boy who had never heard a

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shot fired in anger. It is a classic of American literature,

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psychologically sound, repertorially accurate, and poetically quite perfect. The Red

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Badge of Courage the short masterpiece of Stephen Crane, whose

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personal legend is as exciting as his literary accomplishment. Crane

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was the son of a minister in Newark, New Jersey,

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which background he departed early to become reporter, novelist, poet,

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war correspondent, world traveler, and intimate friend of Joseph Conrad.

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He died before he was thirty in the mountains of

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the Black Forest of Germany. We bring you to day,

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a new and exciting radio adaptation of The Red Badge

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of Courage, written by Brainerd Duffield and Emerson Crocker and

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starring in the role of Henry Fleming and voicing the

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introspective thoughts of that young soldier, mister John Agar.

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Speaker 2: The cold passed from the Earth and the retiring fogs

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revealed an army stretched out on the hills resting. A

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river lay at the army's feet, and across it one

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could see the red eyelike gleam of hostile campfires. As

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the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened

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and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors,

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rumors of war and battles some to come.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, it's cold. You're lying on your bunk, Henry Fleming, watching, listening,

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waiting for the words that's bound to come. You've been

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marched and drilled and reviewed. Surely there will be a

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battle soon. Look, here comes a soldier with news in

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his eyes.

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Speaker 4: Boys, I just heard something. I heard some fellers talking,

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and we're going to move tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: Shure, we're going way up the river, cut across and

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come around in behind them.

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Speaker 6: It's a lie, Jim Conklin, I don't believe the derned

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old Army's ever gonna get ready to move.

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Speaker 7: Eight times in.

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Speaker 6: The last two weeks and we ain't moved yet.

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Speaker 7: Is it true, Jim? Are we gonna move? Henry? Is

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what I just told you?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 7: What you're talking about? You don't know everything in the world.

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Speaker 8: Do you.

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Speaker 4: I didn't say I knew everything in the world.

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Speaker 7: Gonna be a battle? Sure is a jim of course.

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Speaker 9: There is, of course there is.

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Speaker 5: Now you just wait until tomorrow, Henry, and you'll see

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one of the biggest battles ever was.

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Speaker 3: Now you just wait, so we're gonna fight at last.

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So at last you're going to fight, Henry Fleming. Tomorrow

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there will be a battle, and you'll be honest. All

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your life you've dreamed of battles. You've seen yourself and

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visions performing deeds of glory. You've read of marches and campaigns.

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Belong to be a part of it all your life.

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Remember that day back home.

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Speaker 7: H I want to enlist.

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Speaker 10: We've been all over that son, I knee John the farm.

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Speaker 3: Chh but ma, everyone's going, They're all going.

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Speaker 10: Men are yes, you're just a boy. Time enough for

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man's foolishness. Later on, Oh, but ma, I wanna go. Ah, Henry,

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don't you be a fool.

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Speaker 3: But every day you read the papers and heard the

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gossip of the village, and every day the winds carried

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you the clangering of the church bells telling the news

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of some great victory.

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Speaker 7: They were ringing.

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Speaker 3: That day when you came home, your mother had been

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milking the brindled cow. Remember you waited in the kitchen,

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you heard her step. You'd planned a little speech, and

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then the chance didn't come to use it. After all, Ma,

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i've enlisted.

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Speaker 8: Lords. Will be done, Henry.

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Speaker 7: Seemed like like I had to do it.

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Speaker 3: I'll go and pack your bundle for you, son, And

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later in the dooryard it was time to say goodbye.

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It wasn't quite the way you pictured it would be.

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She didn't seem to understand what a glorious thing it

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was to be a soldier and march away to war.

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Speaker 10: Now you watch out, Henry, and take good care of yourself.

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Don't go thinking that you can lick the whole rebel army,

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because you can't. You're just one little feller amongst a

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whole lot of others.

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Speaker 7: I know that, Mare.

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Speaker 10: Now I've knit you eate pair of socks, and I

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put in all your best shirts because I want my

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boy to be just as warm and comfortable as anybody

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in the army. Whenever you get holes in them, I

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want you to send them right away back.

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Speaker 8: To me so I can dorn them.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Ma, I.

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Speaker 10: Will and I don't want you to ever do anything, Henry,

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that you'd be ashamed to. Let me know. I just

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think as if I was watching you, if you keep

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that in your mind always, I guess you'll come out about.

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Speaker 7: Right, MA, I guess I better get going.

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Speaker 10: I don't know what else to say to your child,

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something that you must never do. No shirking on my account.

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If so be a time comes when when you have

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to be killed or do a mean thing, Well, Henry,

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don't think of anything setting what's right, because there's many

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a woman has to bear up against such things these days.

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Lawd'll take care of us all, all.

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Speaker 7: Right, Ma, goodbye?

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Speaker 10: Uh, put a cup of BlackBerry jam with your bundle, son,

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because I know you like it above all things. Goodbye, Henry,

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watch out and be a good boy.

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Speaker 3: When you look back, you notice she was crying. Her

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face was stained with tears, and it made you feel ashamed.

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And now here you are the time has come at last,

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and there will be a battle. And now you know

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you're afraid, afraid that when the battle comes, you'll want

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to run away.

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Speaker 5: You fellas can believe me or not, Just as you like,

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didn't the cavalry all start this morning. The regiment's got

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orders too, fella. What was down to quarters told me

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a little while ago, And raising blaze is all over?

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Speaker 4: Can anybody can see that?

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Speaker 8: Shucks?

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Speaker 4: Jim, Huh what do you want, Henry?

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Speaker 7: How do you think the regiment will?

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Speaker 3: Do you think any of the boys will up and run?

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I think they'll run away.

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Speaker 5: Maybe a few of them run, especially when they first

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goes under fire horse.

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Speaker 4: Might happen that the old kitten kaboodle might start and run.

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Speaker 5: If some big fighting come first off and again, they

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might stay fight like fury.

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Speaker 7: You think they will.

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Speaker 5: They call the regiment green horns and fresh fish and everything.

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But the boys come a good stock. Most of them

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will fight like sin after they once get shooting.

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Speaker 7: Do you ever think that you might run yourself? Jim?

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Speaker 5: I thought it might get too hot for Jim Conklin,

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some of them scrimmages. But if everybody was a standing

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and fighting, well, I'd stand and fight.

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Speaker 7: But Jim and I would.

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Speaker 9: I'll bet on it.

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Speaker 7: What's you, Jim?

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Speaker 3: But you, Henry Fleming, you're not so sure. You lie

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on your bunk wondering about it. A panic fear grows

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in your mind in the blood and blaze of danger.

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Those legs of yours could run away and disgrace you

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everlasting me. You reproach and despise yourself because you're so afraid.

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Speaker 7: You don't feel like a hero anymore. What's the matter

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with me? What's the matter with me?

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Speaker 2: In the gloom before the break of day, the uniforms

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blowed deep purple. From off in the darkness came a

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trampling your feet, and a moment later the regiment went

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swinging off into the black. The air was heavy and

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cold with you. The white grass marched upon, rustled like silk.

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The men's tumb along, muttering, wondering, cursing, until at last

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the sun struck full upon the earth. Two thin black

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columns were climbing the brow of the hill like two

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serpents crawling from the cavern.

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Speaker 7: Of the night.

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Speaker 11: Hey, fellas, what regiment is that?

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Speaker 3: Where?

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Speaker 11: That's the greenhorn? Ain't you hurt? That's the no regiment?

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Speaker 12: Yish fish.

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Speaker 2: They marched all day, and at nightfall the columns broke

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into regimental pieces. Tents sprang up like strange plants, Campfires

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like red peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

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Speaker 4: The lighted moon hung in a tree top.

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Speaker 3: You have wandered a little distance from the others to

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be alone, to lie down in the grass. The liquid

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stillness of the night, the soft wind, the whole mood

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is in sympathy with you. The night takes pity on you, Henry,

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for the first time, you long to be home again.

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Perhaps your mother was right, After all, you are different

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from the others. They're just a boy. No wonder you're

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afraid you weren't cut out to be a soldier.

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Speaker 7: Hello, Henry, thus you what are you doing out here? Oh?

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Just thinking?

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Speaker 6: You're looking thundering? Picked boy? What's ailing you?

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Speaker 7: Oh? Nothing, there's nothing to be getting blue about. We

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got him now.

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Speaker 6: They've been licking our sight up to now, but this

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time this time we'll lick him. Good gee, Rod, We're

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really gonna thump this time.

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Speaker 7: How do you know you won't run when the time

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comes me?

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Speaker 8: You run? Ted? Likely?

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Speaker 7: Shucks? He ain't the bravest man in the world, are you? No?

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I ain't didn't say. I was said. I'm going to

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do my share.

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Speaker 3: That's what I s Who are you?

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Speaker 7: Who?

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Speaker 6: You talk like you was Napoleon Bonaparte. Heck, I'm going

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back to camp. I don't know what's come over you,

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Henry Fleming? Think you're so all fired smart?

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Speaker 7: Gone back there? Then, I don't care.

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Speaker 3: It didn't mean to make them mad. What's the matter?

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How brave are you? What are you watching for? There

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in the darkness? What are you listening for? Why should

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you be trembling here in the thick darkness? You lie listening, shivering,

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sick with fear.

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Speaker 7: I'm scared, Gosh, I'm scared.

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Speaker 2: In the gray dawn, the men were shaking to their feet,

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still half asleep. They found themselves hustling, running, panting through

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the woods.

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Speaker 8: What dude, should you?

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Speaker 11: Should you hurried for?

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Speaker 7: Where are you here? I'm right with you, Wilson.

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Speaker 6: You just stick close to me, and Jim has nothing

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to be scared of.

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Speaker 3: Listen for?

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Speaker 11: What's that?

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Speaker 4: It's muskets?

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Speaker 7: What's muscus? All right?

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Speaker 13: Man?

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Speaker 11: Did you hear them? Muskets?

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Speaker 7: Who are getting near? We're getting near to him? Why

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do we have to run so fast? I gotta get my.

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Speaker 3: Breath up there in the shadows. The fear sighted enemy

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is working. You're gonna be sacrificed. It's all a trap.

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Can't they see? Are you the only one who dies?

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Speaker 7: Stop them? Tell him before it's too late.

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Speaker 11: You there belong, can't you see? We'll all be killed

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like pigs.

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Speaker 14: Boys, Listen to me, I mean, get up in the

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rank there, Yes, get back there, Yes.

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Speaker 11: Sir, I am.

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Speaker 3: Don't mind him. He doesn't understand. No one knows but you. You

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didn't want to fight, and now they want to see

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the slaughtered.

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Speaker 11: Hear that artillery? Are right your mentally?

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Speaker 7: Follow me?

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Speaker 15: What are y'all jumping for? That battles most five miles away?

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We gotta walk before we get there. Come on this way,

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let's go.

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Speaker 2: The regiment slid down a bank and wallowed through a stream.

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They floundered up the other side and into a clump

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of woods. The men dug in, and they were moved,

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and they dug in again and again. They marched about

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from place to place. But when they halted for their

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noonday kneel, the guns seemed far away. There they rested,

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while the men of the new regiment watched and listened

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eagerly to the tongues of the veteran brigades, mouthing the

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gossip of the army, rumors that had flown like birds

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out of the blue.

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Speaker 16: One of the one hundred and forty eighth mean boys,

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and he's seen a big battle over in.

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Speaker 7: The Turnpike Road, killed about five thousand. Says, one more

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fight such as that and the world be over this year.

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Hanners's battery is cool. It ain't either.

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Speaker 3: I saw Hannah's battery off on the left not more

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than fifteen minutes ago.

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Speaker 11: Hey, you fellas here about Bill? Some fella trod in

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his hand. Bill says, war, No war.

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Speaker 14: He'd be dumbed if he was going to have every

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bushwacker in the country walking round.

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Speaker 11: On his hand.

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Speaker 16: He went to the hospital disregardless of the fight this right,

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and then Bill wasn't scared either. No shirt wasn't that

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three fingers was crunched the dark duct.

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Speaker 11: I wanted to have to you tate them and Bill? Sure,

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race somehar.

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Speaker 7: What are they laughing out over dinner? What can they find?

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A left at? Death is everywhere? Henry, Henry, come here?

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Can I speak to you? Sure Wilson? What do you want?

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Speaker 6: We'll be going into battle pretty soon. I got a feeling.

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I just got a feeling. It'll be my first one

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in my last.

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Speaker 7: What do you mean?

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Speaker 6: Something tells me I'm a goner the first time, And

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I want you to take these here things to send

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them my folks, it's letters and papers.

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Speaker 7: On Wilson, You're just plumb crazy.

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Speaker 6: I'm scared and I can't help it. I wouldn't tell

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that to Jim or or everyone here. You just take them, Henry,

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give them.

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Speaker 3: Here if anything should happen, I promise, Thank you, Henry.

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You're my friend, best friend I got, Henry Wilson. I

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want to tell you I'm scared too.

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Speaker 8: There.

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Speaker 7: I'm glad I told you to see. You're not the

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only one who's scared.

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Speaker 6: All right, men, battle formation, all in, good luck, Henry,

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good luck, and thank you Henry hard.

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Speaker 2: The brigade formed in line of battle and advanced slowly

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through the trees. Soon they came to some little fields,

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girted and squeezed by the forest. They halted at the

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fringe of the grove and saw the dark battle line

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spread out along the sun struck clearing that gleamed orange color.

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The grass and tree trunk swore a gentle fabric of

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softened greens and browns. A flag flooded. It looked to

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be the wrong place for a battlefield.

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Speaker 3: The time has come, Henry Fleming. The landscape lies before

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you like a threat. That house in the deserted field

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looks evil to you. The shadows beyond the wood are frightening.

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It's much too calm. I wish they'd get it over.

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I wish they'd get it over.

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Speaker 7: Now is the time for waiting. And what will you remember?

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Speaker 3: The village streeted home and that circus parade that day

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last spring. Remember how you stood there a thrillful boy

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to see the dingy lady on the white horse and

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the band in its faded sinseil chariot. Oh, it was

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beautiful to see here. My god, you've got your holding back.

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Speaker 13: We got to hold him back, by Harry, we'll do

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our best, Colonel.

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Speaker 4: I get ready, boys, stick close to Jim Conkling.

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Speaker 11: We'll give him places. We're in frend Now we're in frind.

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Speaker 15: Now hold up, man, don't shoot till I tell you,

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wait till we get up close.

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Speaker 7: Quick, quick, Oh lord, let it happen quick?

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Speaker 11: Oh man? Why now where.

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Speaker 7: We held him back? We held him back?

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Speaker 3: Turned if we haven't.

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Speaker 7: I thought I was going plumb, deaf and blind. I

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couldn't see a thing for smoke, and the sweat was

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getting in my life. I got so hot it burn

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my fingers. Look, my hand's got the shake right, know it?

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And then you hear drums like a crack wide open. Well,

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we held him back, didn't we. Hey, where's Jim kurtle goun?

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Speaker 11: Jim?

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Speaker 7: Why he was standing right here when the fight begun.

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I've seen him.

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Speaker 3: You don't suppose he got hit to you, Henry.

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Speaker 6: Oh, lots of boys got hit, somebody guests got chilled.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if he got scared and run away him

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after all the talking that he done.

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Speaker 7: I bet you, I bet he run away.

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Speaker 3: You didn't run, though, did you, Henry? You stood fast

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and didn't run. Listen to the cannon from the hillside.

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They're fighting over there and over there and over there.

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Look at the sky. Just look at that blue, pure

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sky and the sun gleaming on.

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Speaker 7: The trees and fields.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't it seem strange that all the world can turn

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to gold in the midst of all this devilment. Well

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it's over, Henry, and you're still alive. You're braver than

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your thought.

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Speaker 14: Again, No, no, he'll say this here is too much.

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Speaker 11: So we ain't never gonna stand a second, chargem.

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Speaker 1: Then come here and fight the whole dang rebel on

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me here is mill smiths, and on my hands sit

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of somebody treading on his not you out here?

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Speaker 11: Why don't they take us work? Why don't they send support?

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Funny boys? They're coming in again.

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Speaker 3: Oh please God home.

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Speaker 4: The firing ripped along the regimental line level.

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Speaker 2: Sheets of flame burst up in clouds of smoke that

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tossed and tumbled near the ground. And through the smoke

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the enemy came running, howling, streaming like an onslaught of dragons.

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This was the monster, the red animal war, the blood

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swollen guards.

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Speaker 3: Run, Henry, before it's too late. Throw down your right

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when a run. No one's looking at you. No one

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will stop you.

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Speaker 7: Throw your gun or be destroyed. Yes, I will, I will,

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I will. You're running now, don't be a shane.

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Speaker 17: Run.

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Speaker 7: Don't look back. Death is behind you. His knife is

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at your shoulder.

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Speaker 3: Planes run, your rifle's going, your cap is going, your

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coat is bowling in the wind. Run like a blind man, plunging, falling,

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beating your way deep deep into the wood. You're safe now, Henry.

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The battle's far behind. You needn't run so fast. You're

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all alone? Are you the only one that ran? Why

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didn't the others run away? Fools, stupid machine like fools.

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You're pity though A man's a fool who doesn't run

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from danger.

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Speaker 8: Stop.

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Speaker 3: You are here alone in the cathedral, out of the forest.

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You are the only coward, the only one who ran away.

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And here you stand beneath the high arched branches. It's beautiful,

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It's like a chapel.

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Speaker 8: Here.

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Speaker 7: Look out.

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Speaker 3: You're being looked at by a dead man, sitting with

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his back against a tree. His uniform, once blue, has

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now faded to melancholy green. Those eyes staring at you

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a turned fish, belly white.

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Speaker 7: The mouth is open.

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Speaker 3: The wind raises the tawny beard as if a hand

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were stroking it. Why do you stare into those liquid eyes?

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Speaker 7: He cannot answer your question. Don't look at me. I

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couldn't help it. I never meant to run away.

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Speaker 3: No voice will come from that dead throat to answer you.

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Speaker 7: Go away. The thing will not pursue you.

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Speaker 2: Softly, the trees began to sing a hymn of twilight.

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The sun sank till slanting rays of bronze struck the forest.

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There was silence save for the chanted chorus of the trees.

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And yet now and again, upon this stillness, a crimson

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roar came from the distance. The voice of cannon fire

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shook the pines. The battle, like the grinding of some

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terrible machine, went on, producing corpses.

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Speaker 3: You have come to a narrow road, and through the

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glimmering dust you see the bud stained crowd of wounded

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men streaming to the rear. One of them has a

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shoe full of blood and hops like a schoolboy in

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a game. Another man is being carried, full of anger

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at his wound.

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Speaker 15: Don't juggle so, you fools, you think my legs made

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of iron, Lord John, If you can't carry me decent,

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put me down, Let somebody else do it.

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Speaker 3: Another is a tattered man, dusty and powder stain. His

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head is bound up with a blood soaked rag. His

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arm is bleeding too, dangles like a broken bow. Fall

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in and marched beside this man. Hear what he has

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to say, showing the crowd, and march among the wound.

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Speaker 9: To the Pretty good fight, wasn't it?

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Speaker 18: Boy?

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Speaker 7: What you say?

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Speaker 8: Was there?

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Speaker 9: Pretty good fight? Wasn't it?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 19: Learn me if I ever see fellas fight so laws,

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how they did fight?

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Speaker 9: I knowed the boys do it. Once they got square

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at it. They're fighters.

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Speaker 13: They didn't let them fellas fight out of them by.

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Speaker 9: Like to run us wounded down them fellows?

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Speaker 7: We with, boy, what regiment three hundred and fourth New York.

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Speaker 9: I'm with one hundred and forty eighth main myself. But

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we was all there together. Went We We showed them,

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didn't we?

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Speaker 7: Sure show we did?

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Speaker 9: I was talking cross pickets with a boy from Georgia.

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Once that boy says, your fellows will all run like

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tovid on once they hear the gun.

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Speaker 19: He said, maybe the will, I says, but I don't

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believe none of it.

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Speaker 9: I says, Well, they didn't run today, did they?

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Speaker 20: Hey, boy, I reckon not, no, sir, They fit and

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fit and fit?

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Speaker 9: Were you wounded?

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Speaker 4: Boy?

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Speaker 9: What where'd they wound?

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Speaker 7: Your?

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Speaker 14: Boy?

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Speaker 9: He did very bad?

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Speaker 7: He walk by yourself. I don't want to talk to you.

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You'll let me be, that's right. Get away from him.

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Speaker 3: He mustn't know. You have no place in this mob

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of bleeding men.

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Speaker 7: You envy them.

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Speaker 3: You wish you too had a wound, a red badge

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of courage like the rest. Who's this besides you?

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Speaker 8: Now?

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Speaker 3: There stalks a man already the gray seal of death

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is on his face.

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Speaker 7: He stalks like the specter of a.

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Speaker 3: Soldier, his eyes burning into the unknown. Now now look again,

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Something in the in the gesture of the man, the

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wax like face, makes you start.

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Speaker 8: You know it?

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Speaker 7: Jim?

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Speaker 3: Is it you?

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Speaker 7: Jim Conklin? Hello, Henry? Oh, Jim, I hardly knew you.

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Speaker 9: Where have you been, Henry? I thought maybe it got

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keeled over?

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Speaker 7: I was worrying him about you. A good deal, Jim here,

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let me help you walk along? Yeah, yeah, you know.

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Speaker 9: I was back there, Henry.

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Speaker 7: Oh what a circus?

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Speaker 4: Jimminy got shot? Yep, Jimmy got shot back there?

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Speaker 7: What're you gonna do? I'm gonna do to help you them?

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Is there anything?

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Speaker 9: I'll tell you what I'm afraid of, Henry. I'm afraid

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I'll fall down.

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Speaker 17: And you know, them horses gallop them dumb artry wagons

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they like?

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Speaker 4: Is not a run right over me.

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Speaker 7: I'll take carr of you, Jim.

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Speaker 9: I swear, will you, Henry, because that's what I'm afraid.

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Speaker 7: Oh, yes, I tell you.

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Speaker 17: I'll tell I was always a good friend, Jim, wasn't

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I Henry always been a pretty good following him.

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Speaker 4: Ain't much task?

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Speaker 10: Is it?

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Speaker 4: Just to pull me out?

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Speaker 11: Of the road so I won't get troubled. I'd do

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it for you, wouldn't I Handry.

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Speaker 7: Sure you would. Jim here here, hang on to me.

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Speaker 11: Give me wrong, No, no, I can wrap on myself.

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Speaker 3: Don't touch me.

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Speaker 7: Re me be, Jim, where are you going to?

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Speaker 11: Where you're going?

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Speaker 9: You'd better take your friend out in the way. Boy,

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there's a battery coming hell and he whoop down the

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road and you'll get runned over.

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Speaker 19: He's a gone ann about five minutes, poor fellow.

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Speaker 9: You can see that from his face.

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Speaker 7: Jim. Don't go so fast, but he walking fast for me.

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Speaker 9: Be let me be. I tell you where the Blazers dies.

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He get history from Jim.

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Speaker 7: Jim, Wait for me.

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Speaker 11: What are you saying, Henry, there's a battery coming through.

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Speaker 7: Let's get over into the head op into the fields.

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Speaker 11: Oh father, he's run autre.

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Speaker 3: Come back, Jim, Jim, what are you doing? What makes

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you do this way? You hurt yourself?

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Speaker 7: Wait up?

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Speaker 17: No, no, no, don't touch me. You two fellas stand

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away from me.

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Speaker 7: Just don't come dear me no more.

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Speaker 9: Leave him son, leave him, stand by himself.

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Speaker 7: Boy, Jim, I'm sorry for what's happening.

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Speaker 9: Just don't no one touch me.

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Speaker 4: I'm where I got to be.

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Speaker 3: You watch him, standing there, motionless in this open field.

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Speaker 7: He holds himself erect.

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Speaker 3: His hands cake red and black with blood, hang at

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his side.

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Speaker 7: He is waiting with patience for something he's come to meet.

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He's at the rendezvous. This is the place.

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Speaker 11: Leave him be, Jim.

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Speaker 7: He stiffens. He stares into the sky.

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Speaker 3: His tall figure stretches to its fullest height and swings forward,

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slow and straight. He twists his shoulders, strikes the ground.

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Speaker 7: Oh no, no, no, go closer.

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Speaker 3: Gaze at that pacelike face. The teeth shone a laugh.

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The flap of the jacket falls away, and so it's

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as though his side were chewed by wolves. Jim turn

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out with a sudden, livid rage.

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Speaker 7: Flinch your fist and shake it. At the battlefield war.

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Speaker 4: The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.

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Speaker 7: From Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: The NBC University Theater is bringing you, John Agar in

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a radio version of The Red Badge of Courage by

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Stephen Crane. This play is part of a series devoted

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to the classic novels of Anglo American literature. If you

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are interested in supplementing your enjoyment of these productions with

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home study under college supervision. Be sure to listen to

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the announcement at the close of this program. And may

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we say at this point that the NBC staff which

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prepares and produces these dramas, deals deep thanks and gratification

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at the first Place award in the category of Literature

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and Arts, presented to the NBC University Theater by the

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nineteenth Annual Institute.

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Speaker 7: For Education by Radio.

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Speaker 1: And may we say at this point that the NBC

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staff which prepares and produces these dramas, deals deep thanks

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and grati v occasion at the first Place award in

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the category of Literature and Arts, presented to the NBC

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University Theater by the nineteenth Annual Institute for Education by

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Radio at Ohio State University. And now our intermission commentator,

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mister Mark van Doren, the noted author and critic speaking

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from New York. Here is Mark van Doren.

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Speaker 21: The Red Badge of Courage is a modern novel in

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that it has no plot and no characters. It has action,

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for it deals with the battle, and by the same token,

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it is full of men, a few of whom we

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see it painfully close range, but as hero, Henry Fleming,

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never becomes known to us as more than an obscure

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northern boy who has been caught, like thousands of his kind,

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in the storm of Civil war. We are not told

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where he came from or what his past had been,

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just as we are given no vision of his future

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after war is done. So with his good friend Wilson,

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whose first name we never hear, and so with Jim Conklin,

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the tall soldier who takes more time to die that

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than any man in his condition should. His side, says

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the author, looked as if it had been chewed by wolves.

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The author, Stephen Crane, published this book in eighteen ninety five,

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when he was twenty four. It had been written still

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earlier than that, by a brilliant young man who himself

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was to die at thirty. It was the product of

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no direct experience with war. Crane had merely heard old

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soldiers talk, had read all he could find about the

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great battles of thirty years ago, and had studied Tolstoy,

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the first novelist whoever presented war entirely in terms of

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its confused effect in the minds of individuals. Crane's only

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interest is in the successive states of Henry Fleming's consciousness,

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his fear that he will be afraid, his being afraid

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when the time comes, and all the later forms of

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his real or imagined courage. The battle that fills the

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book is present to the reader only as it is

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present to the hero, in a series of thoughts and impressions,

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some of which are like photographs, and some of which

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are like modern paintings broken in line and color. The

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Red Badge of Courage, then, is not so much a

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novel as it is a study of one emotion, terror

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in a being neither individualized nor distinguished. Henry Fleming is

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a member of the mass, seen with miraculous clarity in

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the midst of the only experience modern humanity has in common.

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If it was not so clear in eighteen ninety five

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that this would be the case, fifty years have proved

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Stephen Kraine a prophet. In his masterpiece, he anticipated all

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subsequent wars and all subsequent treatments of them. Their true

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terror lies in what they do to unknown soldiers like

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Henry Fleming. Yet Henry Fleming is not unknown, thanks to

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the genius of his creator. Neither, in consequence, are the

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Las Lives and deaths of millions like him. They live

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and die again in the brilliant, pathetic pages of this

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bloodstained book.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, mister Van Doren.

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Speaker 2: Our radio version of The Red Badge of Courage, starring

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John Agar, will continue from Hollywood after a brief pause

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for a station identification.

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Speaker 4: The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.

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Speaker 3: You stand there in the empty battlefields, you and the

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tattered soldier, And look where Jim Cockman lies.

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Speaker 7: I never saw a handful dead before.

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Speaker 9: He was a dandy for nerve. Now wanted a regular

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dandy for nerve.

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Speaker 7: Yes he was, he was.

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Speaker 9: I would look here, boy, he's up and gone, and

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we might as well look out for number one. He's

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all right here. Nobody won't bother him, I know.

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Speaker 19: Besides, I ain't enjoying any.

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Speaker 9: Too great help myself right now.

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Speaker 7: Oh no, it won't happen, not again, Not to you too, boy.

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Speaker 9: Just hold my arm. I'm commencing to feel pretty bad.

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Speaker 7: Oh you mustn't.

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Speaker 19: I ain't gonna die, no, sir, I can't. Too many

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folks depending.

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Speaker 9: You ought to see the swaged children that I got

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in all like that.

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Speaker 7: We better get away. I don't much like it here.

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Speaker 9: Help me along, then, young fellow.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, come on, we gotta hurry catch you stup along

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though fast.

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Speaker 9: Don't know who's a kin.

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Speaker 19: I'll try, though you you're looking put him peekd yourself,

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young fella. I bet you've got a worse one than

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you think. Whered They wound your boy?

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Speaker 11: Where'd you hurt?

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Speaker 7: He ain't know your gol dang business? When I'm hurt,

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you just keep moving.

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Speaker 19: Oh, don't mean no harm in asking boys, just you

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would want to take care of your hat. Don't do

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to let such things go might be inside mostly in

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00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,320
them kind place thunder?

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Speaker 9: Does it hurt you bad?

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Speaker 7: I said? Don't bother me?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 19: Lord knows, I don't want to bother nobody.

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Speaker 9: Got enough hurts some moan to tend to. Was it

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your first fight today, boy?

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Speaker 8: Yes?

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Speaker 7: Come on?

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Speaker 9: Was you scared out there in the battle?

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Speaker 7: Scared? Of course I wasn't. Why should I be scared?

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Speaker 19: And I guess I was in my first battle pretty

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well scared. Sometimes there was an awful lot of noise,

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you know, I thought the whull sky was falling down.

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Speaker 9: You bet I was scared.

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Speaker 7: What do you have to tell me that the trouble

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was I.

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Speaker 9: Thought they was all shooting at me.

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Speaker 19: Yes, sir, I thought every man in the other army

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was aiming at.

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Speaker 9: Me in particular. Of course I got used to it, but.

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Speaker 19: First time off I was pretty well scared.

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Speaker 3: I ain't got no time to listen to all your

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foolishness talking about.

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Speaker 7: Your wounds and hurts and being scared.

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Speaker 3: You can't walk up faster. I'm going on and leave you.

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I'm going by myself.

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Speaker 9: No, now, look here, boy, don't do that, young fella.

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I can't keep up to you. What ails you, young fellow?

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Speaker 7: You ain't going to wait leave me.

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Speaker 4: I won't have it.

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Speaker 9: You mustn't, you must.

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Speaker 7: I'm going you get on better by your nose, stay

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with me.

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Speaker 9: Stay please, I'm all alone.

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Speaker 7: Stop grabbing them asleep yours. I'm getting away in there.

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Speaker 11: Please don't go way.

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Speaker 18: Come back.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna die the way the other day. Better get

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away from him. You can't stand to see that happening again.

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Speaker 13: Boy, come back, Come by the furnace.

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Speaker 2: Roar of battle, whoever louder the roads were crying. Massive wagons,

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teams and men here were sweeping them along, cracking whips,

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bitten deep, the horses plunged and tongued. The flight was lost,

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the army blinded by the overhanging night, stunned and helpless,

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back to lick its wools.

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Speaker 7: Now you're in the midst of them, in the heedless

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throng of the walking, the riding, the running, the limping.

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Were you running?

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Speaker 8: Why? Why?

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Speaker 1: There ain't no reason, kid, The line's broke, field gone crazy?

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Speaker 11: Stop?

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Speaker 7: Wait, tell me what's happened?

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Speaker 11: To get on my way? Boy, don't stand in my way.

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Let gold of me.

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Speaker 7: Oh, tell me what's happened?

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Speaker 14: Tell me, boy, if you don't want me to crack

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it with this musket, stand inside it.

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Speaker 7: Where's the line? Break?

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Speaker 11: Tell me you? Let gold me turn you pouring.

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Speaker 3: You're on the ground. Your head is thundering with pain.

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It lurks along in the grass, in your hands and knees.

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You feel the wet blood on your brow.

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Speaker 5: Seemed to be in a bad way, boy, Let me

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have your arm.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's the way on your feet now?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, oh I see, ain't wounded?

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Speaker 8: Bad?

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Speaker 22: Looks like the bullet only graved you, just like somebody

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hit you with a club.

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Speaker 7: Wounded. Sure, you're a wounded boy.

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Speaker 22: Now I'll just get your arm around my neck and

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we'll be hicked. Looks like the armies left us way behind.

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What regiment you with?

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Speaker 7: Fourth New York?

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Speaker 23: What's they three hundred and fourth New York? If I

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if they got their sheriff fighting too? By dad, I

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give myself up for dead. A dozen times they was

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just shooting here and a hollering there. Couldn't tell which

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side was which. The most mixed up darned thing I

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ever seen.

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Speaker 7: Easy there, I'm all right. I just slept. How'd you

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get way over here?

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Speaker 9: Your regiment was fighting in the center. Don't worry, though,

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I'll get you back.

709
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,599
Speaker 7: To I don't want to go back. I can't go back.

710
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:08,599
Speaker 8: You can't go back.

711
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:10,760
Speaker 7: Why I lost my rifle?

712
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,599
Speaker 4: I lost shucks, boy, they'll get you another.

713
00:41:14,119 --> 00:41:16,079
Speaker 7: You can start all over. No, don't.

714
00:41:17,159 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 18: I don't worry, boy, I'll get you back. It takes

715
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:38,280
me half the night. Hell, there you are, boy, here's

716
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:42,199
your regiment. See that fire over in the holler. You

717
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,280
think you can make it on your own from here?

718
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,159
Speaker 7: Yeah? I said, sure, I can make it. Yeah, I'll

719
00:41:49,199 --> 00:41:49,840
be heading back.

720
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,079
Speaker 9: I want to find my crowd for midnight.

721
00:41:52,119 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 7: If a kin good luck to be a boy. Thanks.

722
00:41:56,519 --> 00:42:04,039
I want to tell you thanks. Goodbye. There's no turning

723
00:42:04,119 --> 00:42:04,679
back now.

724
00:42:05,679 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 3: How they will laugh at you, how they will jeer

725
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,880
the runaways come home. Here's Henry Fleming, the celebrated conumd

726
00:42:14,639 --> 00:42:16,840
fired one shot and then ran away.

727
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,159
Speaker 11: Oh oh, who goes there?

728
00:42:20,679 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 7: Henry Fleming? Is this the three hundred and fourth Fleming?

729
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 8: That's you, Henry?

730
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 3: Hello, Wilson, you won't pick it guard. Yes, it's me, Henry.

731
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,159
Speaker 6: Oh, by Ginger, I'm glad to see you. I give

732
00:42:34,199 --> 00:42:35,840
you up for a gunner. I thought you was dead

733
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:36,360
for sure.

734
00:42:37,119 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 3: I've been all over way over Yonder, terrible fighting over there.

735
00:42:41,199 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 8: And you was in it, Henry.

736
00:42:43,039 --> 00:42:45,639
Speaker 7: I got separated from the regiment, but I was fighting.

737
00:42:46,199 --> 00:42:47,440
I've never seen such fighting.

738
00:42:47,559 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 3: Gosh, Henry, let me see your head.

739
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 8: They wounded you.

740
00:42:51,079 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 6: Well, there's blood all over you. Why don't you tell

741
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,360
me first? Hold on a minute, we gotta get.

742
00:42:55,199 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 7: You tended to. It's Fleming, sir. He's come back and

743
00:42:58,400 --> 00:42:59,239
he's been wounded too.

744
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,199
Speaker 11: Lem Me, I give you up for dead.

745
00:43:01,199 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 7: Two hours ago?

746
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 4: Where was you?

747
00:43:03,079 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 7: Way over Yonder? I got separated.

748
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 15: Half the feller's coming back just skid out on when

749
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,199
they heard the guns. But I can see you've been

750
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:10,000
fighting fleming.

751
00:43:10,079 --> 00:43:11,079
Speaker 7: Does it hurt like thunder?

752
00:43:11,119 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 8: Henry?

753
00:43:12,159 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 7: Sure it hurts, hurts the plenty Wilson. You're relieved.

754
00:43:15,599 --> 00:43:17,199
Speaker 15: You take him back and see his wound is dressed

755
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,599
and put him to sleep in a blanket. I'm glad

756
00:43:19,639 --> 00:43:21,880
to see we got one fighter in the outfit.

757
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 7: Here, Henry.

758
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 6: Let me straightened that bandage. The ball just grazed you

759
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,920
raised a queer lump. But it must have stopped late

760
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:45,760
a long time ago.

761
00:43:46,159 --> 00:43:50,519
Speaker 7: It did. Sure does hurt, though. How's the bandage now?

762
00:43:51,079 --> 00:43:51,639
Feel good?

763
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 6: Sure in the morning you'll most likely feel that a

764
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:56,679
number ten hat won't fit you.

765
00:43:57,679 --> 00:43:58,639
Speaker 3: Eh.

766
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,639
Speaker 7: Sure, good to be back with my own regiment again.

767
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:03,960
You just rest easy now, Henry.

768
00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 6: You've been as brave as anyone, and you need to

769
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:07,960
get some rest.

770
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:10,599
Speaker 7: Thank you, Wilson, forget it.

771
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 6: I know I'm clumsy like a blacksmith when it comes

772
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,719
to taking care of sick folks, and you never squeaked once.

773
00:44:18,639 --> 00:44:20,159
Speaker 7: You're plenty brave, Henry.

774
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 6: Most soldiers would have went to the hospital and never

775
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:24,239
come back at all.

776
00:44:25,039 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 7: Not me. I brought you my canteen full of coffee.

777
00:44:31,559 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 8: Just drink it all up if you like. Here. Now

778
00:44:35,519 --> 00:44:38,960
get over by the fire blanket. It'll keep out the cold.

779
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 7: I reckon, hold on, where are you going to sleep?

780
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,719
I got your blanket? What are you gonna use?

781
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 6: I'll be right here. I shut up and go to sleep.

782
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,920
I'll be making a fool of yourself. You need it

783
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:51,559
more than I do.

784
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:11,079
Speaker 3: The campfires gleam rose and orange life, and all about you,

785
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:16,079
the soldiers lying deathlike slowly. The fire crackles like music,

786
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:20,800
and you feel warm and good. The last sound that

787
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,280
you can hear is the far off calling of a dog,

788
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:29,159
a lonely sound. You lie there, half asleep, half dreaming.

789
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,119
Speaker 10: I don't want you to ever do anything, Henry that

790
00:45:32,159 --> 00:45:33,559
you'd be ashamed to tell me.

791
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 8: Just think as if I was a watching you.

792
00:45:36,599 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 10: If you keep that in your mind always, I guess

793
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,480
you'll come out about right.

794
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 9: I don't know what else to say to you.

795
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,159
Speaker 7: Sound whole lot of the boys started to run.

796
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 5: I suppose i'd run, and once I started, I'd run

797
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,920
like the devil. But if everybody was a standing and

798
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:55,960
a fighting, I'd stand and fight.

799
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:57,760
Speaker 7: I'd bet I would scared, and.

800
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 6: I can't help it. I wouldn't tell that to him everyone,

801
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:01,400
but I'm scared.

802
00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 9: My first battle there was an awful lot of noise.

803
00:46:04,039 --> 00:46:07,360
You know, I thought the sky was falling down. I

804
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,960
thought the whole world was coming to an end. Oh,

805
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:10,719
I was scared.

806
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:11,159
Speaker 8: All right.

807
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,679
Speaker 10: Don't do a thing you'd ever be ashamed of.

808
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:14,199
Speaker 3: Son.

809
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,639
Speaker 8: Don't come near me. Don't touch me.

810
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 9: I don't want you to touch me. Where you wounded?

811
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:20,119
Speaker 15: Boy?

812
00:46:21,039 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 9: Does it hurt you bad? Where are you wounded?

813
00:46:25,119 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 11: Come Bart, come bear?

814
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 7: Oh please, I didn't mean to run away.

815
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 6: No, no, no, Henry, Henry, wake up. Oh you've been

816
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:36,320
having bad dreams.

817
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:36,599
Speaker 8: Boy.

818
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,519
Speaker 7: Just take it easy, Just get some rest.

819
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Wilson. You're a good fellow. You're a dandy.

820
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,880
Oh I didn't tell you, did I Jim Conklin's dead.

821
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,599
I seen him die? I forgot to say. Is he

822
00:46:55,519 --> 00:46:58,400
Jim Conklin? I see him shot in the side. He

823
00:46:58,599 --> 00:47:07,599
was you don't say, Jim poor cuss? Yeah? Uh, Henry, Yeah, I.

824
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,159
Speaker 6: Guess you might as well give me back the packet

825
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,840
and letters and things I gave you to keep for me.

826
00:47:14,119 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 3: To send my folks. Oh, well, sure they're here in

827
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:17,400
my pocket.

828
00:47:17,519 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 8: Here.

829
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,199
Speaker 7: Thanks, Henny. That's all right.

830
00:47:21,199 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 8: Wow, good night, Well and the old man.

831
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:48,280
Speaker 7: How you feel it's morning? Pretty bad? My head feels

832
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:50,679
like swoll up like a melon. I was hoping you'd

833
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,400
feel better. Oh, I feel better, all right.

834
00:47:54,599 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 3: Thanks for everything you did for me, Willis, I want

835
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:58,239
nothing here.

836
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 7: I brought you some breakfast. Thanks, say thanks. There's a

837
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:04,639
battle going on.

838
00:48:04,679 --> 00:48:08,079
Speaker 6: I guess m over beyond the hill. He'll probably send

839
00:48:08,119 --> 00:48:10,880
us up there soon enough. What do you think our

840
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,000
chances are, Henry? I think we can wallop him, don't you.

841
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 7: I don't know. I hope so, Henry.

842
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:21,280
Speaker 3: She'd assure have changed. You know, a week ago, you'd

843
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,239
have been bragging it. You could have licked him by yourself.

844
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:25,840
I guess I was a pretty big fool.

845
00:48:25,639 --> 00:48:26,519
Speaker 8: Back in them days.

846
00:48:27,039 --> 00:48:28,079
Speaker 7: It was just last week.

847
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, Henry, I've changed since then.

848
00:48:31,039 --> 00:48:33,599
Speaker 7: I guess you'd have offered to take on the whole

849
00:48:33,679 --> 00:48:36,079
kitten ker buddle. The war can teach him on a

850
00:48:36,119 --> 00:48:36,719
lot of things.

851
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 8: Here.

852
00:48:38,639 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 6: Let me fix that bandage. It's slipped down all around

853
00:48:41,519 --> 00:48:45,079
your ears. Yep, I was a pretty big fool.

854
00:48:45,159 --> 00:48:48,559
Speaker 7: Hey, God, start it go slow. He acted like you

855
00:48:48,639 --> 00:48:49,800
was nailing down a carpet.

856
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,559
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry, Henry, look good. Don't don't mind my hollering.

857
00:48:54,039 --> 00:48:55,400
You're you're a real good friend.

858
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 6: We'll show him today, won't we, Henry. We'll give them blazes.

859
00:48:59,559 --> 00:49:01,599
Let's go fill up our canteens down to the brook,

860
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,800
all right, they say we got them rebels in a

861
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,760
pretty tight box. We got them just about where we

862
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,119
want them, that's what they say.

863
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,639
Speaker 7: Well we handled them rough enough yesterday, and that's for sure. Oh,

864
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:28,639
we'll give them blazes. Wait and see water, sure taste good.

865
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,639
M Fill up your canteen, henry'd be your last chance.

866
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:36,599
Speaker 11: Today, can't bridget Yes, sir?

867
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:37,079
Speaker 9: Who's that?

868
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 7: It's the old general itself? Can't see you, skinny reckon?

869
00:49:40,519 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 5: Not Yes, General, The enemy have taken up positions in

870
00:49:43,519 --> 00:49:44,280
the river grove.

871
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 7: I've got to drive them out of here. What troops

872
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:47,480
can you spare?

873
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,639
Speaker 16: I've had to order in the twelfth I really haven't any,

874
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:51,159
but there's a.

875
00:49:51,199 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 11: Three hundred and fourth.

876
00:49:52,079 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 8: Hey, that's us.

877
00:49:53,199 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 16: They're the green Horn Regiment forest off that I got.

878
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,719
Fight like a bunch of mule drivers. But I'll send

879
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:00,599
them in if you say.

880
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,159
Speaker 7: So, sir, get ready, then i'll give you word when

881
00:50:04,159 --> 00:50:04,480
the start.

882
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:06,760
Speaker 11: Yes, sir, Colonel, I don't.

883
00:50:06,559 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 5: Believe many of your mule drivers will get back alive,

884
00:50:09,559 --> 00:50:13,440
but we'll do what we can to support them.

885
00:50:13,639 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 7: Mule drivers?

886
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:15,079
Speaker 11: Are we.

887
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,280
Speaker 14: I mean, Wilson, We're the w bent Do you kept

888
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,800
the whole regiment? Wait, we're gonna charge. We're gonna charge,

889
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,880
sure shooting, I can't at lyon. We heard him give

890
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:37,360
the order? Who the old general is?

891
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 11: Such right?

892
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:39,119
Speaker 7: Your Russell?

893
00:50:39,199 --> 00:50:41,159
Speaker 3: And the colonel says, we was a bunch of mule

894
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,000
The general, he says, send them.

895
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,760
Speaker 11: Lordy, we'll all be swallowing out. Come on, man, all in,

896
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:47,280
we're gonna march.

897
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 2: The regiment marched to a line of rifle pits along

898
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,719
the line of woods. Before them was a level of

899
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,800
spent your field, And from the woods beyond they heard

900
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,480
the popping of the skirmishes. The day had grown wall

901
00:51:06,559 --> 00:51:10,239
white until now the sun shed its radiance upon the trees.

902
00:51:11,599 --> 00:51:15,559
The men waited and rolled their eyes toward the impending battle.

903
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 7: When the signal comes, my ball, You're gonna charge this time.

904
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:23,880
You'll show them you mean business. You'll show them.

905
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:36,280
Speaker 3: You're not afraid. Don't run, don't flinch. Whatever happens. This

906
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:39,280
is a war. A patch of grass no bigger than

907
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,320
your yard at home, A little clump of trees where

908
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,360
men are hiding a flag that flutters in the wind.

909
00:51:46,159 --> 00:51:49,239
That is the object of the game. To get that flag.

910
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:51,519
Tear it down and you'll be a hero.

911
00:51:52,440 --> 00:52:00,119
Speaker 11: Now ready.

912
00:52:01,199 --> 00:52:04,280
Speaker 2: The trees quivered with the firing. The ground shook from

913
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,679
the rushing of the men. Sunlight made bright twinklings of

914
00:52:07,679 --> 00:52:12,039
a steel. Bullets buzzed and spanged into the tree trunks.

915
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 22: With your knock here up the.

916
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:19,559
Speaker 11: Open, you all get killed.

917
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:20,519
Speaker 22: Cod with them.

918
00:52:20,679 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 11: We gotta get a quick patch of grass.

919
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:24,199
Speaker 6: All the way pod Let.

920
00:52:24,159 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 11: Me go lagging there, Flenny, what's the matter with you?

921
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:28,159
Speaker 9: Help me? Coward?

922
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:29,760
Speaker 11: Boys? Come on yourself.

923
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:45,760
Speaker 3: There their head flashing through the drift of smoke. You

924
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,800
see there flying the banner of the enemy. Seize it, Henry,

925
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,039
you'll almost rip it down.

926
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:51,519
Speaker 7: It's mine, it's mine.

927
00:52:51,559 --> 00:52:52,039
Speaker 8: I'll get it.

928
00:52:52,599 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 3: Plunge forward, clutch it, fling it, wretch it free.

929
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,199
Speaker 7: The color sergeant falls and turns this dead face to

930
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:57,679
the ground.

931
00:52:58,119 --> 00:52:58,559
Speaker 6: I got it.

932
00:52:58,639 --> 00:52:59,079
Speaker 9: Hi got it?

933
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 11: Boys. Look, we licked a man. Don't you know enough

934
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:19,159
to quit? But there ain't nothing to shoot at. I'm

935
00:53:19,199 --> 00:53:21,000
here's a fighter writing out all right.

936
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,079
Speaker 7: Henry, Oh, I feel fine. Nothing the matter is they

937
00:53:23,199 --> 00:53:24,079
shooting in the air like that?

938
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:25,280
Speaker 11: By heaven?

939
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,639
Speaker 15: If I had a dozen wildcats like young Fleming here,

940
00:53:27,679 --> 00:53:29,239
I could try to stomach out of this war in

941
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:30,199
less than a week.

942
00:53:43,599 --> 00:53:46,559
Speaker 7: By thunder. I bet this army'll never see another regiment

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like us. You bet.

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Speaker 11: Hey, Look who's there. It's the Colonel Feller. Look good work,

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mister Hasbrook Thank you, sir. I never thought you could

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do it, that's sir.

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Speaker 15: Anybody that says my boys ain't good fighters, it's just

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a plain fool.

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Speaker 7: That's true.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 11: By the way, who is the lad that got their flag?

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That's Flumming, sir. And he's at Jim Hickey.

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Speaker 8: You're that, Henry.

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Speaker 7: You're a Jim Hickey o coy.

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Speaker 16: Yes, mister Hesbrookie is indeed the very good man to have.

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I saw him take that flag, Yes, sir, you.

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Speaker 15: Bet he and a fellow named Wilson was at the

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head of the charge and howling like Indians all the time.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's Wilson.

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Speaker 11: Were they indeed at the head of the regiment.

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Speaker 1: Eh?

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Speaker 16: Well, those two babies they deserve to be major general, Yes, sir, Yes,

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they deserved to be major general.

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Speaker 3: H Henry, you can write that to your mah coy.

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Speaker 7: Get along, you fellas.

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Speaker 2: The enemy had fallen back. The battle was all over now.

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The orders came for the Blue Coats to retrace their

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steps the way they'd come that afternoon, and it rained,

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and the procession of victorious soldiers soon became a draggle train,

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despondent and muttering, marching with churning effort through thick black

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MUDs beneath an ugly sky.

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Speaker 7: What are they marching us over this way?

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Speaker 8: First?

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Speaker 7: If you ask me, I'd say, what's going down here?

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Speaker 11: Aways? Swing around? Is coming to hand?

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Speaker 13: Oh?

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Speaker 8: What do you know about it?

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Speaker 7: Telling me we're coming around in behind him? Well, it's over,

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ain't it, Henry?

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Speaker 8: For a while?

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Speaker 7: Yep, it's over. You're being mighty quiet boy? What are

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you thinking about it?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 20: Oh nothing, God, dang it. I could have to rain

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today for anyhow, rain sheep. But you don't mind the rain,

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do you, Henry Fleming? Your shame is gone and your fear,

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and that's the thing that counts. You feel a sense

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of quiet manhood, of strong and sturdy blood that's flowing

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in your veins. You know that you won't flinch again, however,

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run from danger.

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Speaker 3: You've been out to touch the great death and found that,

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after all, it is but death.

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Speaker 7: You were a boy, you have become a man.

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Speaker 2: Over the river, a splash of yellow sun came through

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the leaden clouds.

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Speaker 1: You have been listening to The Red Badge of Courage.

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An NBC University Theater production of the Stephen Crane novel

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starring John Agar as Henry Fleming next week. At the

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same time, we will bring you another classic of Nglo

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American literature, The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The

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present semester of the NBC University Theater is devoted to

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the classics of Anglo American literature from the time of

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Henry Fielding to that of Henry James. If you wish,

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you may learn more about these authors and their works

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by enrolling in the college supervised courses now being offered

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in connection with the NBC University Theater. The University of

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Tulsa in Oklahoma, Washington State College, and Kansas State Teachers

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College have now completed their plans for offering such a

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course in the coming months, thus joining the University of Louisville,

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whose established home study plan is already serving listeners in

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another area of the nation. For information, then as to

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how you may enhance your knowledge through these courses right

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to NBC University Theater in care of the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky,

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Washington State College, Pullman, Washington, the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma,

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or Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburgh, Kansas. The Red Badge

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of Courage was adapted for radio by Brainerd Duffield and

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Emerson Crocker. Our intermission commentator was Mark van Doren, starred

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as Henry Fleming was John Agar, who appeared to the

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courtesy of David o' selznick, producer of Portrait of Jenny,

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starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton. Our cast included Ted

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vonn Els, narrator, John Dayner, William Lally, Nourene Gamill, Lee Millar, Jack,

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Lloyd Frank Gersta, Tom Charlesworth, Harley Bear You're announcer Don Stanley.

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The original musical score was composed and conducted by doctor

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Albert Harris.

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Speaker 7: The director of the NBC University Theater is Andrew C.

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Speaker 20: Love.

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Speaker 7: Next Week Be with Us Again the NBC.

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Speaker 1: University Theater dramatization of Joseph Conrad's in Throwing short story

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The Heart of Darkness starring Brian Heard. This program came

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to you from Hollywood. This is NBC, the National broadcasting Company.

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Speaker 3: Oh