Dark Command is a 1940 movie fictionalization of Quantrill's Raiders in Bloody Kansas just prior to the American Civil War. Directed by Raoul Walsh, the film features John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, and Gabby Hayes. Dark Command is the only film in which western icons John Wayne and Roy Rogers appeared together. Quantrills Raiders were Confederate guerrillas who followed and fought under William Clarke Quantrill, an Ohio schoolteacher who relocated to Kansas, and who transformed a motley group of Southern sympathizing farmers and townsmen living behind Union lines into one of the Confederacys most effective and electric guerrilla units. ... Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to as Bloody Kansas, was a sequence of violent events that took place in Kansas Territory between roughly 1854 and 1856. ... A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight for political power or control of an area. ... Raoul Walsh (March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980) was an American film director. ... U.S. John Wayne stamp from 2004 John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), popularly known as The Duke,[1] was an American film actor whose career began in silent films in the 1920s. ... Trevor in Raw Deal (1948) Claire Trevor (March 8, 1910 - April 8, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American actress, nicknamed Queen of Film Noir because of her many appearances in bad girl” roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers. ... Walter Pidgeon Walter Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor. ... Dale Evans & Roy Rogers Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), became famous as Roy Rogers, a singer and cowboy actor. ... George Francis Gabby Hayes (May 7, 1885–February 9, 1969) was an American actor. ... U.S. John Wayne stamp from 2004 John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), popularly known as The Duke,[1] was an American film actor whose career began in silent films in the 1920s. ... Dale Evans & Roy Rogers Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), became famous as Roy Rogers, a singer and cowboy actor. ...