The Horse Soldiers (1959)





In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 5099

Books with substantial mentioning of The Horse Soldiers

Fred Landesman
The John Wayne Filmography
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2004

William Darby
John Ford's Westerns, A Thematic Analysis, with a Filmography
Jefferson, NC, 1996

Mark Ricci, Boris Zmijewsky, Steve Zmijewsky
The Complete Films of John Wayne
New York, NY, 1995

Tag Gallagher
John Ford: The Man and His Films
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1986

J.A. Place
The Western Films of John Ford
Secaucus, N.J., 1974

Lawrence J. Quirk
The Films of William Holden
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1973

Books with an entry on The Horse Soldiers

Herb Fagen
The encyclopedia of westerns
New York, 2003

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Alan G. Fetrow
Feature Films, 1950 - 1959, a United States Filmography
Jefferson, NC, 1999

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Horse Soldiers

Scott Allen Nollen with Douglas Brode, Screen Historian or American Myth Maker?, The Civil War According to John Ford, in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017