North and South

North and South

Virgilia Hazard

Garrison Grady

Justin LaMotte

Elkanah Bent

Madeline Fabray LaMotte

Brett Main

Ashton Main Huntoon

Constance Flynn Hazard

James Huntoon

George Hazard

Charles Main

Billy Hazard

John Brown

Maum Sally (6 episodes, 1985)

Burdetta Halloran

Frederick Douglass

Abraham Lincoln

Sen. Charles Edwards

Patrick Flynn

Clarissa Main

Congressman Sam Greene

Maude Hazard

Madam Conti (6 episodes, 1985)

William Hazard

Nicholas Fabray

Stanley Hazard

Isabel Truscott Hazard

Priam (6 episodes, 1985)

Tillet Main

Cuffey

Corporal Owens (6 episodes, 1985)

Semiramis

Forbes LaMotte

Salem Jones

Slave (3 episodes, 1985)

Benny Haven (2 episodes, 1985)

Young Brett Main

George McClellan

Young Ashton Main

Tom 'Stonewall' Jackson

Nathaniel (2 episodes, 1985)

George Pickett

Smith Dawkins

Cadet Ned Fisk

Jed (2 episodes, 1985)

James Read's great-great-uncle, Sebaldus Hassler, fought and died with the Union Army, falling in battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on May 20, 1863. Read's great-great-grandfather, Sampson T. Groves, served in the First Ohio Volunteer Heavy Artillery until his honorable discharge on July 25, 1865, after which he lived to a ripe old age.

Took more than two years to make and involved -8,700 pieces of wardrobe (lead actresses each wore 28-35 different costumes) -940 scenes -540 page teleplay

Living history groups with the special expertise to recreate the Mexican-American War battle of Churubusco (1847), filmed the battle in a field near Natchez, Mississippi. In mid-May, 1984, fourteen re-enactor units from a dozen states took a week's vacation from their regular jobs to stage what was to be the largest authentic encampment of Mexican War re-enactors ever held. More than 140 strong, they arrived at their own expense, bringing their own (and for the most part hand-made) period-correct uniforms, hand weapons and artillery, caissons, limbers, battery wagons, field ambulances, tenting and camping equipment. The production company provided water, hay, feed and straw for horses, reimbursement for powder, and made donations to each of the participating units.

When Orry breaks up Charles's fight at the tavern, you can see Orry's waking cane bend when he hits one of the fighters on the back.

After Orry throws Ashton out of Mont Royal he goes back to the study to pick up his cane. When he bends down to pick up the cane his tie is undone but is perfectly tied when he stands back up.

In the end of part 6, when George and Orry leave the Hazard mansion during the anti-southern procession: George is wearing a round Union-sympathy mark, but when they arrive to the rail station, the mark is flower-shaped.