Southward Ho!

Confederate officer Roy Rogers and disorderly orderly Gabby Hayes count coup on Union Colonel Wade Boteler by stealing his roast chicken and his pants. Peace is declared, so Gabby invites Roy to be the top hand on the ranch in Texas he has inherited a half interest in. When they arrive, they discover Boteler owns he other half, and he and daughter Lynne Roberts are already in occupancy. They start to wrangle, but Boteler is appointed military commander of the district. He means to be fair, but the troops sent under the command of Arthur Loft are there to graft. Boteler doesn't notice, being too distracted by his feud with Gabby.

It was a truism of the era that the South was invariably gallant, innocent, and unbearably oppressed by carpetbaggers and scalawags, and so long as nothing bad was said about Lincoln, it was fine. This holds pretty much true to that, making sure it could get into the Whites-Only Theaters down south, where they could hear Rogers and the Southern Army singing "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny", which was written in 1878 by a Black man. Ignore those .... let's call them "incongruities", shall we? .... and you have a typically decent script, well directed by Joseph Kane, shot by Jack Marta, with some spectacular stunts.

Too bad I couldn't.