
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

as Circuit Lawyer