Major Kendall: I don't understand a man like Miles giving up that easily.
Col. John Marlowe: Maybe losing that arm took some of the fight out of him.
Major Kendall: No... the man I knew could lose both arms and still try to kick you to death.
Col. John Marlowe: Kirby, you tangle with me, I'll have your hide.
Sgt. Maj. Kirby: You're welcome to that too sir, if it's in the line of duty.
Major Kendall: Now come off it Colonel, even you were born.
Union Soldier: They're just kids from a military school.
Soldier: Yeah, but they keep comin'.
Miss Hannah Hunter: Major Gray, an actor... and Colonel Secord almost a senator... but Colonel Marlowe, you must be a professional soldier.
Col. John Marlowe: No, prior to this current insanity I was a railroad engineer.
Jackie Jo: Hey there - we're Confederates, but we ain't hostile - honest.
Major Kendall: How old are you?
Soldier: Thirty-two, sir.
Major Kendall: Stand with that group over there.
