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.
