The almost entirely true story of Abraham Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.
as Abraham Lincoln
as Ward Hill Lamon
as Mary Todd Lincoln
as William H. Seward
as Senator Charles Sumner
as Mrs. Elizabeth Keckly
as Salmon P. Chase
as Edwin Stanton
as Montgomery Blair
as Billy Herndon
as Ned Baker
as Col. Elmer Ellsworth
as Willie Lincoln
as Tad Lincoln
as Judge David Davis
as Nathaniel Rulough
as Bartender
as Major Eckert