- Johnny Yuma: You with us or against us?
- Charles Ashbaugh: Against you, summer soldier.
- Jefferson Davis: Charles! Charles! You don't know what you're doing.
- Charles Ashbaugh: Don't I, President Davis! Traitors! That's what you both are! Bootlicking Traitors! Crawling to the Yankees and dishonour and disgrace! Well, right here's where I pay back the one that disgraced us! Davis, you gonna crawl in the same place that Lincoln did!
- Varina Davis: In defeat, friends frequently become enemies. My husband has been in prison almost two years. There are those Southeners, as well as Northeners, who'd like him to be killed. Northeners, because he led the Succession, Southeners, because they think he surrendered too quickly. I've got to be certain that you're not one of them.
- Charles Ashbaugh: You're not as scrawny as you were in the Army. You've changed some, Yuma.
- Johnny Yuma: I hope you have too.
- Charles Ashbaugh: I'm not going to let anything go wrong. Jefferson Davis lost the war for us, our families, our way of life. I'm gonna pay him back for that, the same way that Booth paid Lincoln.
- Gunman: I still say it'll be easier for us if we wait 'til he gets to Richmond.
- Charles Ashbaugh: No, he made peace with the Yankees. Let him die while he's in their charge.
- Gunman: Suit yourself. Just as long as we get paid for it.
- Varina Davis: Jefferson's carried the burden for all of us these past few months. He's been punished for what he had to do. Oh please, Mr Yuma, help me. Help him.
- Johnny Yuma: We'll be at the ship by tomorrow night.
- Jefferson Davis: It's not the voyage, I mean. The vessel's that's waiting for me is a ghostly vessel and it's full with fallen comrades. But before that, I do want to see Varina again.
- Charles Ashbaugh: I lost the chance to kill a Yankee general there. I lost it because of Johnny Yuma. He knocked into my hand just as I squeezed the trigger. And the Yankee soldiers opened fire. And they got me, right here.
- [He indicates his covered left ear]
- Charles Ashbaugh: I want you to kill Davis, and that turncoat Yuma right along with him. You kill them both.
- Jefferson Davis: I've been in your Vermont, Mr Gaines. The hills, green velvet in the Spring, gold in the Fall, tucked closely one behind the other, like children in school, as far as the eye can see. And the trees, magnificent trees.
- Private Gaines: You sure have been to Vermont, Mr Davis.
- Jefferson Davis: And I assume your family, everyone you love, lives there. Suppose Vermont decided to leave the Union? What would you do? Which of the two would you leave?
- Private Gaines: Well, I. You had some right hard choosing to do, Sir.
- Jefferson Davis: Coffee, black and strong.
- Sergeant Mundale: Liquid backbone.
- Jefferson Davis: I'd almost forgotten that expression, Sergeant.
- Private Gaines: You done some soldiering, Mr Davis?
- Jefferson Davis: Why, yes...
- Johnny Yuma: Graduated Westpoint 1828.