Dave is impressed by Britt's sure way with the men, trespassers and Indians, and promotes him to his assistant. Britt works diligently as the head of a railroad gang and reports to paymaster Judith Chandler, who knows his identity and is cool to him because her husband was killed in a raid Britt led during the war. Meanwhile, casino owner Cole Sanders approaches Tom, Clint and Terry, promising them work. Holliday's assistant, Dave Baxter, recognizes Britt as a former member of a Confederate guerrilla band, but, despite having been with the Union forces, Dave is pleased to hire Britt under an assumed name. Holliday, swears men in for jobs, Britt accepts, but his brothers refuse to take the oath of loyalty to the Union. Later, when the railroad representative, Col. Knowing they stand no chance for a fair trial, the Canfields flee, jumping a westbound train, filled with men seeking work on the new Santa Fe railroad line. Despite oldest brother Britt's efforts to maintain calm, one of the soldiers draws and fires and is killed in self-defense by Tom and Clint. In the saloon of a small Missouri town, two drunken Union soldiers taunt them. Shortly after the end of the Civil War, the Canfield brothers, Britt, Tom, Clint and Terry, leave the ruins of their Virginia plantation and ride northwest in search of new lives.
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