Matthew Broderick

(Col. Robert Gould Shaw)

Denzel Washington

(Pvt. Trip)

Morgan Freeman

(Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins)

Cary Elwes

(Maj. Cabot Forbes)

Jihmi Kennedy

(Pvt. Jupiter Sharts)

Andre Braugher

(Cpl. Thomas Searles)

John Finn

(Sgt. Maj. Mulcahy)

Alan North

(Gov. John Albion Andrew)

Bob Gunton

(Gen. Harker)

Cliff De Young

(Col. James M. Montgomery)

Christian Baskous

(Edward L. Pierce)

Jay O. Sanders

(Gen. George Crockett Strong)

Richard Riehle

(Kendric, quatermaster)

Mark A. Levy

(Bigoted soldier)

Jane Alexander

(Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw (uncredited))

Raymond St. Jacques

(Frederick Douglass (uncredited))