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00:00 [music]
00:12 The miners' tracks separated right back yonder.
00:15 It's my guess that they're going to prospect off in separate directions and then meet someplace later on.
00:20 [footsteps]
00:29 Lieutenant, you take Sergeant Mason and four men, follow the left-hand fork of this trail to the next ridge line.
00:36 Then cut across and meet us on the other side.
00:39 If you see any hostile Indians, take no offensive action. Clear?
00:44 Yes, sir.
00:46 Sergeant? Sir?
00:48 [footsteps]
00:53 Close ranks.
00:55 [footsteps]
01:02 [music]
01:14 Strange the things that some men will go through for a little poke full of gold.
01:19 [gunshots]
01:22 Lieutenant Rutgers in a fight.
01:24 For a gallop home.
01:26 [music]
01:43 [gunshot]
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01:50 [gunshot]
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01:54 [gunshot]
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02:05 [gunshot]
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02:38 [gunshot]
02:40 [music]
02:41 Yeah!
02:42 [gunshot]
02:43 [music]
02:48 [music]
02:56 Charge!
02:58 At 24, he had been the youngest general in the Civil War.
03:01 Within five years, he had been reduced in rank and sent west to be forgotten.
03:05 But he was not the kind of man to let the world forget.
03:08 His name, George Armstrong Custer.
03:11 [music]
03:35 [music]
03:56 [music]
04:06 Relax.
04:08 [music]
04:22 Poor, I'm dead as hell ever be.
04:24 Hard, Lieutenant.
04:32 We spot him down there in the valley.
04:34 Yellow Belly's tried to make a run for it.
04:37 That's as far as they got.
04:40 A Sioux hunting party.
04:43 Indian's an Indian to me.
04:45 We just might have saved those miners' lives.
04:48 Before we heard you firing, Lieutenant, we found those miners.
04:51 All four of them.
04:53 Four dead.
04:55 That makes it plain enough, doesn't it? We just evened up the score.
04:58 Did we, Lieutenant?
05:00 You just slaughtered a Sioux hunting party.
05:02 What difference does that make? We're at war with the Sioux.
05:05 Not officially, Lieutenant.
05:07 Our orders are to control and contain the Sioux.
05:10 With less than a thousand troops to patrol a half million square miles of frontier,
05:14 we can't afford to provoke any more trouble than we already have.
05:19 I think you're forgetting four dead miners.
05:21 The braves who killed those miners were Cheyenne.
05:24 One plain's tribe is just as guilty as another.
05:26 As soon as we wipe them all out, the better.
05:28 This is not a war of extermination, Lieutenant.
05:31 It's not a war at all the way you fight it.
05:34 You won't tame them by running from them.
05:36 That's enough, Lieutenant.
05:38 I'm placing you on report unless you wish to retract what you've said.
05:41 [music]
06:10 I ain't no cavalry officer, but I'd say we're on a dang fool's errand.
06:16 We'll talk about it later.
06:18 Dang fool's errand is right.
06:20 I can be the Seventh's middle name.
06:23 It's about all anybody ever thinks we're good for.
06:28 Lieutenant Rudford.
06:34 You've only been with us a few months.
06:37 Stay around a while.
06:39 You'll find out that you joined up with the best.
06:42 I'm not staying any longer than I have to.
06:48 Custer and bad graces with the powers that be.
06:51 Third-rate details, that's all we'll ever see.
06:54 I had a bellyful of a Seventh.
06:56 Lieutenant Rudford.
07:03 Yes, sir.
07:05 In this outfit, we take care of our horses before we take care of ourselves.
07:09 I suggest you get to it.
07:12 Yes, sir.
07:19 Colonel.
07:20 Yes.
07:22 It's about Lieutenant Rudford.
07:25 You know how he feels about you.
07:27 I'm not concerned about his feelings, Sergeant.
07:31 I'm short of officers as it is.
07:33 I need him.
07:34 Knowing he hates you?
07:35 Runs in his family.
07:37 All the way from praise to hate.
07:39 Lieutenant Rudford's gone the full circle.
07:42 Fifteen hours a day in the saddle can develop blisters of disillusion.
07:50 What do you think, Joe?
07:51 You're old galala, as I'd say.
07:54 That blasted young lieutenant went and killed some of Crazy Horse's people.
07:58 You know, General, our lucks are running all to the bad.
08:02 Colonel Custer, can I speak to you for a minute?
08:05 Alone?
08:06 Sure, Mason.
08:11 Lieutenant Rudford didn't mention it, but I figure it's my duty to say something.
08:16 What is it?
08:17 These Indians we were fighting, there were five of them.
08:20 We wounded the last one, but he got away from us.
08:22 Colonel Custer! Up there!
08:27 Let's ride!
08:35 (howling)
08:39 (howling)
08:43 (howling)
08:47 (howling)
08:50 (gunshots)
08:57 (gunshots)
09:00 (howling)
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09:09 (howling)
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09:22 (howling)
09:27 (howling)
09:32 (howling)
09:37 (howling)
09:42 (gunshots)
09:47 (gunshots)
09:52 Lieutenant Rudford!
09:55 Sir!
09:56 We're going to split up.
09:57 Take Sergeant Mason and your detachment and head south by Fundo Ridge.
10:00 I'll try to draw the main body of them north through the canyon.
10:03 We'll rendezvous at Broken Pine Summit in three hours.
10:06 Sir.
10:07 Sergeant!
10:08 Lieutenant!
10:09 This time, do as you're told.
10:11 The greatest weapon is speed.
10:13 Use it.
10:14 Under no circumstances attempt a fight.
10:16 Move out.
10:17 Yes, sir.
10:18 (gunshots)
10:21 (gunshots)
10:24 (gunshots)
10:27 (gunshots)
10:30 (gunshots)
10:33 (horses galloping)
10:39 Drop guidons.
10:40 Everyone quiet.
10:42 Now's your chance to even up the odds.
10:44 Form a line facing the bend.
10:50 No one fire till I give the order.
10:52 (howling)
10:55 Fire!
10:56 (gunshots)
11:05 (horses galloping)
11:32 After that little surprise party we give them,
11:34 I'll bet them Indians are still off down in that canyon
11:37 a-sneaking a slow peek around ever been.
11:39 Well, we lost them for now anyway.
11:42 I don't see any sign of Lieutenant Redford and his detachment.
11:45 They had the shortest ride.
11:47 They should have been here before us.
11:49 It's way past their rendezvous time, too.
11:52 They must have run into some trouble.
11:55 Let's circle back to the ridge and take a look for them.
12:00 You give the lieutenant strict orders to follow the ridge
12:03 to a broken pine summit, he ain't going to be off down yonder.
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12:23 He didn't follow Thunder Ridge as I ordered him to.
12:38 That young buster sure ain't one to follow orders.
12:41 He took that south valley about five miles from where we left him.
12:45 Mount up!
12:49 Couldn't have been that bunch of bucks that were following us
12:51 that got him.
12:53 There must be something we don't know about.
12:55 Crazy horse is no ordinary chief.
12:57 He knows the strategy of separating forces.
13:09 We're going to fight them or run them a horse race.
13:13 Move out!
13:14 Watch out!
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14:26 Come in.
14:29 Captain Keogh.
14:34 Any word from Colonel Custer's patrol?
14:36 Aye, sir.
14:37 The colonel sent a trooper on ahead.
14:39 Trouble?
14:40 Bad trouble, sir.
14:42 Casualties?
14:43 I'd not be knowing the details yet,
14:45 but some of Colonel Custer's men have been killed.
14:47 I was afraid of that.
14:49 Any expedition into the Black Hills is like a slap in the face to the Sioux.
14:55 After Custer sees to his men, will you have a report to me here?
14:57 Aye.
14:58 And, uh, Captain Keogh,
15:01 you will not mention our visitor to him.
15:04 I wasn't blinding to, sir.
15:06 Very good.
15:07 And, Captain, when you speak to it that our visitor has the proper accommodations,
15:12 he is a personal friend of the President of the United States.
15:16 The President?
15:17 Aye, sir.
15:18 Politicians.
15:21 If only they'd leave the army blasted well alone.
15:26 That's all, Captain Keogh.
15:30 [♪♪♪]
15:40 Did you recognize any of them?
15:42 Teton Sioux, sir.
15:43 Crazy Horse's tribe.
15:44 Crazy Horse?
15:46 You were lucky to get out of there at all.
15:48 General, I only spotted four bodies of Lieutenant Rudford's command.
15:51 While it's not likely there were any survivors,
15:54 I'd like to make sure.
15:56 What did you have in mind?
15:58 I request permission to take a patrol back there tonight.
16:00 Isn't that just what Crazy Horse would be expecting you to do?
16:03 He's probably up there waiting for you.
16:05 A calculated risk, sir.
16:07 But if there are possibly two men up there alive--
16:09 Colonel, the men in Lieutenant Rudford's command must be counted as dead.
16:13 And the affair entered into the record as ended.
16:20 Colonel Custer, you have a genius for making powerful enemies,
16:23 like General Sherman.
16:25 And now, for some reason or other, one of the most influential publishers in America.
16:30 Here, take a look at these.
16:33 Vain, glory-seeking, unfit to command.
16:38 With these newspaper articles,
16:40 Lieutenant Rudford's father is making you famous.
16:43 Or should I say infamous?
16:45 I've read most of them, sir.
16:47 Why is John Rudford out to nail your hide to the barn door?
16:54 Well, whatever it is, he's got all the more reason to hate you now.
17:01 I guess I'd better go tell him about his son.
17:05 He's here?
17:07 Arrived this morning from Washington with orders releasing his son from military service.
17:14 I'd prefer to meet Mr. Rudford myself, sir.
17:17 I think I should be the one to tell him.
17:20 All right.
17:21 I'll have the sentry bring him here.
17:24 General.
17:47 Mr. Rudford.
17:49 Custer.
17:52 You want to see me?
17:56 Mr. Rudford, I'm sorry to have to tell you, but your son is missing in action against the suit.
18:03 Must be presumed dead.
18:07 Presumed dead?
18:12 How?
18:13 How did it happen?
18:14 On patrol, sir.
18:16 Under your command?
18:18 Yes, sir.
18:19 I gave him an order and...
18:20 Weren't you satisfied with killing one member of my family?
18:22 Did you have to murder my son, too, with your inept orders?
18:25 I didn't kill your son.
18:27 I don't want to hear any more about it.
18:28 But you will listen just the same, Mr. Rudford.
18:31 If your son had obeyed my orders...
18:33 I would expect you to pass the blame to a man who cannot defend himself.
18:37 You have no reason to doubt Colonel Custer.
18:39 I have every reason.
18:41 There are many forms of murder, General.
18:43 Such as the way your Colonel Custer murdered my younger brother during the Civil War.
18:47 A strong language, Mr. Rudford.
18:49 I realize that you're overwrought, but...
18:51 I mean every word I say.
18:54 My brother rode with Custer in the Michigan Brigade...
18:57 and was killed in a senseless, glory-seeking charge against Jeb Stuart's Virginia Cavalry.
19:02 And I rode 100 yards in front of his unit during that charge.
19:05 That's easy to say.
19:06 And easy to prove.
19:10 With your insane, self-seeking instincts, I'm sure you're right.
19:15 May I be excused, sir?
19:19 You won't get away with it this time, Custer.
19:22 Your craze for glory killed my son.
19:25 And I won't rest until I prove it.
19:28 There are only four dead soldiers.
19:43 You let two of them get away.
19:46 Now we will find those two.
19:49 One of them is an officer.
20:12 Come in.
20:14 I'm beginning to know you pretty well, Colonel.
20:29 Every time you act that soldierly around me, you want something.
20:32 I respectfully request the General's permission to take three or four of my men to return to the Black Hills tonight.
20:37 Custer, I told you...
20:39 If for no other reason, sir, than to bury the troopers there.
20:43 At ease, Colonel.
20:46 Custer, I know how you feel.
20:53 Every time a man in the Seventh is killed, you blame yourself for it.
20:58 That's part of the price every leader has to pay for his right to command.
21:02 But you carry it too far.
21:04 Learn to control it, or it's going to tear your guts out, Custer.
21:08 Your request is denied.
21:11 You return to garrison and foraging duties in the morning with the Seventh.
21:16 Dismissed.
21:36 - Ditch hut! - Thank you, sir.
21:39 I'm returning tonight to the Black Hills to check on Lieutenant Rudman's detachment.
21:44 I saw only four bodies.
21:46 It's quite possible there are two men up there we can save.
21:49 More likely, they're all dead, and this will only be a burial detail.
21:53 It's also quite likely all of us who go won't be coming back.
21:57 I want four volunteers.
21:59 - Count on me, sir. - Thank you, Rio.
22:02 And the rest of you, too.
22:04 Sergeant, pick your men.
22:06 Iron rations for three days. We'll be traveling fast and light.
22:10 Yes, sir.
22:12 Oh, and, Sergeant...
22:14 don't make any unnecessary noise.
22:16 We wouldn't want to disturb General Terry's sleep.
22:19 Come in.
22:30 - Colonel. - Mr. Redford.
22:34 - I'd like a word with you, Colonel. - All right, Mr. Redford.
22:38 I've been talking to some of the men.
22:42 It seems you saw only four bodies out of that six-man patrol.
22:46 That's correct.
22:48 And you didn't even go down to investigate?
22:52 Did you also hear that we were attacked by Indians when we spotted those bodies?
22:56 I don't care if you were attacked by the whole Sioux nation.
22:59 You had no right to leave without finding out if those other two men were alive.
23:03 Don't concern yourself with my rights, Mr. Redford.
23:07 I'm heading out now with a detail to find out if those men are alive.
23:11 - I'm going with you. - No, you're not.
23:14 Let me remind you, Custer, I'm a civilian.
23:16 You cannot order me around.
23:18 That's precisely the reason you're not going.
23:22 You're dealing with a little more than you can handle, Colonel.
23:26 I don't like that man. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
23:41 Careful, Sergeant. You're liable to get your name in the papers.
23:45 I'm not.
23:47 Careful, Sergeant. You're liable to get your name in the papers.
23:51 I'm not.
23:54 (door creaks)
23:57 (train whistle blows)
24:00 (train whistle blows)
24:02 (train whistle blows)
24:05 (train whistle blows)
24:08 (train whistle blows)
24:35 That's the third batch of Sioux we've seen tonight.
24:38 They're all spread out like a fishnet.
24:41 Yeah, we're the fish.
24:44 We don't stand a chance on foot. What if we could get to their horses?
24:48 Lieutenant, I hope you're not planning on trying to sneak up on a Sioux.
24:52 - Not in his own mountains. - I didn't ask for your opinion, Sergeant.
24:56 I'd like the lieutenant's permission to speak, if I may.
24:59 - I don't need any advice. - I've been out here on this frontier a long time.
25:03 Surprise is the important element.
25:05 You take them from the other side, I'll get them from here.
25:07 You've got two minutes to get into position, Sergeant. Move out.
25:10 Lieutenant, it just won't work. We've got to keep hidden.
25:13 - Try to sneak away. - I gave you an order, Sergeant. Move out.
25:16 - Have it your way, Lieutenant. - I intend to, Sergeant.
25:24 Don't you forget it.
25:27 (train whistle blows)
25:32 (train whistle blows)
25:34 (train whistle blows)
25:47 (grunting)
25:56 (grunting)
25:58 Lieutenant, those horses are going to give us away.
26:12 That's for sure.
26:14 Let me take a look at it.
26:18 (panting)
26:20 Easy.
26:29 - Can you walk, Lieutenant? - Yeah.
26:37 Just try to put your weight on me. That's it.
26:41 That way.
26:45 I feel pardoned me for saying so, Lieutenant.
26:48 You've given about enough orders.
26:50 You're in no shape to go with us, California.
27:10 Well, I ain't well enough to stay here.
27:12 Especially after General Terry finds out that you disobeyed his orders about going back.
27:17 It'll be a hard ride.
27:20 Never knew you'd take it easy with me.
27:22 - It's not much further, Lieutenant. - Where are we going?
27:35 Remember some caves on the side of this hill.
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27:54 (horse neighing)
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28:40 Traveling out here at night all by your lonesome can be mighty dangerous.
29:07 You just about got a knife in your gizzard.
29:09 Where's Custer?
29:11 He ain't gonna have the welcome mat out for you, but I'll take you to him.
29:16 Come on, let's go.
29:35 Howdy, my father.
29:37 Well, a man accustomed to giving orders, you're not very good at taking them, are you, Mr. Redford?
29:41 I don't take orders from you, Custer.
29:44 I'm here because my son is out there somewhere and I intend to find him.
29:48 I told you I wouldn't take you along with us.
29:50 You don't have much choice in the matter.
29:52 You're wrong, Mr. Redford.
29:54 Sergeant, we're returning to Fort Hayes immediately.
29:57 No, wait. Listen to me.
30:00 Please, don't let our personal differences make you do something you'll regret later.
30:06 Those two men may still be alive, but certainly they can't be for much longer.
30:11 Custer, it's my son out there.
30:15 All right, Mr. Redford, you go with us.
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31:07 Lieutenant.
31:25 Lieutenant.
31:29 Here. With that fever of yours, you've got to have something, even if it's only water.
31:35 Easy.
31:38 Where are we?
31:46 We're hidden pretty good in some rocks.
31:50 Only trouble is, it's right in the middle of the whole Sioux Nation.
31:57 You just lie back.
31:59 You lost a lot of blood.
32:02 When I went to get this water, I was afraid it might be a waste of time.
32:07 Everything's so vague, I...
32:12 I can't get it clear in my mind yet.
32:15 You counter-rounded Colonel Custer's orders.
32:26 He ordered your men down off the ridge, into the valley to attack them Indians.
32:31 There was only three of them?
32:33 Yes, sir. They led you right into a trap of more than 50.
32:37 It's easy to see I'm not one of your favorite officers.
32:41 Lieutenant, I despise every square inch of you.
32:45 That's a bit hypocritical, isn't it? Staying behind to take care of me?
32:50 I'm a soldier.
32:54 I wouldn't run off and leave one of my own men.
32:56 You want me to despise him?
32:58 You're a fool, Sergeant.
33:02 A man's first thought is self-survival.
33:14 Why?
33:23 Why'd you do it?
33:24 No, I wouldn't have.
33:28 The way I see it...
33:33 This uniform of mine is not just a piece of cloth.
33:38 It makes me a part of my country.
33:44 If you understand that...
33:46 It seems to make a better man out of you.
33:51 It seems to make a better man out of you.
33:53 You'd be the right kind of soldier, too.
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34:33 That was close.
34:34 What happened?
34:36 Four-suit warrior just passed, looking for something.
34:39 It's more than likely us.
34:41 We gotta get out?
34:43 We gotta get out of here.
34:44 We stand a better chance tonight, Lieutenant.
34:46 Just lie back and get your strength.
34:48 You're gonna need it.
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35:02 Colonel Custer.
35:06 Mr. Redford.
35:08 This is the fifth time in the last two hours
35:12 you've rode up here to tell me how to conduct this mission.
35:15 Now, unless you have something important to say...
35:18 I overheard two of the men talking.
35:20 They say you're taking the long way
35:21 to where you saw my son's detachment.
35:23 That is correct.
35:25 Is that an example of the famous Custer dash?
35:27 Taking the long way and walking your horses
35:29 while you're doing it?
35:31 The Sioux undoubtedly know we're here somewhere, Mr. Redford.
35:34 We didn't take the short way into the valley
35:36 because that's the way they'd be expecting us to come.
35:39 And we're walking our horses,
35:41 so when we do come into action,
35:43 they'll have the strength to carry some of us out of here alive.
35:46 And I'll go back to your place and I'll call 'em.
35:49 [whistles]
35:53 [hooves clopping]
35:55 I took a pretty good look around before I come down here.
36:22 Four of 'em is all I found.
36:23 Sergeant and Lieutenant Redford's missing.
36:26 If I know anything about Crazy Horse,
36:31 we never rode this far back into the Black Hills
36:33 without him knowing about it.
36:35 And it just ain't like him to leave us alone.
36:37 But it is like Crazy Horse to pick his time and his place
36:40 for an attack.
36:42 Sergeant...
36:51 It'll be dark soon.
36:52 After you bury the men, we'll make cold camp here tonight.
36:55 Camp?
36:57 You mean you're just gonna sleep this night away
36:59 when there are two men out there who need us?
37:01 You have your order, Sergeant.
37:04 We'll make camp here tonight.
37:07 Break out the shovels.
37:11 Listen.
37:12 Listen to me.
37:14 I'll give $1,000 for every man who'll go up
37:18 into those hills tonight to look for my son.
37:20 $1,000.
37:27 You know, Mr. Redford,
37:29 I've been thinking about it all night.
37:31 I'm gonna go back to the Black Hills
37:33 and I'm gonna find out who's behind all this.
37:35 I'm gonna find out who's behind all this.
37:38 You know, Mr. Redford,
37:39 these Black Hills get a whole lot blacker after dark.
37:42 Only thing we'd find up yonder
37:45 would be some graves for ourselves.
37:47 Lieutenant.
37:48 Lieutenant, wake up.
37:50 We got to get you on your feet.
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41:40 You know, Custer, every needless delay jeopardizes the lives of those two men.
41:44 I'm aware of that, Mr. Rudford.
41:46 Just as I'm aware of the jeopardy the rest of us are in.
41:49 How badly we may need a chance to get out of here alive.
41:52 Okay, mount 'em up.
41:54 Mount 'em up.
41:58 [gunshot]
41:59 General, maybe we should have rode down to the other end of the valley.
42:11 If Mason and Rudford had escaped,
42:14 they would have headed for the protection of the rocks,
42:17 not the open area.
42:19 You know, I used to trap with an old boy that had a pretty good gruel
42:24 on how to stay alive when faced with going into hostile territory.
42:28 What was that?
42:30 Don't go in. I'm beginning to see his point.
42:33 I'm sure he'll nail on the head, General.
42:40 Crazy horse picked his time and his place.
42:43 Jim!
42:45 Rudford, come back! It's a trap!
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43:48 You go! You go!
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45:00 All right, men. Let's go home.
45:28 Yes, in a military sense, your mission can be called a success.
45:31 But also in a military sense, you willfully disobeyed orders.
45:34 And I intend to see to it...
45:36 Sir, you can see Lieutenant Rudford now, sir.
45:39 You and I will settle this later. Right now, we've got to see the boy.
45:42 If you don't mind, sir, I'd like to check on my men first.
45:45 Lieutenant Rudford is one of your men, Colonel, whether you like it or not.
45:49 And frankly, I don't think you are going to like it.
45:52 A couple of days in bed, you'll be ready for anything.
45:55 I've got some plans for you.
45:58 Ah, General.
45:59 Mr. Rudford, I want to tell you how happy I am that your son is safe.
46:02 Thank you, General.
46:04 But the point is, I don't think there was any reason for his being in danger at all.
46:08 And I'm going to see it doesn't happen again.
46:10 Tim, I have a release from the military service for you, signed by the Secretary of War.
46:15 So you no longer have anything to fear from this man.
46:18 Tell me, son.
46:21 Isn't it true that Colonel Custer did in fact send you into the hands of hostiles,
46:26 then abandon you?
46:27 Tim, I asked you a question.
46:33 Is it not true that Colonel Custer abandoned you and your men?
46:37 A few days ago, I would have said yes.
46:42 That would be a lie.
46:45 Dad, do you know what happened out there?
46:51 A man died for me.
46:54 A man that hated me and everything I believe in.
46:56 He said he wasn't just wearing a uniform.
47:00 He was wearing a piece of his country.
47:05 He said if you believed in that,
47:09 you were a better man.
47:12 All right, son.
47:16 I'm also very grateful to Sergeant Mason, but...
47:19 Let me finish, Dad.
47:24 He taught me what being a soldier means.
47:26 Sharing peril with other men.
47:30 And understanding that your life depends on their judgment and loyalty.
47:35 Just as theirs upon yours.
47:39 Tim, don't you know why I'm here?
47:43 Why I got your release from the military?
47:45 I want you to come back and help me run the paper.
47:48 I want to stay here, Dad.
47:51 If they'll have me.
47:52 What do you mean, if they'll have you?
47:55 I'm going to tell you something Colonel Custer already knows.
48:00 What happened out there was my fault.
48:04 Because I disobeyed his orders.
48:07 Four men died because of my fool mistake.
48:10 And even knowing I wasn't worth it,
48:13 I still had to go to the hospital.
48:15 I had to go to the hospital.
48:18 And even knowing I wasn't worth it,
48:20 a fifth died trying to save me.
48:22 They can't prove that.
48:24 What's more, you're no longer under their jurisdiction.
48:26 Once you sign this paper, you're out of the army for good.
48:29 I'm going to stay in the 7th Cavalry, Dad.
48:32 I'm going to stay.
48:36 And take my medicine.
48:40 Welcome to the regiment, Lieutenant.
48:47 Thank you, sir.
48:48 Wanted to see me, sir?
49:03 Custer, I want you to dictate a full report on your mission
49:07 into the Black Hills to rescue Lieutenant Rodford.
49:10 And I expect an explanation as to why you disobeyed my direct order.
49:15 Just the facts as they occurred.
49:17 Bare facts. Is that understood?
49:20 Yes, sir.
49:22 I want to see it the minute it's finished, Corporal.
49:25 Custer, you've done a good job.
49:29 Corporal, as soon as Colonel Custer is finished,
49:35 record the fact that the mission was undertaken at my order.
49:38 Yes, sir.
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