Samuel L. Jackson as Richard Greener

Sam Waterston as Daniel Chamberlain

Mason Adams as Henry D. Hyde

Val Avery as Gen. Sherman

Eddie Bracken as Maj. Charles T. Alexander

Gene Canfield as McIntosh

Robert Clohessy as Dan Broyles

Al Freeman Jr. as Old Johnson Whittaker

George Martin as President Rutherford B. Hayes

Ken Garito as Cadet Lewis Ostheim

Greg Germann as Vernon Bailey

John Glover as Maj. Asa Bird Gardiner

Brad Greenquist as Dr. Beard

Peter Maloney as Capt. William Smith Michie

Scott Paetty as Cadet George Burnett

Josef Sommer as Col. Morrow

Seth Gilliam as Cadet Johnson C. Whittaker

Anthony Rapp as Cadet Frederick G. Hodgson

Jim Grimshaw as Grimes

James Bigwood as Albert S. Southworth