David McCullough

as Narrator (voice)

Sam Waterston

as Abraham Lincoln (voice)

Julie Harris

as Mary Chestnut (voice)

Jason Robards

as Ulysses S. Grant (voice)

Morgan Freeman

as Frederick Douglass / John Boston (voice)

Paul Roebling

as Joshua Chamberlain (voice)

Garrison Keillor

as Walt Whitman (voice)

George Black

as Robert E. Lee (voice)

Arthur Miller

as William Tecumseh Sherman (voice)

Christopher Murney

as Elisha Hunt Rhodes (voice)