Cast
- Carroll Baker as Eve Prescott Rawlings
- Lee J. Cobb as Marshal Lou Ramsey
- Henry Fonda as Jethro Stuart
- Carolyn Jones as Julie Rawlings
- Karl Malden as Zebulon Prescott
- Harry Morgan as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
- Gregory Peck as Cleve Van Valen
- George Peppard as Zeb Rawlings
- Robert Preston as Roger Morgan
- Debbie Reynolds as Lilith Prescott
- James Stewart as Linus Rawlings
- Eli Wallach as Charlie Gant
- John Wayne as Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
- Richard Widmark as Mike King
- Brigid Bazlen as Dora Hawkins
- Walter Brennan as Col. Jeb Hawkins
- David Brian as Lilith's attorney
- Andy Devine as Corporal Peterson
- Raymond Massey as President Abraham Lincoln
- Agnes Moorehead as Rebecca Prescott
- Thelma Ritter as Agatha Clegg
- Mickey Shaughnessy as Deputy Stover
- Russ Tamblyn as Confederate deserter
- Spencer Tracy as Narrator
The film marked then sixty-six year old Raymond Massey's last appearance as Abraham Lincoln, a role that he had previously played on stage (Abe Lincoln in Illinois and the stage adaptation of John Brown's Body), on screen (Abe Lincoln in Illinois) and on television (The Day Lincoln Was Shot, and two more productions of Abe Lincoln in Illinois).
Lee Van Cleef, John Larch, Jay C. Flippen, Clinton Sundberg, Carleton Young, Rodolfo Acosta and Harry Dean Stanton play very brief, uncredited roles.
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