Hello–

I am trying to track down a movie that was shown on television in the mid 1980s or thereabouts. It might be a theatrical release or a made-for-television movie. It is in color and is English. It is probably set in the American Civil War era; some of the characters wear uniforms that look like that, at least.

I don’t know the overall plot, but in the movie, some soldiers come upon a farm stead that is near some woods. They stay there for a while. A woman lives there, and her child has recently died and was buried on a hill between the house and the woods, near a large tree. Every night the mother leaves her house and sleeps on (or next to?) the grave. The soldiers are surprised by this behavior.

It may be that Kris Kristofferson played one of the soldiers, but I can’t find anything that seems to be a match in his filmography. Maybe it’s just someone who looks kind of like him.