A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
Genres:
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)
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