- Pvt. Clark: Why isn't the right flank engaged yet?
- Captain John McIntosh: Because the right flank refuses to slaughter unarmed civilians.
- [pause]
- Captain John McIntosh: You alright? A little pale.
- Pvt. Clark: Trying not to be sick, sir.
- Captain John McIntosh: We should all be sick this day.
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- Paul Garrett/Narrator: By 1861, war had spread like a dirty fog across the American landscape. While Northerners fought Southerners in the East and in Texas, in the Rockies, white men pushed into a frontier that had been occupied by red men for generations. It was a complex and disorganized campaign, this Western conflict.