HF TV shows that had a Confederate soldier or ex-Confederate soldier.

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. I am sure many remember that Clint Eastwood played Rowdy Yates.
Dude! Clint is my Main Man.


I never was sure if Private Hitchcock in “The Rat Patrol” was wearing a Confederate Artillery officer’s kepi. Later I learned it was French.
Sgt. Troy is wearing an Aussie hat with the Australian sunburst badge. (I sold mine for $190.)

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It starred John Payne as Vint Bonner , a wanderer in the post war west . It ran for 2 seasons from 1957 to 1959 . I was very young when this aired , but I remember John Payne in a western .
didn't John Payne live in Salem, Virginia or near Roanoke. It seems I remember this from when I was a wee lad spending time with my grand parents.
 
The Rifleman had a couple of episodes, one with a wounded confederate,, blandon(?) I think was his name, and his shoulder wound was so horrible that Mark McCain ran away in fear/repulse when he saw it,, then Phil Sheridan rode in, and gave an impassioned speech about war and reconciliation to the confederate, then helped him.
Another was when 2 confederates that spent 2 1/2 years in a union prison,, happened upon lucas and recognized he was a union lieutenant in the war, so they took him prisoner and put him into a small cage, intent on keeping him incarcerated for 2 1/2 years as they had been. Fortunately both episodes had happy endings, and Lucas was ok,, allowing the series to continue for a couple more years
 
GunSmoke :smoke: ran longer, Chester/Festus...Miss Kitty


"Now get out of Dodge." :wink:
And who could forget the irascible and grumpy but lovable Doc Adams. His interactions with Festus were always good for a laugh.
And who could forget the irascible and grumpy but lovable Doc Adams. His interactions with Festus were always good for a laugh.
And a trivia tidbit - Doc mentions in one Gunsmoke episode that he was a US Army surgeon during the Civil War. I think it was the Mannon episode with Steve Forrest as a former member of Quantrill's raiders.
 
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Both within the last decade:
1) Mercy Street (PBS) followed the story of a Confederate-aligned family in Virginia. Both grown daughters had Confederate soldier beaux, whose story lines were also tracked.
2) Hell on Wheels. In 1865, the protagonist, Cullen Bohannon, is motivated by the murder of his family by Union soldiers, while he was fighting as a Confederate soldier.
 
Who can name a TV show that used a Confederate soldier or ex-Confederate soldier?

Let me start with the 1961 TV show The Americans. Ben Canfield was a Union solider and his bother Jeff was a Confederate soldier. The show only lasted 17 episodes. The two bothers fought in battles, went on secret missions. Ben was captured and sent to Libby Prison. All in all the show was not great and was not a real success. The Civil War uniforms were inaccurate. Anyone remember this TV show?
Ben Canfield was played by Dwyane Hickman, Dwight (Dobie Gillis)Hickman's brother. Or do I have them backwards?
 
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