Pharaoh's Army (1995)

Robert P. Sampson Jr.: Narrator

Quotes 

• Chicago : [returning]  Captain, there was a barn burnt down. Some old man and his wife were killed.

  Captain John Hull Abston : Where?

  Chicago : There.

  [pointing] 

  Rodie : No more than five miles up the creek.

  Captain John Hull Abston : [to Sarah]  You know who's place it is?

  Sarah Anders : Yankees.

  Rodie : Ma'am they weren't Yankees. Just some old farmer and his wife.

  Sarah Anders : They sent two boys into the Union Army.

  [splits hatefully and goes into house] 

  Rodie : [splits back]  They were just farmers...

  Narrator : Like I said, the war was rough through here.

• Narrator : The Yankees could steal what we had, but not what we hadn't got yet. So I was determined to put in next year's corn crop.

• [last lines] 

  Narrator : The Captain asked us to do the decent thing. I don't guess the Civil War was about bein' decent. We dug up the big red head and floated him down Meshack Creek. Ma said he come up that creek to cause trouble, and we sent him back down where he come from.

  Narrator : We drug the skinny Yankee up a hill to a sink hole where a big sycamore tree had fallen over and turned up its roots. We throwed the skinny Yankee in the sink hole and throwed some dirt on him. And I don't guess ma hated the skinny Yankee as much as the big red head. Pap never made it back. That war was a widow maker.

  Narrator : Ma told me to never never tell anyone what we had done. And I don't think I ever did, except maybe once, or maybe twice.