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I didn't actually see this, but a friend described it to me. He said it was an old black-and-white movie that he saw on TV in the United States. So it might actually be a TV show. He said that the characters were having a party, and the musicians started playing a song that made a lot of the people start fighting. Someone broke up the fight and told everyone that they shouldn't play that song, because it was a "Union song" which would rekindle feeling of the Civil War and make people start fighting. That is, not a union like a trade union, but the Union as it was in the American Civil War. This implies that many of the characters present were from the Confederate states. After that fight was broken up, one character stood and proudly announced that he was in the Union army. This made the other characters resentful.
I asked him if it was a Western, and he said that it was "like a Western, but it didn't have a cowboy theme. It was more like they were mountain men or something."
The only other thing he told me was that it made him laugh because of the outdated slang and other outdated terms used. If this film was supposed to portray the aftermath of the Civil War, I don't know if these outdated terms were supposed to be from that era or from the time the film was made. He couldn't be specific about any of these slang words.