- Lt. Duncan McIvor: I'm headed for Fort Chacon. Do you know how long it will take to get there?
- Duke Shannon: Exactly four days, two and a half hours, give or take a few minutes for Indian fights.
- Garrett: I shall presume to consider it a tribute to my integrity, Lieutenant Carter, that you didn't count the money.
- 2nd Lt. Brad Carter: What's the point? You could hold out on me, I couldn't stop you.
- Duke Shannon: Bill, right straight ahead.
- Bill Hawks: Company?
- Duke Shannon: Some of our feathered friends, I think. Saw some movement in that copse of trees.
- Bill Hawks: There's no close cover. Horses are too tired to outrun them.
- Duke Shannon: Let's move on up the hill as far as we can, give us some working room anyway.
- Lt. Duncan McIvor: Comes from Pope's Essay on Man. Low the poor Indian whose untutored mind steals the fat cow nor leaves the horse behind
- [explaining why he calls the Indian Mr Low]
- Duke Shannon: When they
- [the Indians]
- Duke Shannon: come out, you take the even numbers, I'll take the odd.
- Garrett: Besides, Sir, the purchases have already been made. It takes a dishonourable man to back out of a deal once it's been consumated.
- Duke Shannon: And I bet there's not much that you don't know about dishonourable men.
- Lt. Duncan McIvor: Look at their eyes.
- Duke Shannon: You're right, Mac. No man's gonna die face up to the sun with his eyes open.
- Lt. Duncan McIvor: Lips are dry and burnt like the rest of them but they're not blistered. When you're thirsty when there's a hot sun like this, you lick your lips and it makes blisters.
- Duke Shannon: But you gotta be alive to do that.
- Bill Hawks: These men were dead before they were staked out.
- Charlie Wooster: They was?
- Lt. Duncan McIvor: Staking out is for torturing live captives. This wasn't done by Indians.
- Duke Shannon: Somebody sure wanted them to look like that.
- Sgt. Jake Orly: It's not going to be easy, Sir. I'm the only one who wasn't sent here as a punishment. Aside from you, that is.
- Lt. Duncan McIvor: You still have that distinction.
- Sgt. Jake Orly: Oh, well, they're angry men. But they're the best fighting men in the Army if they like their Commander. I've seen them break many a shavetail. They have their ways.
- Duke Shannon: Mac, Carter is not going to confess, he's not going to do one thing to keep you out of Levonworth.
- Lucinda Carter: He'd be in disgrace, wouldn't he? And very little he said would mean very much, would it? Honey, all the witnesses are gone and we're in the clear. Except for your friend, Duncan McIvor. All we have to do is put him in his proper place and we're back in business again.
- 2nd Lt. Brad Carter: I wouldn't do it.
- Lucinda Carter: Brad, have you forgotten how much you owe me?
- Col. Lipton: Well, my boy, I'm sure you share my contempt for McIvor's offence, as well as my interest in seeing an influence as he represents departing my Company.
- Lucinda Carter: You have to consider, he owed me a lot, Colonel Lipton. All you Yankees do if you're honest about it. He was trying to make up for what General Sherman did to my family.
- Lt. Duncan McIvor: Jake? Major Jake Orly?
- Sgt. Jake Orly: Not any more, Sir.
- 2nd Lt. Brad Carter: He's the man you're thinking about.
- Lt. Duncan McIvor: Couldn't they do any better than First Sergeant for the man whose tactices we study.
- Sgt. Jake Orly: I surrendered my federal commission to follow Alabama out of the Union. Can't say they're not wrong in giving it back to me right now.
- Lt. Duncan McIvor: But you're different.
- Sgt. Jake Orly: No different to any other Confederate. Except Army's all I know. I'll settle for stripes until the Army change their Policy.
- Lt. Duncan McIvor: If you look at it that way, there's no reason why I shouldn't. I'm privileged to have you under my command, Sergeant.