Stephen Lang as Lt. Gen. Thomas Stonewall Jackson

Jeff Daniels as Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Robert Duvall as Gen. Robert E. Lee

Kevin Conway as Sgt. Buster Kilrain

C. Thomas Howell as Sgt. Thomas Chamberlain

Jeremy London as Capt. Alexander 'Sandie' Pendleton

Matt Letscher as Col. Adelbert Ames

Brian Mallon as Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

Bo Brinkman as Maj. Walter Taylor

Bruce Boxleitner as Lt. Gen. James Longstreet

William Sanderson as Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill

Billy Campbell as Maj. Gen. George Pickett

Ryan Cutrona as Brig. Gen. Marsena Patrick

Mia Dillon as Jane Beale

Justin Dray as George Jenkins

Robert Easton as John Janney

Frankie Faison as Jim Lewis

Miles Fisher as John Beale

John Castle as Old Penn

Conn Horgan as Pvt. Dooley

Barry McEvoy as Marion Sibert

Robert Byrd as Confederate General

Karen Goberman as Lucy Beale

Joseph Fuqua as Col. J. E. B. Stuart

Patrick Gorman as Gen. John Bell Hood

Lydia Jordan as Jane Corbin

Ed Markey as Irish Brigade Officer

Ted Turner as Col. Tazewell Patton

Thomas B. Mason as Old Man in Fredericksburg (as Tom Boyd Mason)

Gary Gustin as Confederate Soldier

William Morgan Sheppard as Gen. Isaac Trimble

Buck Taylor as Gen. Maxcy Gregg

Herb Mitchell as Union Officer (uncredited)

Andrew Prine as Brig. Gen. Richard B. Garnett (uncredited)

Michael Sorvino as Federal Soldier

Mira Sorvino as Fanny Chamberlain