"Tommy Lee Jones - Radical Republican Congressional leader Thaddeus Stevens"

"Hal Holbrook - Francis Preston Blair"

"Lee Pace - Democratic Congressman Fernando Wood"

"Peter McRobbie - Democratic Congressman George H. Pendleton"

"I heard tell once of a Jeff City lawyer who had a parrot that'd wake him each morning crying out, "Today is the day t…"

"[to Cabinet members] As the preacher said; "I could write shorter sermons, but once I start I get too lazy to stop.""

"Bruce McGill - Secretary of War Edwin Stanton"

"Dakin Matthews- Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher"

"Jared Harris - Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant"

"David Strathairn - Secretary of State William H. Seward"