- Rowdy Yates: Hey, Boss.
- Gil Favor: Yeah, I recognise gunfire by now.
- Pete Nolan: Thought I heard a canon.
- Rowdy Yates: The Cavalry didn't have a canon.
- Gil Favor: No, it's not too often they do.
- Sgt. Willis: Hey, Bugler, don't you ever get tired of messing around with that horn?
- Bugler: Sergeant, up here, what else is there to mess around with?
- Sgt. Willis: If that Major'd get off his pighead and act like a Major, I'd have you whooped 'til you couldn't stand.
- Bugler: Sergeant, you're speaking of your commanding officer.
- Sgt. Willis: I'd break you and this nice, big camp in one day.
- Bugler: Ah ha, and then what would you do then?
- Jim Quince: Joe! Mr Favor's back!
- Joe Scarlet: He is?
- Jim Quince: He sure is!
- Joe Scarlet: He might think the night guard oughta be listening.
- Jim Quince: Joe!
- Joe Scarlet: Yeah?
- Jim Quince: We're the night guards.
- [They have been mesmerised by Miss Danvers' singing like everybody else in camp]
- Rowdy Yates: Wishbone invited them for super.
- Wishbone: I'd have done the same if she was my grandmother.
- Rowdy Yates: And with one thing and another.
- Gil Favor: The herd hasn't moved since she arrived.
- Anne Danvers: Well, I've made a lot of money and my father's worked very hard. So I bought a house in Philadelphia for us.
- Gil Favor: Funny thing. You remind me so much of someone from Philadelphia.
- Anne Danvers: Really? Who?
- Gil Favor: Oh, well. Y'know, my two little girls are in Philadelphia.
- Anne Danvers: Oh. With your wife?
- Gil Favor: No, they're with an aunt. Been a long time since I seen them. Not since the war, as a matter of fact.
- Nelson Hoyt: Told you this is dangerous country.
- Mushy: Well, I don't think it's dangerous.
- Nelson Hoyt: They didn't come to play Ring around the Rosie.
- [a large contingent of Cavalry arrives, a young troop with a much older sergeant]
- Jim Quince: I've seen that sergeant before. Only.
- Joe Scarlet: Yeah?
- Jim Quince: Well, he wasn't a sergeant then and his name wasn't Mattson.
- Joe Scarlet: It's Mattson now.
- Jim Quince: No, no, that ain't the name I don't remember.
- Jim Quince: You remind me of someone.
- Mattson: In the war?
- Jim Quince: Army of the Confederacy, Sergeant... We fought most anywhere.
- Mattson: I know you were. Would the name Thorpe mean anything to you?
- Jim Quince: Well, it sure would. Colonel commanded troops on our left flank.