George diffuses the situation by telling the mob that he and Orry had served in the army together under General Scott. General Windield Scott, while in his seventies at the start of the war, was the United States' senior general and served in that capacity for the first months of the war before being sidelined and subsequently retiring in October 1861.
Last episode of the series.
Last show of Book One.
Actors John Stockwell (Billy Hazard) and William Ostrander (Forbes LaMotte) had played adversaries before in 1983 in John Carpenter's "Christine". Stockwell was 'Dennis Guilder' who protected Keith Gordon (Arnie Cunningham) from Ostrander who played the thug, 'Buddy Repperton'.