"The true story of an epic friendship."
The almost entirely true story of Abraham Lincoln and his self-appointed bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon - a banjo-playing Southerner who foiled repeated attempts on the President's life, and kept him functioning during the darkest hours of the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln

Ward Hill Lamon

Mary Todd Lincoln

William H. Seward

Senator Charles Sumner

Mrs. Elizabeth Keckly

Salmon P. Chase

Edwin Stanton

Montgomery Blair

Billy Herndon

Ned Baker

Col. Elmer Ellsworth

Willie Lincoln

Tad Lincoln

Judge David Davis

Nathaniel Rulough

Bartender

Major Eckert

Circuit Lawyer