Pharaoh's Army is a 1995 American Western film directed, written and produced by Robby Henson, starring Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Kris Kristofferson.

After the unexplained death of Sarah Anders' (Clarkson) daughter at the hand of Yankees (Union Army), the body is buried in Altamira.

Captain John Hull Abston (Cooper) is a Union army officer, widower, and a farmer before the war, from Brown County, Ohio.

He commands a party of four soldiers scavenging for supplies: Corporal Neely, Rodie, a pole called Chicago, and Newt, the youngest.

In fact, the Captain takes pity on Sarah, and as they wait around, he even assists her in plowing a small patch of land to plant a corn crop, as 'he likes to work with mules'.

The upset captain fires two rounds into the air, asks that the dead soldier be provided a decent Christian burial, then returns to the other two of his party.

Epilogue text reads 'In 1941 a Kentucky mountaineer returned to a remote sinkhole, the place when during the Civil War he had killed and buried a Union soldier.

The title is taken from Preacher alluding to the boy the story from the Old Testament, about pharaoh's army (the North) being sent to smite Israel (the South), and how it was destroyed.

According to director/producer/writer Robby Henson, Pharaoh's Army was inspired by Shelby Foote's books about the war between the North and South, and 'is based on a true story.