LINCOLN
Written by
Tony Kushner
Based in Part on
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By Doris Kearns Goodwin
Final Shooting Script
December 20, 2011EXT. BATTLEFIELD, JENKINS' FERRY, ARKANSAS - DAY
Heavy grey skies hang over a flooded field, the water two
feet deep. Cannons and carts, half-submerged and tilted,
their wheels trapped in the mud below the surface, are still
yoked to dead and dying horses and oxen.A terrible battle is taking place; two infantry companies,
Negro Union soldiers and white Confederate soldiers, knee-
deep in the water, staggering because of the mud beneath,
fight each other hand-to-hand, with rifles, bayonets,
pistols, knives and fists. There's no discipline or strategy,
nothing depersonalized: it's mayhem and each side intensely
hates the other. Both have resolved to take no prisoners.HAROLD GREEN (V.O.)