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The most daring cavalry raid of the Civil War. sixteen day foray through three hundred miles of Confederate territory.

THE MIRISCH COMPANY

JOHN WAYNE

WILLIAM HOLDEN

THE HORSE SOLDIERS

CONSTANCE TOWERS
and

ALTHEA GIBSON
Written for the screen by

JOHN

LEE

MAHIN AND MARTIN RACKIN

Directed by

JOHN FORD A MAHIN-RACKIN PRODUCTION

Color by DeLuxe

To break ihe siege of Vicksburg, General Grant ordets

Colonel Marlowe on a bold cavalry raid three hundred
miles behind the Confederate lines.

Released thru UNITED ARTISTS

Marlowe's mission

is

to destroy

Newton

Station,

an

small detachment of

federates

who

bravely

important railroad depot and main source of supply

for besieged Vicksburg.

attempt to defend the town

e routed. The supply and

destroyed according to plan.

Riding south towards, Baton Rouge, Mar

attacked by the courageous young cadets of a

But

when he

tries to rejoin

the Union lines his path

blocked at a Rebel held bridge and Marlowe mus

fight his

academy. He

retreats rather than fight them.

way through

the Confederate army.

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LATER, BEYOND THE

WOODS -AT HANNAH

HUNTER'S PLANTATION

HOUSE-FAR OFF THE ROAD...

SHALL WE MAKE OURSELVE5 COMFORTABLE, IN THE ROSE ROOM? AND THEN, OF COURSE, YOU ALL WILL ACCEPT MY INVITATION TO DINNER?

THANK YOU, MISS HUNTER BUT WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO IMPOSE OUR APPETITES ON YOU.' WHAT WE REQUIRE NOW IS A QUIET PLACE WHERE I MAY CONFER WITH MY OFFICERS.'

\ STRAIGHT SOUTH TO NOT GOINS BACK? BUT WHERE, MAR LOWE?/ JOIN THE UNION FORCES HOLDIN' BATON ROUSE/ THE WAY THE REBS

WOULD LEAST EXPECT US TO ffiO.'

SORRY, MISS

HUNTER

BUT YOU ARE

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UNDER ARREST."

MISS HUNTER, AS ACLEVER AND LOyAL CWUGHTER OF THE CONFEDERACY, WITH FULL INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PLANS, YOU'RE A PRETTY DANGEROUS PERSON.' AND SO IS LUKEY/ I-

LATER-AS THE COLUMN STRIKES SOUTH FORCED MARCH AT NIGHT...

THE TROOPERS INTHE5QUARE MOVE FAST LEADING HORSES DOWN ALLEYS, BEHIND THE BUILDINGS...

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I.APEN WITH MEDICAL PACKS, 5URGEON

MAJOR

CURTIS

BUR5TS INTO THE HOTEL LOBBY...

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STAUNCH THIS MAN'S SIDE, HOPPV.' HERE'S PR. MARVIN, WHO WILL WORK WITH YOU.' X FOUND OUTSIDE/

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fight bitter.

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town square

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But the blue uniforms outnumber the

little bv little

gray,

they gain control.

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WlTHIH THE TWO HOUR LIMIT, THE UNION TROOPERS WORK FURIOUSLY TEARING UP THE RAILS OF THE TRACK- BENDING THEM, REP-HOT, TO PREVENT THEIR BEING USED AGAIN/ OTHER DEOF EXPLOSIVES, PESTROY TELEGRAPH LINES, PREPARE TO FIRE FREIGHT CARS AND WAREHOUSES. ..THE GRIM WASTE OF WAR/

I DON'T THINK THE REBS WILL BOTHER YOUR CONVOY OF WOUNDED, LIEUTENANT... BUT IF THEY QUESTION YOU, TELL THEM OUR MAIN COLUMN IS HEADEP FOR VICKSBURG/ GOOD LUCK AMP MAKE IT HOME/

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UNION COLUMN MOVES OUT... VES THAT S WHAT we CAME FOR.' WHAT WE MAY > R THE LOCOMOTIVES AND THE WAREHOUSES ) EL1!tr5? m'A^&St WILL BLOW ANY MINUTE NOW, COLONEL/i
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Half an hour later shrapnel shells besin bursting over the

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The two flanking detachments make the crossing with little or no resistance as shrapnel bursts tell them...

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from

behind,

. WHILE WOODWARDS TROOPERS SCATTER THE GRAY RIFLEMEN IN THE BRUSH/ THE BRIDGE IS WON AT A COST.

And afterwards..

THOUGHT YOU

WOULD, CURTIS/
THERE'LL BE NO MORE FIGHTING

BETWEEN HERE AND BATON ROUGE/

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YOU'LL BE GOOD-ByE, NOW/ AND, HANNAH WELCOME HUNTER, 1 WONT BE CAUSING YOU ANY MORE GRIEF, THANK AT GREEN GOD/ PERHAPS IF-I MEAN, 8RIAR, COLONEL MARLOWE.' AFTER THI5 DREADFUL WAR
IS OVER...

VERY WELCOME,
INDEED.'

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THE CONFEDERATE FOXHOLE

During the
Mississippi

Civil

War, Rebel troops

in Louisiana
It

and
in

made

frequent use of the gabion.

was a
a
with shot

type of man-sized basket that could be woven

hurry from brush or tree branches.
dirt
it

When

filled

offered formidable protection from

of

enemy
M's

and shrapnel; a forerunner

foxhole.

World War

famous

structed for

Hundreds of these gabions were specially con"The Horse Soldiers". After filming was completed, several museums in Louisiana and Mississippi requested them, and they may now be seen
on permanent display.

THE
SPIRIT
One of the mosi dramatic scenes in "The Horse Soldiers" takes place when the courageous young cadets of Jefferson Military College at Natchez, march out to fight Marlowe's Yankee troopers. Most of these young men are descendants of former Confederate
soldiers.

OF THE

fair indication of their spirited altitude

was shown when

SOUTH

they were instructed to charge the'Union cavalry column. They show of enthusiasm which would have warmed the cockles
put on a
of their ancestors' hearts.

The quality of

their rebel yell

was

so

convincing that

it spooked the cavalrymen's horses into a gallop. Even then, the gray-clod cadets were so wound up that they

managed

to follow close

on the heels

of the fleeing

Union horses.