>> get rid of all this junk and don't take nothing with you but food and tobacco. >> i'd like to get my hands on a musket. >> what for? >> the rebels killed my brother last summer at gettysburg. >> we've been ordered to hold this hill! >> [ groaning ] >> get me to a hospital! >> frank wilkeson was the teenaged son of journalist samuel wilkeson and the younger brother of bayard wilkeson, who was killed at gettysburg. he was filled with a sort of sense of adventure and patriotism, but, almost from the get-go, he has his rose-colored glasses shattered. >> if grant's the scrapper they say he is, we'll be slingin' canister at the rebs before you know. until then, you remember what i told you about food. you need all you can get. >> pack it up! time to go!