historyillustrations·[Dormant] moved to [email protected]byZombiepirate The 20th Maine's bayonet charge on Little Rount Top at the battle of GettysburgView original on lemmy.world28Comments3Reply
ddrhugsymcfur lemmy.world”They kept on insistin’ they wasn’t fightin’ for no slaves, they were fightin’ for their ‘rats.’ It finally dawned on me that what the feller meant was their ‘rights,’ only, the way they talk, it came out ‘rats.’... Then after that I asked this fella what rights he had that we were offendin’, and he said, well, he didn’t know, but he must have some rights he didn’t know nothin’ about. Now, aint that something?”5Reply
RRolando lemmy.worldOne of the best scenes of the 93 Gettysburg movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-5uyp44WA Wish they hadn't added the orchestral score though.5Reply
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♪ The Union flank's in trouble ♪
♪ To the Round Top on the double... ♪
”They kept on insistin’ they wasn’t fightin’ for no slaves, they were fightin’ for their ‘rats.’ It finally dawned on me that what the feller meant was their ‘rights,’ only, the way they talk, it came out ‘rats.’... Then after that I asked this fella what rights he had that we were offendin’, and he said, well, he didn’t know, but he must have some rights he didn’t know nothin’ about. Now, aint that something?”
One of the best scenes of the 93 Gettysburg movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-5uyp44WA Wish they hadn't added the orchestral score though.