- [first lines]
- [watching a train steaming up a grade]
- Sam Chapman: The good old Baltimore and Ohio - war and peace, she's right on time.
- Maj. John Singleton Mosby: That's right, Sam, but I'll bet a Yankee dollar she loses a few minutes out of the next ten.
- [glancing at Mosby's men arrayed along the track]
- Sam Chapman: I wouldn't be surprised.
- General Staughton: So he sent me his regards, did he? I tell you, Captain, somebody's got to stop this Mosby. He seems to be everywhere all at once.
- Capt. Alan Morrow: They don't call him The Gray Ghost for nothing, sir.
- General Staughton: Then it's up to you people in Intelligence to stop that Ghost.
- General Staughton: Captain Morrow, you are a bird-brained, love-sick idiot.
- Capt. Alan Morrow: I beg your pardon, sir?
- General Staughton: I said you were a bird-brained, love-sick idiot!
- Capt. Alan Morrow: Is that why you sent for me, sir?
- General Staughton: You talked me into clearing that Forde girl through our lines.
- Capt. Alan Morrow: Sonia? What's happened? Did they catch her?
- General Staughton: No, but she caught you with the hook that was baited by Eve to catch Adam!
- [historic quotes]
- General Staughton: Who are you?
- Maj. John Singleton Mosby: Ever hear of John Mosby?
- General Staughton: You mean you captured him!
- Maj. John Singleton Mosby: No - but he's captured you!
- Lieutenant: It's a dispatch directly from Abraham Lincoln, gentlemen.
- General Staughton: All right, read it.
- Lieutenant: [historic quote] It's signed "A. Lincoln, President" and it reads, "I'm sorry. I can always make brigadier generals, but I cannot replace the horses."
- Capt. Alan Morrow: So you're Mosby, the Gray Ghost, huh?
- Maj. John Singleton Mosby: That's what they say.
- Capt. Alan Morrow: Well, you're one ghost who won't haunt this country again - at least not before you're hanged.
- Maj. John Singleton Mosby: Oh, so you Yankees hang prisoners of war, huh? Well, that figures.
- Capt. Alan Morrow: You and your men have no claim to being soldiers! You're guerillas, outlaws and bandits. You're undisciplined rabble!
- Maj. John Singleton Mosby: When a man's country is fighting for its life, Yankee, he fights with all he's got. Maybe they didn't teach you that at West Point.
- General Staughton: I'll have you hanged by the heels for this. Guard!
- Maj. John Singleton Mosby: You Yankees sure do a lot of hangin' talk.