Stanley Ridges: Maj. Romulus Taipe
Quotes
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Lt. General Winfield Scott : This Custer of yours is insubordinate alright-thank God for it. He's not marching on Round Top. He's attacking Stuart at Hanover!
Maj. Romulus Taipe : He's attacking! He's attacking a whole Corps! Rather than hold his ground the mad fool's attacking!
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Lt. General Winfield Scott : If he turns us, Washington and Baltimore will fall.
[Reads dispatch and recoils in horror]
Lt. General Winfield Scott : Stuart! Stuart's Corps at Hanover? It's a mistake. Get verification at once!
Cpl. Smith : It has been verified, sir.
Lt. General Winfield Scott : He's on our rear. We're trapped. All that stands between us and total disaster is the Michigan brigade, a handful of volunteers.
Maj. Romulus Taipe : But the Michigan Brigade's been ordered to Round Top! It's on it's way now!
Lt. General Winfield Scott : Then stop it Taipe, stop it! Tell them to hold it's ground to the last man.
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[Custer barely misses being dismissed from West Point for fighting]
Gen. Phil Sheridan : You know, Taipe, I'm glad it turned out this way. There's something about that fellow I like.
Maj. Romulus Taipe : Yeah? Well I don't know what it is. If you ask me, he'll make the worst record of any cadet at West Point since Ulysses S. Grant.
