John Wayne as Col John Marlowe

William Holden as Major 'Hank' Kendall

Constance Towers as Miss Hannah Hunter

Judson Pratt as Sgt Major Kirby

Hoot Gibson as Sgt. Brown

Ken Curtis as Cpl. Wilkie

Willis Bouchey as Col. Phil Secord

Bing Russell as Dunker, Yankee Soldier Amputee

O.Z. Whitehead as Otis 'Hoppy' Hopkins

Hank Worden as Deacon Clump

Chuck Hayward as Union Captain

Denver Pyle as Jackie Jo

Strother Martin as Virgil

Basil Ruysdael as The Reverend (Jefferson Military Academy)

Carleton Young as Col. Jonathan Miles, CSA

William Leslie as Gray

William Henry as Captain

Walter Reed as Union Officer

Anna Lee as Mrs. Buford

William Forrest as Gen. Steve Hurlburt

Ron Hagerthy as Bugler

Russell Simpson as Henry Goodbody

Althea Gibson as Lukey

Gertrude Astor as Townswoman (uncredited)

Bill Borzage as Townsman (uncredited)

Danny Borzage as Old Soldier in Line (uncredited)

John Ford as Ned (uncredited)

Jack Pennick as Mitch (uncredited)

Jan Stine as Hoskins - Dying Soldier (uncredited)

Sam Harris as Major (uncredited)

David Ahdar as Soldier (uncredited)

Sarge Allen as Union Officer (uncredited)

Gordon Carveth as Townsman (uncredited)

Jack R. Clinton as Trooper (uncredited)

Otis Courville as Soldier (uncredited)

Jane Crowley as Townswoman (uncredited)

Richard H. Cutting as Gen. William T. Sherman (uncredited)

Duke Fishman as Prisoner at Newton (uncredited)

Donald Foster as Dr. Marvin (uncredited)

John George as Townsman (uncredited)

Helen Gereghty as Townswoman (uncredited)

Helen Gibson as Townswoman (uncredited)

Fred Graham as Union Soldier (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes as Passenger to Newton Station (uncredited)

Michael Jeffers as Prisoner at Newton (uncredited)

Stan Jones as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (uncredited)

Fred Kennedy as Soldier (uncredited)

Roy Kennedy as Wrangler (uncredited)

Philip Kieffer as Officer (uncredited)

Robert Lewis as Townsman (uncredited)

Cliff Lyons as Union Sergeant (uncredited)

Wilbur Mack as Townsman (uncredited)

Jack Pennick as Sgt. Maj. 'Mitch' Mitchell (uncredited)

Robert Perry as Drummer Boy (uncredited)

Charles Seel as Newton Station Bartender (uncredited)

George Sowards as Wagon Driver (uncredited)

Mike Steen as Unknown (uncredited)

William Wellman Jr. as Bugler (uncredited)