Then I spent the rest of my afternoon with RIDE WITH THE DEVIL. It's a very good film dealing the the Missouri-Kansas skermishes during the Civil War. A cast of simply brilliant young actors in these roles: Toby Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Simon Baker, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Jeffrey Wright, Mark Ruffalo, Jim Caviezel. And there are some veterans in the cast like Tom Wilkinson and Margo Martindale, too, but the young guys (and Jewel as the love interest) are the real focuses of the attention.
I don't ever remember a Civil War film dealing with this aspect of the war: the Bushwhackers versus the Jayhawkers, but it certainly held my attention for 2 1/2 hours. This is the director's cut; all of the footage Lee cut for the theatrical release was put back in which is why it runs longer than the original release version.