Jason Robards
— President Abraham Lincoln (voice)
James Earl Jones
— Narrator (voice)
Glenn Close
— Mary Todd Lincoln (voice)
Richard Widmark
— Ward Hill Lamon (voice)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
— John G. Nicolay (voice)
Burgess Meredith
— Winfield Scott (voice)
Richard Thomas
— John Hay (voice)
Ned Beatty
— Dennis Hanks (voice)
Barnard Hughes
— Horace Greeley (voice)
Maureen Stapleton
— Sarah Bush Lincoln (voice)
Keith Carradine
— William Herndon (voice)
Blythe Danner
— Elizabeth Todd Edwards (voice)
Fred Gwynne
— Edwin Stanton (voice)
Stacy Keach
— George McClellan (voice)
Oprah Winfrey
— Elizabeth Keckley (voice)
Ossie Davis
— Frederick Douglas (voice)
E.G. Marshall
— Gideon Welles (voice)
Robert Vaughn
— Isaac Arnold (voice)
Dabney Coleman
— Stephen A. Douglas (voice)
Philip Bosco
— Frederick Seward (voice)
Jim Dale
— Baltimore Correspondent (voice)
Cliff Roberts
— Noah Brooks (voice)
Jill Clayburgh
— Emilie Todd Helm (voice)
Rod Steiger
— Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (voice)
Gordon Parks
— Henry H. Garnet (voice)
Frank Langella
— John Wilkes Booth (voice)
Richard Dreyfuss
— William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
Eli Wallach
— William Crook (voice)
John Shea
— John Barnes (voice)
Laurence Luckinbill
— Joshua Speed (voice)