Barry Bostwick, Patty Duke, Leo Burmester, and Farnham Scott are the only actors from the original mini-series to reprise their roles in this mini-series. Richard Fancy played Samuel Adams in the original Washington Series.
As a young man, Henry Knox wounded himself in firing a shotgun, losing two fingers on his left hand. That is why Farnham Scott wears a handkerchief around his hand in all of his scenes portraying General Knox.
Allison Hedges's debut.