"Harktoawand'ringson'sappeal" "Maryland,myMaryland!" "MyMotherState!" "Tothee Ikneel" "Maryland,myMaryland!" "Forlifeanddeath,forwoeandweal" "Thypeerlesschivalryreveal..." "My friends, you want a speech, but I cannot make one at this time." "I must have opportunity to think." "Undue importance might be given to what I said." "However, there is one thing I will do." "You have a band with you." "There's one piece of music I've always liked." "Heretofore it hasn't seemed the proper thing to use it in the North." "But now, by virtue of my prerogative as President and commander in chief of the Army and Navy," "I declare it contraband of war and our lawful prize." "I ask the band to play "Dixie"." "Your daughter craves affection." "Now I ain't got no fortune, but I'm just bubbling over with affection!" "And I'm ready to pour it all over her, like apple sauce over roast pork!" "Mr Trenchard, I see that you have not the good manners of society." "And for that reason alone, I forgive the impertinence of which you are guilty." "Ooh!" "I don't know the manners of society?" "!" "Just a minute." "I think I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal." "You sockdologizing old man-trap!" "... I'm liable to call myself some awfully bad names!" "You know, friends, 400,000 dollars is a big pile of money to light a man's cigar with!" "Sic semper tyrannis!" "Mr Lincoln has been shot." "Oh, I can't make it." "The bone is ramming through the skin." "But we've got to get across the Potomac, sir." " We won't be safe till we're in Virginia." " I can't do it." "Hey, you!" "Inside that cabin there." " Come here, boy." " Yes, sir, captain." "Do you know if any doctor lives around here?" "Doctor?" "Yes, sir." "I knows one." "Doctor Mudd." "Doctor Sam Mudd." "He lives just around that bend." " Can I help you, boss?" " No." "Get out." "Get out!" "Come on." " Sam." "Sam!" " Huh?" " There's somebody at the door." " Oh, it's the stork." "Looking for Aunt Rosabelle's cabin." "I've been waiting for him." "If the stork hasn't learned his way to Rosabelle's after 11 visits, he never will learn." "11?" "That's right!" "Don't you and Martha have breakfast till I get back." "Plenty of battercakes too, cos I'm gonna be hungry." "Keep it turned up, cos it's raining out." " Doctor Mudd?" " Yes." "His leg's broken." "Can you do something for him?" "Yes." "Let's get him inside." "I'm sorry to have to cut your boot." "I'm sorry." "I know it hurts." "Hurry, please." "I've got to be going." "Oh, no." "Not on that leg." "You've got a bad transverse fracture." "You'll be lucky if you're on that in a week." " Just fix it the best you can." " Hurry!" "Let me see." "I haven't got any regular splints here, but..." "Take it easy now." " Coming down from Washington?" " No, from, er..." "Baltimore." "I'd like to have been at the White House last Sunday when Abe asked the band to play "Dixie"." "I guess old Abe's all right after all." "Looks to me like he's the only salvation we Southerners can look for." "Him and..." "God's mercy." "I never thought anybody but doctors had to be out at this hour." " His mother's dying, over in Virginia." " Oh, I'm so sorry, sir." "Where's that knife?" "Oh, thanks." "Dear, get some brandy, will you?" "Now, I'm gonna set this leg." "First, I wanna give you a good, stiff drink of brandy." "Think you can stand it?" "Thank you." "Now, it'll only take a second or two." "Easy now." "Easy now." "There." "There." "It's downright foolish trying to travel on a leg like that." " I can put you up in a spare room..." " How much do I owe you?" "Oh, I don't know." "Two dollars will cover it." "Thank you." "Oh, say, look, wait a minute." "I want to give you a prescription." "This is gonna help to ease that pain." "It's a sedative." "I want you to get it filled, soon as you can." "Thank you, doctor." "You've done me a great service." "I'm sorry if I seemed rude or abrupt." "Things like that can't matter to a doctor." "His door has gotta be open..." " Good night, sir." " Say, I do wish you'd change your..." "Good night." "Queer sort of..." "Sort of snake, wasn't he?" "Mm-hm." "How much?" " Huh?" " How much?" "Good heavens!" "50 dollars." "50!" "Oh, Sam, there must be some mistake." "Shall I call him back... or lock the door?" "Lock it, lock it!" "And bar it, too!" "And to think I called him a snake." "He's probably a kindly old philanthropist, just looking around for deserving families like us!" "At five o'clock in the morning?" "Oh, of course!" "Philanthropists don't care what time it is." "He probably said to himself, "Here's a pretty good couple." ""Of course, he don't amount to much." "Just a country doctor." ""But his wife." "Poor little thing!" "Pretty as a picture, too." ""Tied up to that country pill peddler, stuck down here in the woods," ""as unhappy as she could be, so I'll give 'em 50 dollars."" " He thought no such thing." " All right." "What do you think he thought?" "He probably said to himself," ""My goodness, here's the luckiest woman I've ever seen." " "She's got the sweetest child..."" " Wait a minute!" "How'd he know that?" "Philanthropists know everything." ""As for her husband, no matter how far out in the country he may be," ""he set my leg better than any New York specialist could do it." ""So I'll just make this his lucky day and pay him 50 dollars!"" "Well, if that's what he aimed to do - to give us a lucky day - he certainly knew how to start it right." "Well, it was nice while we had it!" "She's ready for you now." "She sure is ready for you now." "Ah, the stork." "It's here." "Master Sam, Aunt Rosabelle ain't gonna have no stork, is she?" "Whoa!" "You!" "Come here!" "You the man said his buggy was stolen last night?" "Yes, horse and buggy." "Took it outta my barn." " Which way the tracks go?" " Up that away." " They must have come from that way." " We're on the right track." " Who lives up that road?" " Doctor Samuel A. Mudd." " Shall we try him?" " Sure, we'll try everybody." "It's certain he got help from somebody." " What about him?" " Arrest him." "Take him to Washington." "But, I tell you it was not a question of slavery and never was." "It was a question of states' rights." "The constitution of the United States laid down certain fundamental truths." "One of them was that the individual state had a right to secede at any time." "But, what happens..." "What in thunder's that?" " That's just hominy grits." " Oh, hominy grits." "Flies over everything!" " Where's your ma?" " She hasn't got up yet." " Where's your pa?" " He's out." " What?" "Who's sick now?" " Aunt Rosabelle, I think." "What ails Rosabelle?" "Huh?" "Oh." "Here, honey, would you mind leaving the room for a minute?" " Why?" " Because your grandpa says so." "Ha ha ha!" " Ha ha, to you!" "Now run along." " Shoo shoo!" " Yeah, shoo shoo to you." " Shoo shoo!" "Get out!" " What about Rosabelle?" " Rosabelle gonna have a baby." " By gad, how many is that?" " She say 12." "What's Rosabelle trying to do?" "Start a whole new generation by herself?" "Jangling bells when you're trying to eat breakfast!" " Yankees!" " Wait!" "Sorry, sir." "Is this Doctor Mudd's home?" "It is." " By gad!" " Where is Doctor Mudd?" " Who wants to know?" " Lieutenant Lovett, US army." "I am Doctor Mudd's father-in-law." "Colonel Jeremiah Milford Dyer," "Fourth Virginia cavalry, Confederate States army." "Well, maybe you'll help us, sir." "We're looking for two men who passed through Maryland last night." "One of them was hurt." "Had a bad leg." "Broken probably." "Did you see or hear anything of them?" "If you order that animal to keep his nose out of my affairs, I may answer you." "Wait outside, Sergeant." "In front." "Have you ever heard of John Wilkes Booth?" "Never." "He's quite a well known actor." "By gad, sir, I leave actors to women." "Rockabye,littlebaby..." "Therewerean oldwoman who lived in a shoe" "Shehadso manychildren, she didn't know what to do" "Soshespankedthem and put them to bed" "Howdy, little Johnny Reb." "What do you call that?" "That's my dolly's carriage." "That's the first time I ever saw a dolly's carriage with a spur on it." "Look, you've broken my dolly!" "Oh, we can fix that." "Come here." "I've done this lots of times." "This will be easy." "And, if I had my way, by gad I'd line up every official of the North, sir and have them shot." "Yes, sir." "Have them shot!" "And are these the sentiments of your son-in-law?" "My son-in-law, sir, is a Southerner." "Then with your permission, Colonel, or without it, we'll wait here for him." " But..." " Colonel, stay here." "And sit down!" "You coloured brothers have got to realise that you're no longer slaves, you're free men, and you're as good as any white man in the state of Maryland." "The right to vote is yours and it's up to you to take it." "Don't let him think he can scare you." "You're just as good as he is." " You're as good as any white man." " Wait!" "Who gave you permission to come on my land and take my hands away?" "You can't bluff me, Mudd." "You're a slaver and you always have been." "You gonna get off my place or you wanna be thrown off?" " These coloured men are my friends." " Go on, throw him off." "Get back!" "Keep away!" "Don't you dare lay your black hands on a white man." "Why, you just been tellin' us that we're as good as you is." "Hey, Buck!" "Come here." "Yes, sir, Master Sam." "Get back to your cabin." "Rosabelle's baby's born." "Is she, sir?" "Well, what kind I got this time, sir?" "A fine looking boy, strong as a bull." "Giddy up." "I do declare!" "Another boy." "That Rosabelle sure do have a lot of children, Master Sam!" "You hear that, mule?" "Well, whose big girl is this coming to meet her daddy?" "It's Martha." "But, honey, you've been crying." "Wait a minute, who made my big girl cry?" "The soldier broke my dolly, see?" "No, no." "There aren't any soldiers around here." "You ought to know that." "Peggy." "Oh, Peggy..." " Good morning." " Good morning, nothin'!" "Don't speak to the filthy Yankee hounds." "Come bustin' in a man's home when he's eating." " Doctor Mudd?" " Yes." "Do you know John Wilkes Booth?" "I've seen him..." "Yes, I've seen him on a stage in Washington." "Would you recognise him if you saw him on the street?" "Well, I suppose so." "Yes, I believe I would." " Was he here last night?" " Of course not." "Bring Mrs Mudd down." "Here, if you harm my..." " What's the meaning of all this?" " You can't even guess, I suppose?" "Sam!" "What does this mean?" "What are they going to do?" " Now will you good enough to tell us?" " Certainly." "Doctor Mudd is under arrest for conspiracy in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln." "If this court don't have the courage to hang these murderers of Abraham Lincoln, we'll hang 'em!" "Let's get 'em now." "Burn the traitors!" "Gentlemen." "Mr Erickson, the Assistant Secretary of War." "Good morning, gentlemen." "I suppose you all realise that as members of the court martial for the trial of the conspirators in the assassination of our president, you have on your souls a grave responsibility." "We realise it very deeply, Mr Secretary." "The object of this trial is not to determine the guilt or innocence of a handful of rebels, but to save this country from further bloodshed." "The solemn truth is that the Federal Union is on the verge of hysteria." "That is why the trial has been placed in your hands rather than in a civil court." "Because men of the sword can be hard." "And hardness is all that can save this country from riots, mob rule, even the resumption of the war itself." " Have you any suggestion, sir?" " Two, to help you to be hard." "First, you must not allow your judgement to be troubled by any trifling technicalities of the law, or any pedantic regard for the customary rules of evidence." "Second, and most important," "You must not allow yourself to be influenced by that obnoxious creation of legal nonsense, reasonable doubt." " Is that clear?" " Yes." "Briefly, the voice of this court has got to be the voice of the people." "Before you start, I want you to hear that voice." "Listen to it." "Bring the prisoners." "Prisoners, to the bar." "This court is now in session." " Mr President." " The Judge Advocate General." "The death of John Wilkes Booth, who was shot down while resisting arrest in Virginia, has left us eight members of his criminal band." "So, in the name of the government of the United States, a crime of assassination and conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States, is charged against the following..." "David E. Herold." "Lewis Payne." "George A. Atzerodt." "Michael O'Laughlin." "Edward Spangler." "Samuel Arnold." "Mrs Mary E. Surratt." "And Doctor Samuel A. Mudd." "Doctor Mudd, I'm General Ewing." "With your permission, I should like to act as your council." "Thank you, General." "We'll fight together now, as we once fought each other." "Thank you." "With the permission of the court, we will begin the cases in order." "We will start with the charge against George A. Atzerodt." "But isn't there any kind of news you can give us about Doctor Mudd?" "That's all they're gonna tell, what you see on the board." "That's War Department's orders." ""War Department's orders." Ha!" " Didn't know they had one!" " Ssh!" "Good night, Sam, darling." "The government will now present it's case against Doctor Samuel A. Mudd." "Tell them I've got to speak." "I can't let them treat me the way they've treated these others." "General Ewing, instruct the defendant to remain silent and respect this court." "I'm confident, Mr Erickson, that after observing the conduct of these trials," "Doctor Mudd's respect for this court is every bit as great as my own." "Frank J. Thomas will take the stand." "Tell the court what you know of Doctor Mudd's loyalty to the Federal Union." "Doctor Mudd was a dyed-in-the-wool slaver." "Yes, sir." "Slaver." "Doctor Mudd's name was on the prescription, which I failed." "Doctor Mudd served in the Confederate Army." "Doctor Mudd denied that he'd ever seen Booth." "Doctor Mudd denied everything, until I showed him Booth's boot in his own home." "Doctor Mudd, when I examined him in prison, confessed to me that he set Booth's broken leg and then aided him with directions how to reach Virginia." " The case is ended." " No!" "No!" "The case is not ended." "Here's one defence you're gonna hear." " The prisoner will observe order." " Why?" "What more can you do to me?" "What threat have you got left?" "You can hang the innocent as well as the guilty." "Because you nine gallant officers and gentlemen, have stripped yourselves of your pride and honour." "I'll not go without trying to blacken your memories with your insane injustice you'll carry on your souls till the day you die." "Till the day you die you ask yourselves in your heart three questions." "Does an assassin confide his plans to anyone?" "Was I, a physician, in the plot because it was part of John Wilkes Booth's plan to break his leg and to need me?" "Does a man, whose first devotion is no longer to a lost cause or to any flag that flies, but to his wife and his child, risk any act that could only cause misery and heartbreak on innocent lives?" "In the sight of the holy God I worship, I'm innocent." "The court will ignore the remarks of the prisoner." "Sergeant." "And you still can't tell me what they've decided?" "Lady, I must have told you 40 times that I don't know any more than them bulletins." "He's coming now." "But, General, isn't there any possible means of stopping things, just for a while?" "I'm using every legal means that I know of." "Be brave, my dear." "Peggy." "Martha." "No, darling." "Don't do that." "It won't be long now." "We'll all be back together again." "Sam, don't you know?" " Haven't they told you?" " Told me?" "You mean that you've heard." "Sam, the verdict... was guilty." "Guilty." "I don't know, it's..." "It's like a nightmare." "You can't fight, you can't run, you can't do anything." "All the time it's coming toward you." "But, darling, we haven't given up." "We're not through yet." "No, we're not giving up." "You and Martha and me." "But if Daddy has to stay away a little while longer," "I want you to take care of Mummy." "Dry her tears, try to make her happy." "Tell her, too, that in the bottom draw of the roll top desk there are a lot of old bills that Daddy never got around to collecting." "Maybe they'll get enough, though, to send you to school, buy some new dresses." "Try not to forget Daddy." "Come on, come on." "Let's go!" "We're not giving up." "Not yet, dear!" "Hey, bring him downstairs." "My cell is here." "Ha!" "You ain't going to need a cell any more." "I'll see General Hunter." "I know him very well" "Martha." "Order halt!" "Oh no, not now!" "No, no, not now!" "Please!" "Steady." "Steady, dear." "Say, you got the best place in the yard." "Over yonder is where they're comin' out." "Courage." "Courage, my dear." "Right face." "Forward march." "Right face." "Forward march." "Sam!" "Darling!" "Courage." "Courage." "Well, looks like that's all." "He's going to live." "Live!" "Present arms!" "Oh!" "Well, I guess the show's over." " What about him?" " Life imprisonment on Dry Tortugas." "A new bunch from Washington prison, sir." "Hard ones." " Report 'em to the Office of the Guards." " Yes, sir." "Mudd." "Number six." "All right, left step." " Next." " William A. Dunger." "William Dunger, insubordination, striking an officer, ten years." "Left step." " Next." " Otto Lehrman." "Otto Lehrman, desertion, 20 years." "You'll never make it, Otto." "You're too old." "The mosquitoes will get you!" "Left step." " Next." " Samuel A. Mudd." "Doctor Samuel A. Mudd." "Doctor Mudd, I've been waiting for you." "So all they gave you was life." "Couldn't hang you, eh?" "You're gonna wish they had before I'm through." "Take a look at him, you filthy rats." "Take a look at the man who killed Abe Lincoln, the greatest man who ever lived." "Look at him!" "Watch him get what's coming to him." " Next." " Left step." "All right, drop your chains." "Attention." "Now, before we go any further here," "I want you to listen to me because I know exactly what you're thinking, every mother's son of you." "You're figuring on whether you're gonna be able to break out of here." "We've got a little way here of putting thoughts like that out of your heads." "Follow me." "You first, doctor." "Come on, get up!" "Halt!" "Now, whenever you slobs get to figuring on breaking out of here," "I just want you to give a little thought to this moat." "It runs all around the island." "It's 75 feet wide and 35 feet deep." "You know what we keep in it?" "We keep pets in it." "Nice little pets!" "We got more pets in that moat than you can count and sometimes we feed 'em." "Not often." "Oh, no." "But just for you, because I like you," "I'm gonna give 'em a little treat." "Now watch close." "Buck." "Move on, white man." " A prisoner, sir." " Just a minute." "Now, you know that's quite interesting." "Those are mosquito larvae." "See there." "But not very interesting to anyone but a medico, I'm afraid." "Well, I'm also a physician, sir." "No?" "Now I am pleased." "That's Doctor Mudd." "Oh." "Well, I thought that..." "I thought that as another physician, you would understand the circumstances." "The obligation of a doctor to give aid to anyone, whoever he might be." "Mr Mudd, if you assumed you might find sympathy here, get rid of the idea." "The profession you dishonored is ashamed of you." "Ashamed of your membership in it." "As a doctor, I may tell you that I despise you even beyond the rest of the world." "It would be of no use for me to swear to you on the honour of the profession we both respect that I had nothing to do with the death of Mr Lincoln?" "It would be of no use whatever." "I'm sorry, sir." "Master Sam." "Master Sam." " Oh, Buck." " Master Sam." "I'm sorry, sir, but I was too scared this afternoon." "I couldn't say nothin' to you then." "Oh, I know." "Tell me, what are you doing down here?" "I been here a month waiting for you, sir." "You see, Miss Mudd, she told me to get on down on this here island." "So, here I is." "Done got on down on it." "Buck, you've given me the first hope I've had since this nightmare started." "Yes, sir." "I guess so." "But, here's some soap I brung you." " What?" "Oh yes, I guess I do need it." " Yes, sir." "But, it's for the mosquitoes." " Mosquitoes?" " Yes, sir." " You put it on your face..." " Oh, I know." "Because there's more mosquitoes on this island than I ever seen before." " I know." " Watch it!" "My home, sir." "Darling, General Ewing." "How do you do, General." "This is Judge Maiben of the District Superior Court." " How do you do, Judge." " How do you do, sir." "The judge is a Yankee, but he's honourable." " He's gonna get Sam out of jail." " Colonel!" "Won't you sit down?" "Let me take your things." "Please sit down." "Let me explain, General." "At my request, and for my own satisfaction," "Judge Maiben has gone over the case, word by word." "On the evidence produced, no civil court could hold Dr Mudd for ten minutes." " You have some sort of plan, Judge?" " The plan is Mrs Mudd's." "No judge dare devise anything quite so, er... extreme." "I explained what happened to the writ of habeas corpus you obtained for Sam." "The government simply laughed at it." "But if a writ was served on him in, say, Key West, a civil municipality, it would be honoured?" "Of course, but Doctor Mudd's not in Key West." " I know he isn't... yet." " What did I tell you?" "Great Scott, Mrs Mudd, you surely wouldn't dare..." "General Ewing, I'd dare anything for my husband." "and it isn't only freedom I want for him, it's exoneration, too." "He's innocent and I want them to say so to the world." " But if we wait..." " Wait!" "Wait for what?" "For the government to kill my husband." "That's all we've done is wait, and trust and have faith." "I'm sick of waiting." " I found a way to Sam out." " Just a moment, Mrs Mudd." "Now, all I have to say is this." "If Doctor Mudd should be able to deliver himself to the civil authorities in Key West," "I could have a writ of habeas corpus there to be served on him." "Under its protection, he could be brought back here." "I'd re-open the case and I feel sure give him a far different trial to the one he had at the court martial." "But, as for how Doctor Mudd is going to be able to get to Key West, well, I think I'd rather not hear." "Good luck, my dear, and remember," "I won't be the only Yankee who'll be praying with you." " And don't let anything disturb you." " I won't." " Good day, gentlemen." " Good day." "We'll sell, pawn, mortgage everything." "We'll get enough money..." "Oh." "You understand what this means to me, don't you?" "It's all that's left of our lives." "Sam's and Martha's and mine." "And it's only your support behind us that we're asking." "You can leave the escape entirely to me, sir." "Within 24 hours, I'll have 5,000 of my old brigade under my command, we'll seize a war vessel or two and blow the whole prison to ashes and deliver Sam in Key West with a guard of honour." "I'm sorry, Mrs Mudd, but if you're set on such a foolhardy plan," "I must withdraw from the case." "But we have to do it." "He's got to be free to be tried." "It's the only way." " Don't you see?" " I'm sorry." " The risk is too great." " By gad, sir..." "And if you take my advice, you, too, will abandon this mad scheme." "What do you think?" "By gad, we'll show these chicken-hearted Yankee lawyers!" "You leave it to me." "I'm getting tired of this fiddling' around!" "Lawyers!" "Lawyers are no good..." "Lawyers!" "Habeas corpus!" "There." "See that?" "Stonewall Jackson gave me that." "Pure Toledo." "And if I don't get 150 dollars for that," "I'll split the heart of the swine that dare offer me less!" "Open the door!" "Master Sam." " Master Sam." " Yes, Buck." "Oh, thanks." "Yes, sir, that's me." "I fixed my name up a little bit to make it sound kind of nice" "Buck, I'm ready." " Tonight, sir?" " Yes, tonight." " But the moat and sharks?" " I'm gonna try the bridge." " But they got a guard on it." " I know." "Watch it!" "If I could go with you, I can arrange to be the guard that's on the bridge." "That's right!" "We could both go together." "Now listen." "There's gonna be a boat, gonna flash two lights." "I have to swim out to it." "Nice view?" "What's outside?" "Just outside." "Don't start anything you might be sorry for, doctor." "Second guard detail, forward step!" "Guard detail, halt!" "Right face." "Number two, step out." "What were you doing down in that cell block?" " Says which?" " I saw you!" "No, sir, it weren't me." "As you were." "Left face." "Forward step!" " What's up?" " I don't know, but I'm gonna find out." " What post is that boy Buck on?" " The bridge." "He swapped." "That's what I thought." "Place him under arrest and bring him here." " What's up?" " Mudd's out." "Wait!" "He's out, but I don't want him back alive." "Do you understand?" "Post extra guards at the bridge" "We'll see if we can give this Judas what the court martial should have given him." "Tell 'em to shoot!" "Guard, watch that..." "No..." "Wait." "Guard that magazine over there." "Quick step!" "Halt!" "Who goes there?" "Corporal of the Guard, the star boarder's out." "Rankin don't want him back." "His orders are to shoot on sight." "If I see him I will." "With pleasure." "Mudd's out." "Double all your guards!" "Guards, halt!" "Cover that cell." "You cover that out there." "Go and watch that gate." "The rest of you follow me." "Soldier, you're under arrest." " But I just..." " Keep it to yourself." "Move!" "Take your post." "Buck." "Buck." "Buck!" "Bring out those pieces, on the double." "Wait!" "There he is!" "Keep firing." "He'll never make it." "If we don't get him, the sharks will." " What sharks?" " What sharks do you think, sir?" "Sergeant, with that barrage on the water, you're lucky if you've got a shark left in 100 yards of this spot." "Stop firing, you fools!" "You wanna drive those sharks away?" " Keep your eyes open." " I don't see anything down here." "Look yonder." "He's outside." "There's a boat putting in toward him." "Rankin, man two boats." "I want that man back." " Alive." "You understand?" " Yes, sir." "Boat crew." "Number one." "Number two." " Man your boats!" " Man your boats!" "Get on your way!" "Pull, you measly rats!" "Starboard a little more." "There he is, boys." "Pull him in." "Pull, you measly rats!" "On your way!" "You're all right now, Sam." "Come along." "That's the boy." "He's all right." "Now, get him over here in this bunk." "There you are, Sam." " Oh, darling, you're so cold." " Easy, now." "Don't get him excited." " Oh, my darling, you're wounded." " He's all right now." " You're an angel." " Everything's arranged for." "You're gonna have a new trial." "And Martha's waiting." " Where's Martha?" " In Key West." "She hasn't forgotten me?" "Oh, my sweet!" "Not for one little minute." "By gad, I'll soon stop this!" " You stay here with Sam." " Dad." "Dad!" "No!" "They can't take you back." "They can't!" "How're you, Judas?" "And then, the Prince leaned down and kissed the sleeping beauty on both her eyes, smack, smack." " And what do you suppose?" " What?" "The sleeping beauty waked up." "Mama!" "Where's Daddy?" "Daddy... couldn't come, darling." "He wanted to, but..." "Oh, sweet dear." "Darling." "It doesn't mean forever." "He'll come yet." "He will, I promise you." "Where's grandpa?" "Grandpa's gone away." "He's gone along, long way away." "Forever?" "Forever." "How long has it been, Master Sam?" "I don't know." "Three, maybe four days, I guess." "Master Sam, can I have a little more of that water?" "I ain't even heard no bugle calls." "Ain't even seen nobody." "No food, no nothing." "I guess everybody just done run off and left us." "Reckon it'll do any good to holler again?" "No, I've hollered till I'm hoarse." "What do you suppose happened?" "I don't know, Buck." "Maybe just as you say, that they they have gone off and left us to die, maybe." "Tell the captain of that ship I've got to have those supplies." "Tell him I got 1,000 hospital cases here and only one doctor." "Tell the Commandant again, I'm sorry, but I refuse to put in." "Tell him he's a filthy yellow coward, with my compliments." "Tell him I've waited five days for him to be a man and deliver me my medicines." "And if I don't see some action out there inside of five minutes," "I'm gonna turn a cannon on his tub and blow it to kingdom come, government ship or no government ship!" "That'll make you sleep a little." "You're gonna be all right, son." "Morning, Clark." "Are you all right, sir?" "Just tired." "Very tired." "It's a hard job, son." "Always a hard job when you don't know what to do and got no one to do it with you." "If it hadn't been for you and a couple of others who've stuck by me..." "I don't wanna catch it myself, sir." "Hmm." "That's something I can't promise you, because I don't know." "I don't know what causes yellow fever, I don't know how to cure it." "I don't know how it spreads, where it comes from or where it goes." "I'm going to see the Commandant." "White doctor, he got it." " Hey, soldier." " Yes, sir." "My compliments..." "My compliments to the Commandant and tell him..." " Yes, sir." " I can't come." "Tell him I've got to go to my quarters." "White boss sick." "He's got it, too." "Soldier..." "Soldier..." "Come here." "Help me!" " Come here, you fools." " No, sir, white boss." "No, sir." "You swine, I tell you, you've got to help me up." "Doctor." "Doctor." "Doctor." " Well?" " He says he can't do it, sir." " Says he's scared." " Scared?" "If ever I get my hands on that muck's throat!" "Imagine the hound!" "Loading my supplies on rafts and just shoving 'em toward the shore." "Look at 'em." "Scared to land 'em, scared to touch 'em, scared to take 'em when they're sick!" "Holy mother, how long do they expect to live?" "Forever?" "Beg your pardon, sir." "If the Commandant pleases, there's a doctor among the prisoners." "Doctor Mudd." "Mudd." "Doctor Mudd?" "Come on." "Open up." "Doctor, I'm here on a curious mission." "I want your help." " My help?" " I need it." "Desperately." "Doctor, this island is a pest hole." "It's steaming with yellow fever." "The worst epidemic we've had in years." "I've got 3,000 men here, soldiers and prisoners." "And those that aren't dead or dying are crazy with terror." "And we're all trapped here together." "What's all this to me?" "That's what you must decide for yourself, sir." "And the good Doctor MacIntyre?" "The good Doctor MacIntyre is down, bad." "You're quite right." "You couldn't possibly be in a better position to tell me and my men to go straight to the devil." "No one would understand it better than I would." "In your place, I'd do it myself." "But in spite of that, in spite of the fact that I can promise you no reward, that I can offer you nothing but exposure to death," "I want your help." "Once before, I was a doctor." "I'm still a doctor." "Thank you, Doctor Mudd." "Buck." "Buck." "We're going up in the open." "Will you give me a hand, sir, please." "That was the last straw when they heard about Macintyre's dying." "They all quit." "They're in the mess hall now." "Barricaded, guards and all." "We got to do something, sir." "Those patients are alone." "Deserted." "Have I any authority, sir?" "You give the orders, I'll take the responsibility." "All right sir, thank you." "You wait here." "You, come with me." " Aren't you afraid?" " Doctor, I'm scared to death!" "Yes, so am I." " Steady!" " Don't come no closer, white man." "Stay where you is." "Us men ain't gonna come out there for nobody." "I'm not gonna ask you to come out." "But you're gonna listen to me." "I'm just gonna tell you what you're gonna get." "You're gonna get hanged, all of you." "You're soldiers and you mutinied." "You deserted your posts, you shot at your officers." "Can't get away with it." "Here's what they're gonna do to you." "They're gonna take you before a judge." "Gonna take out in a courtyard and build a scaffold." "And you're gonna have to build your own scaffold." "And when you get that done, you're gonna do some digging." "You're gonna dig your own graves." "And then the law is gonna hang you." "They're gonna put a rope around your necks and choke you, choke you till your eyeballs pop out and your tongue swells up." "You ought not talk like that." "That ain't no Yankee talking just to hear himself talk, that's a Southern man and he mean it." "Yes, sir." "But for those of you that wanna be saved, I've got a proposition." "Us don't wanna go near them yellow fever men." " Do you want to hear it or not?" " Yes." "There's nobody going near those yellow fever men but this orderly and me." "But I need help outside." "I need workers, coloured boys, water boys." "Boys willing to do what I say." "Any of you boys willing to do that, I promise to save from hanging." "He sound like a nice man." "I don't wanna go near them yellow fever boys." "The white man say you don't have to." "And besides, I'd rather be beside them yellow fever boys than hanging with my eyeballs popped out." " Coming out!" " All right." "Now, I'm gonna give all of you just one minute to make up your mind." "That's it." "Come on, all of you." "Hurry up." "Hurry up and don't forget, I'll keep my promise to every one of you." "Coming out!" "Come on, all of you." "Begin tearing out those windows." "I want to get some air in this hospital." "Double time now." "Come over here, you fellas." "Get ready to soak these blankets." "I want to wrap those men up till I wash that fever out." "Hurry up!" " You and I are going in." " Think this will do any good?" "Oh, I don't know, but it'll make them comfortable." "Here, you men, put those blankets over your faces." "They're gonna smash these windows and get some air in this hospital." "All right, tear 'em out!" "How're you, soldier?" "Get away!" "Judas!" "What about that wind, sir?" "It looks like a hurricane..." "Let it blow, let it rain." "It's cooling, isn't it?" "It'll help to blow these blasted mosquitoes away." "We'll take them in their order." "This one first." "How are you feeling, Buck?" "I'm feeling good, Master Sam, since you chased them mosquitoes away." "Sure seems a long way from Maryland." "Long time." "Long ago." "I wonder if Rosabelle done and forgotten me." "Forget you after after 12 children?" "That's impossible." "That Rosabelle sure is one real woman, ain't she, Master Sam?" "Ssh!" "Well, how's it look today?" "All right, I guess." "How long do you think these supplies are gonna last?" "Where's the medicine coming from two days from now?" "Out of the air!" "And how long do you think I'm gonna last?" "Forever?" "You've got to get some sleep." "You've had five days of this." "You're exhausted." "Right out yonder, not a mile offshore, there's a ship full of supplies and half a dozen doctors." "Not country doctors brought up on bellyaches, but real city doctors." "And the whole United States government can't make that boat come help us!" " Here, let me put you to bed..." " No!" "I'm sorry." "I'll go to bed, because... because I'm tired." "Get up." " Get up and come with me!" " What is it, sir?" "Come with me, I need your help." "Doctor, you're sick." "Of course I'm sick." "I got yellow jack." "I'm the doctor, but I got yellow jack." "Didn't you know that doctors could get yellow..." "I'm the only doctor in the world that's got 1,000 cases got 1,000 cases and ain't got no medicine." " Won't you tell me where we're going?" " Here." "Get up there." "Open that door." "Kick it open." " You the gun crew?" " Yes, sir." "Get up!" "Man your gun." "Hurry up!" "Pull down that ladder." "Get the signal lamp." "Hurry up!" "Get up." " What's he say now?" " He says it's impossible, sir." "It's too dangerous in the storm." "Tell him again I say, "put in"." "Tell him if he doesn't, I'm gonna fire." "Excuse me, sir, but that's a government ship." "Tell them again I say, "put in"." "Get ready to drop one near." " He says he won't, sir." " All right, fire." " What's he doing now?" " They're putting out to sea, sir." "All right, hit him." " You can't do that, doctor." " You fool." "I gotta get that medicine." "I gotta get those doctors." "I'm sick, too." "I got yellow jack like everybody else here, but I'm a doctor." "I gotta look out for things." "Come on, give it to 'em, I tell you." "Fire!" " But, captain, us can't fire at the flag." " Fire that gun, Negro!" "Fire!" "It hit the mast." "Get ready to hit him again." "Again!" "He's turning." "He's heading in." "He's heading in, doctor." "He's heading in!" "How's everything this morning?" "Looks like I'm going to live." "Doctor, this is something I've prepared to send to Washington, by special messenger, today." "Of course, I'm in no position to speak for our government." "Yours and mine." "Because I do love the flag I serve and because I'm jealous of its honour..." "I'd..." "I'd like to read this letter to you." "It's to the President of the United States." "As Commandant of the military prison at Fort Jefferson, Florida," "I can testify that the final checking of the recent yellow fever epidemic was the direct result of extraordinary and unselfish courage, bravery and skill, on the part of Doctor Samuel A. Mudd." "On behalf of the personnel of the post, including officers, enlisted men, civilians and prisoners," "I take this means of urging executive clemency for Doctor Mudd, as a reward for heroism far above and beyond the demands of duty." "I wrote that this morning." "And every man on this island will be glad to sign it, I promise you." "I'd like to be the first." " With your permission, Major?" " With Doctor Mudd's permission." "Thank you, Sergeant." "Come here, darling." "Darling, Daddy's coming home." "And when he comes, he may not look like he did when you last saw him." "But don't say so." "Don't look at him like that, dear." "His face may be old and sad and tired." "And he may be thin and his hair..." "But don't notice it dear." "Just... just kiss him." "Kiss his cheeks and his eyes and his arms and his wrists." " Whoa." " Much obliged, sir." "Thank you, Master Sam." "Giddy up." "Rosabelle!"