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- DirectorEdwin S. PorterThis film is difficult to classify. It opens on a scene showing a mourner with bowed head sitting in front of what appears to be a tombstone. Shortly afterwards, the face of Abraham Lincoln and then of two other presidents, Garfield and McKinley, can be seen on the monument and then they disappear. There is a figure huddled at the foot of a statue of Justice, as if asking forgiveness.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterBased on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but Eliza flees with her child. After getting some help to escape the slave traders who are looking for her, she then must try to cross the icy Ohio River if she wants to be free. Meanwhile, Tom is sold from one master to another, and his fortunes vary widely.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsDavid WallTwo West Point cadets, Ned Grey from Virginia and David Stratton from New England, are classmates. One day after Dress Parade Ned introduces his mother and father and sister to David, who is invited to visit them during his summer vacation. A Southern Home: David visits his chum; falls in love with Alice Grey, his classmate's sister. The declaration of war interrupts their courtship. The lovers are separated. David joins the northern navy, while Ned enlists under the stars and bars of General Lee. Storming the hill; the order is given to capture a strongly-fortified Confederate position. The attack, colors ordered to advance; the flag falls. The retreat. Captain Stratton sees the danger, rushes to the front, seizes the fallen flag and leads the charge. The hill is taken; Captain Stratton falls, badly wounded, carried to a southern home, the home of Alice Grey. The lovers meet again. The wounded officer is tenderly cared for by his southern sweetheart. In the enemy's lines. General Lee calls for volunteers to carry important dispatches through the Union lines. Lieutenant Ned Grey volunteers. He starts on his dangerous mission, passing the Union outposts. Detected, the pursuit, wounded, chase through the swamp. Lieutenant Grey crawls to his home. Brother and sister meet; hiding the dispatch bearer. The search. Captain Stratton swears no one entered the house. Between love and duty, the fatal mistake. The dispatch bearer escapes in Captain Stratton's Union overcoat and hat. Eluding the sentry, discovered, swimming the river, through the Union lives. Captain Stratton accused. The arrest. Drumhead court martial. The fatal overcoat, damaging evidence. The verdict: "To be shot at sunrise." Alice Grey pleads for his life. She appeals of General Grant. Her refuses to interfere. She starts on horseback for Washington, pursued by cavalry. Received by President Lincoln. His great heart is touched, justice triumphs; the pardon is granted. The firing squad, breaking of the dawn. Captain Stratton prepares to meet his fate. The order is given: Ready! Aim! Hold! Alice leaps the wall on horseback, delivers the pardon, and falls fainting in her lover's arms.
- DirectorVan Dyke BrookeThis thrilling story of the days of '61 and '65 shows a scene in the woods and our hero doing sentry duty. His work has been tiresome, his strength is about given out and he sits down to rest. He falls asleep and is awakened by the general and a squad of soldiers, who come unexpectedly upon him, place him under arrest and march him off to the guardhouse. He is later brought to the general's headquarters, where he is tried for his laxity. The buttons are torn from his uniform and he is otherwise degraded and sentenced to be shot. In the guardhouse the man sits meditating over the fate in store for him. He is visited by the chaplain, who consoles him as best he can. As a last resort the prisoner determines to write home and have his wife intercede in his behalf. She succeeds in getting a reprieve in a thrilling manner.
- A re-creation of the 3-day battle of Gettysburg, highlighting Pickett's charge.
- Shows his early years in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois; the Lincoln - Douglas debates; Judge Lincoln refusing a pro-slavery office; granting a pardon to sleeping picket; and his assassination.
- DirectorOtis TurnerThis picture story is a series of stirring war scenes occurring in 1865, at the homestead of Captain Warren, Confederate officer, near St. Petersburg, Va., at that time headquarters of General Logan.
- A re-creation of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the trail of John Wilkes Booth. The film ends with the allegorical representation of Lincoln receiving the reward of virtue.
- DirectorTheodore WhartonStarsLeopold WhartonThe incidents pictured in this film are founded on fact and relate to William Scott, a young soldier from the State of Vermont. Scott is on guard after a heavy day's march, and being found asleep is placed under arrest. He is tried by court-martial and sentenced to death. Meantime we see President Lincoln in his study at the White House in deep thought, and seeing a vision of the Civil War and the sorrow caused by it. The vision disappears and he reads a letter from Mrs. Scott pleading for the pardon of her son. Deeply affected he lays the letter down and sees another vision, that of the gray-haired mother and a nameless grave. We next see being marched off to the spot where he is to be shot. All is in readiness for the fatal word of command to be given, when through a cloud of dust a coach dashes up attended by outriders. The President steps out and pardons the prisoner, who falls on his knees and blesses him. The next scene is that of a battle with the Union soldiers retreating. The color-bearer falls, but William Scott rushes up, grabs the flag and rallies the Union troops, but amid the dreadful carnage he himself is shot. That night the doctors and ambulances are searching among the dead for the wounded who are still alive. They reach Scott. He is dying. A vision of the President appears before him, giving him a wreath of fame. Scott staggers to his feet, and as the vision fades away, drops dead. As a fitting climax, we see a tableau of President Lincoln taking from a Union and a Confederate color-bearer their respective flags, rolling them together and when they are unrolled displaying the Stars and Stripes.
- StarsCharles BrabinYale BossBecause a soldier is rewarded for bravery Lincoln's son "Tad" demands and gets a commission Armed with this he enlists the children. He goes through the grounds and finds a sentry whose place he takes - all on the strength of his commission. The soldier flies to the bedside of a sick wife, is arrested and taken to the President who hears his tale. The President and the private go out and find a very tired little boy still faithfully keeping watch.
- DirectorUlysses DavisThe "old man" never had much to say excepting to Jim, and Jim was the wildest boy he had. The old man knew and so did everybody in the town, including the lady's own husband, that Jim loved his neighbor's wife. But Jim didn't care, and the old man was so completely wrapped up in him that he closed his eyes to the wildness of the lad. Nine sons, and Jim was the wildest of them all. Then came news of the war that was soon to break forth between North and South. And the inevitable happened. The lady's husband saw Jim attempt to kiss his wife, and she permitted him to try. A row that resulted in a disgraceful fight was precipitated, and while the husband lay stunned and bleeding upon the floor, the news was thrown like a bomb upon the excited crowd in the room. "The war has broken out." The war, that terrible, but necessary slaughter of brave men, was begun, and Jim was the first to go. Some wagging tongues suggested that he had to go to escape the result of his terrible deed. However, "Cap." Bigler soon wrote back that Jim was the bravest man in the whole regiment, white or black. That his fighting is as good as his farming was bad, and he's carried the old flag through the bloodiest fight that ever was. The old man worded a letter to Jim and Jim read it to the boys. It said, "Good-bye, Jim, take care o' yourself." Then came the battle of Petersburg, General Grant commanding. The boys in grey lay behind their entrenchment and literally mowed down the lads in blue. Then the spark leapt into Jim's soul. For he dashed with his own men right up to the enemy's cannon, took them, pointed them the other way, and socked it home to the boys in grey, as they hurried for timber, on, and on, Jim, a lieutenant, with one arm gone. No battle in these terrible times was fiercer. None had deadlier results. Upon a heap of piled up corpses, grey and blue, brothers, dead, as once in life, wounded unto death, with the dear beloved flag held tightly in his hand, lay our hero, Jim. While his life-blood ebbed away, then appeared to him a vision of the first great father of liberty, George Washington, and by his side stood the father of emancipation, Abraham Lincoln, for whom Jim lay there dying, and between those two great fighters for freedom stands Liberty herself, resplendent in her robes of freedom. Blessing the stricken boy, the vision fades, and Jim with an effort rises to his feet, climbs to the top of the dead and, waving the beloved flag he calls to them to awaken and come on to battle. Furiously waving the tattered flag, he falls back into the arms of General Grant, and some of his aides. Think of a private like Jim, who has climbed up to the shoulder straps. Think of him with the war all through and a glorious old red, white and blue, covering him.
- DirectorThomas H. InceStarsWilliam CliffordEnid MarkeyCharles RayIn response to Lincoln's call for troops at the outset of the Civil War, Bill and Jim Clark leave for the front with the consent and blessing of their mother. The brothers take an affectionate farewell of their mother and sister, Louise and Anna. Their regiment is reviewed by President Lincoln and the soldiers march away with buoyant spirits and with loyal hearts. The story reverts to the front, after a battle scene, within the Union lines, the brother in the country of the enemy. They are doing picket duty, stationed on an outpost. They meet at the end of their rounds and Andrew Down, a rebel sharpshooter, comes upon them stealthily. He takes careful aim and shoots. Jim falls, apparently dead. Bill looks upon the body of his brother and is obsessed with rage and grief. Forgetting everything else in the knowledge that his brother has fallen, he dashes after the rebel. Dowd drops his gun and takes to his heels. Endowed with super-human strength Bill gains on Dowd, bent on revenge, and the race is a highly excited one. With strength almost spent Bill reaches Dowd, but catches hi foot under a root and falls. Dowd quickly turns and makes him his prisoner, securing his gun and covering him with the weapon. At this moment a detail of Union soldiers are seen coming towards them, and Dowd gives Bill to understand that if he will protect him, he will not shoot. Bill promises, and Dowd returns his gun. Bill threatens to shoot anyone who lays a hand on Dowd, claiming him as his prisoner. Dowd, a prisoner, repentant for shooting Jim, asks permission to nurse the brother, which is granted, and he gives him every attention. An order is brought for Jim to be sent home as he is convalescing, and at the same time Dowd is exchanged among other prisoners. Dowd expresses a desire to accompany Jim home safely and he is given the privilege. Jim and Dowd take an affectionate leave of Bill and starts north. Arriving at the Clark home the handsome young rebel makes a favorable impression notwithstanding the fact that he is an enemy and is responsible for the condition of Jim. Two weeks later Louise Clark and Andrew Dowd, the rebel, are discovered in the garden of the Clark grounds confessing their love for each other, the old, old story. Dowd takes leave of the Clark family and goes to join his regiment. He promises to return at the close of the war and claim Louise, and the scene of parting at the well is very affectionate. The story reverts to the time of peace after the war, the Fourth of July. The family is reunited. Jim, Bill and Down having returned alive. Dowd and his wife, Louise, and their children visit the Clark home. The children are given some fireworks and they start to fire them off. Jim goes to the flagpole in the yard and commences to hoist the Union flag. As the stars and stripes flutter in the breeze, Dowd turns to his relatives and, with his arm around his wife, exclaims, "This is our flag now." They cheer the flag, shake hands with the former rebel and the story closes with a display of fireworks to celebrate the occasion.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonLaurence TrimbleStarsRalph InceMaurice CostelloJulia Swayne GordonThis patriotic and historic picture portrays the writing of the famous national hymn by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. In the early part of the Civil War President Lincoln was very much discouraged at the lack of enthusiasm and the tardiness with which the people answered the call for volunteers to join the army. Mrs. Howe, in talking the matter over with the president, become very much impressed with the need of arousing the people to a fuller appreciation of the cause of the North and the maintenance of the Republic. The matter weighed so much upon her mind she could think of little else; during her slumbers she was so obsessed with her theme that one night in her sleep she arose from her bed and penned these immortal words: "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps. His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; 'As you deal with my contemners so with you my grace shall deal; Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.' He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh! Be swift my soul, so answer Him! Be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea; With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free, While God is marching on." This poem was published broadcast throughout the North, immediately the people became enthused with the noble cause of freedom; recruits poured into the stations and enrolled their names as volunteers. President Lincoln expressed his own and the nation's gratitude to Julia Ward How for sounding the key note of the battle cry of freedom. In addition to showing the reasons for and the conditions under which the poem was written, this film illustrates the meaning of the different stanzas of this poem in the allegorical tableaux and retrospect visions of the world from the earliest ages, making clear and fully interpreting the spirit which breathed patriotic fervor into the hearts of the people throughout the North, leading them to victory and the preservation of the Union.
- George Wharton leaves his Southern home to fight for the North. While in camp be chastises a fellow officer for insulting a lady and thereby gains his enmity. George's sister has a sweetheart, who is a Confederate officer, Robert E. Lee. He was now a prisoner in the Union camp, and therefore when Martha wrote a letter to her brother George, she enclosed a note to Robert E. Lee, a namesake of the famous General Lee. George gets his mail, but unfortunately drops the letter to Lee, which falls into the hands of his enemy. The latter opens it, only to find a harmless missive. Notwithstanding, he forges an incriminating letter, supposedly for Gen. Robert E. Lee, and places it in the original envelope, laying it where George will find it. With this accomplished, George is arrested through his enemy's connivance, tried and condemned. The lad now sends a note to his sweetheart, the girl he had saved from insult, and she informs his sister. His sweetheart attempts an audience with Grant, but with no avail. Before this took place, the Confederate officer had escaped. Meanwhile, George's sister also arrives and is also refused the pardon by Gen. Grant. She snatches a revolver from the belt of his servant and forces the general, at its point, to grant her request. The girl now dashes off to tell her story to Lincoln. Just then the Confederate officer, who had been re-captured, is brought in and he verifies her story. The pardon is granted. While George's sweetheart is holding up the villainous officer at the point where the condemned youth is to die. His sister rides up with Lincoln's pardon. A double union takes place, and four young people reap their reward.
- StarsEarle WilliamsRose TapleyCharles HermanJudge Stark is a most thorough representative of the straight-backed, straight-laced, strongly prejudiced Southern gentleman. The scene opens when he and his daughter, Bettie, are bidding the judge's son, Capt. Stark, good-bye as he starts for the front; all are evidently animated by but one thought, that of the certain defeat of their opponents. It is a sad blow to the Judge when he receives a newspaper relating the capture and imprisonment of his son; his Southern temper is displayed with marvelous vigor; his pride has received a serious setback, and although he would fain annihilate everyone himself, so great is his blending of pride, anger and defiance, circumstances compel him to accept the humiliation and bow to the inevitable. Soon after this, Bettie is walking through a neighboring glen when she finds a Union soldier lying wounded upon the rocks. As he appeals to her for help she is glad to have an opportunity to show her Southern antipathy and scorn him. Human impulses, however, are stronger than strivings, and she decides to help him. By her aid he is able to crawl into a nearby cave where he will be safe from capture and where Bettie has now determined to nourish him. Taking old "Mose," the colored man, into her confidence, she sends him with bedding while she procures food, and together they make Capt. Meyers comfortable. It being announced in the papers that General Sherman is to pass that way with troops, Meyers writes a note to the general telling of his whereabouts. This note old "Mose" is afraid to deliver. On his knees he begs Bettie to relieve him of what to him is such a hard and dangerous task. Indignant at his weakness, Bettie delivers the note herself and is given a company of soldiers, whom she leads to the cave, from where Capt. Meyers is safely carried away. In saying good-bye to Bettie, he promises to see what he can do for her brother, and she gives him her locket as a token. Arriving at headquarters, Capt. Meyers interviews President Lincoln in behalf of Capt. Stark. Succeeding in obtaining the pardon, which he takes to Capt. Stark in his cell, who is naturally surprised. Capt. Meyers having related his experiences to Capt. Stark and shown him his sister's locket, a warm friendship springs up between them, resulting in Stark inviting Meyers to his Southern home. Judge Stark's old prejudice causes him to offer but a cool reception. The pleadings of his son and daughter, however, prevail and in addition to relenting he accepts Meyers as a son-in-law, whole old "Mose" holds aloft the Flag of the Union; thus are they united under one flag. It is a well told story, perfectly enacted and creditable to all.
- DirectorFrancis BoggsStarsJames DaytonAlvin WyckoffSydney AyresLieut. Grey, C.S.A., is sent to obtain plans of the Federal forts. He meets and is aided by Col. Carter's daughter, Elizabeth, a loyal Confederate. Later he is chased and wounded by a party of guerrillas, headed by the notorious Jim Jason. He seeks refuge in the Carter home, where the guerrillas find him. He shoots Jason, and holds the others at bay, saving the lives of his new-found friends, Elizabeth and her father. Aid finally comes in the form of a troop of Federal soldiers, led by Lieut. Brighton. U.S.A. Grey refuses to escape and is taken prisoner, and later sentenced to be shot as a spy. Before leaving, he confesses his love to Elizabeth and she confesses hers to him. The Col. and Elizabeth intercede with Grant in Grey's favor and succeed in obtaining a reprieve. Elizabeth then goes to President Lincoln for a pardon. That kindly gentleman relents and Grey's life is saved, hut he is forced to remain a prisoner during the remainder of the war. The war finally ends. Grey and Elizabeth are married and they pay a visit to their friend and benefactor, President Lincoln.
- StarsJack StandingFrances GibsonRomaine FieldingWalter Rodgers, a northerner, was engaged to marry Cora Fletcher, daughter of a southern colonel. A lawn fete was in full swing at her home when word came of the firing on Fort Sumter. An exceedingly dramatic scene followed in which the Colonel swore eternal allegiance to the southern cause, followed enthusiastically by all the guests, with the single exception of Walter, who declared for the North though it cost him his sweetheart. He bade Cora an affectionate farewell and went to serve his country. Two years later Walter's troop of cavalry took up its quarters at the Fletcher home in spite of the protests of Walter, who tried to have the men quartered somewhere else. Willie they were there the Colonel became very effusive in his attentions to the beautiful Cora. Walter was unable to stand it any longer and knocked his captain down, a most serious offense. He was promptly arrested, court-martialed and sentenced to death. Seeing her lover about to be snatched away from her forever, Cora determined to save him. After a wild night ride, she reached a place where President Lincoln was. Her plea with that man of tenderness and mercy was successful. She secured the pardon and brought it back just in time to save Walter's life.
- DirectorHal ReidStarsRalph InceMary MauriceJames MorrisonAt the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, the six sons of widow Beecham enlist. The seventh son is very anxious to join the army and fight for his country, but his brothers insist upon his remaining home with his mother. At the "Battle of Bull Run" three of the brothers are killed. The seventh son, fired with patriotism, goes to the front, leaving his old mother alone. He distinguishes himself for bravery, saving his colonel's life during the "Battle of the Wilderness" at which three more of the widow's sons are killed. The youngest boy, his nerves shattered, flees in terror. He is brought up on charges of desertion and sentenced to death. Secretary of War Stanton receives an appeal from the boy's mother, but refuses to recommend his pardon. The widowed mother calls on the President personally. She is granted an interview. Lincoln listens with the tender sympathy for which he was noted. The bereaved mother unbosoms her overburdened soul and tells him of the six graves filled with the bodies of her sons, who fought and died for their country. With tears, she pleads for her last and only boy, the hope and love of her old age. The old lady anxiously awaits his decision and is about to leave his presence when the President calls her back and hands her her boy's pardon, saying: "You have given six sons for your country and I am going to give you the seventh."
- DirectorRichard GarrickStarsFrances OsmanRichard GarrickMyrtle StedmanFred, Mrs. Wilson's little boy, is grieved to be called in when he wants to play soldier. His mother comforts him by showing him his father's bugle and telling him its story. His father's valiant part in the Civil War brought him the bugle from the hands of President Lincoln. Fred, fourteen years later, goes as a soldier in the Spanish War, taking his father's bugle with him. In a desperate charge against a Spanish fort the color bearer is wounded, and Fred seizes the colors and carries them forward. He is about to plant the flag on the captured fort when he is shot and, in his dying moments, sends his father's bugle back to his mother, who places it reverently above the portraits of her husband and her son.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonJames YoungStarsRalph InceTefft JohnsonJames YoungLost film about the Gettysburg Address. Nothing is known about the survival status of this short film. It features the fourth live-action depiction of Abraham Lincoln on film.
- DirectorWilliam LeeStarsHarry LonsdaleDavid FischerChester GouldYou see the incidents that led to the Blackhawk War- the signing of the treaty of 1830, the first assault on settlers in 1831- how the news reached Springfield, where you see Abraham Lincoln, axe on shoulder, hearing the news, his volunteer company and what happened and when they reported to General Scott; how Blackhawk, after his peace messengers were shot, decided to fight. Also a glimpse of Mrs. Zachary Taylor and her two daughters, their determination to visit their father at Ft. Crawford, how Blackhawk captured Sarah Taylor and how Jefferson Davis recaptured her and fell in love with her, the famous attack on Ft. Crawford with burning fagots, battering rams, and finally the successful attack with flaming arrows. We see the suffering inside the fort and the marriage of Davis and Sarah, finally the ultimate capture of Blackhawk, after a blood-stirring battle.
- DirectorWilliam V. RanousStarsRalph InceJulia Swayne GordonJames MorrisonNo matter how absorbed with affairs of state, Abraham Lincoln was always ready to give audience to his little son Tad. Little Tad, playing at the boat landing of the White House lake, falls into the water and is saved from drowning by a young fellow named Jasper Brinton. When young Brinton carries Tad into the White House, the president is very grateful to him and says if there is anything that he can do for him at any time he will be glad to do it. Young Brinton's mother is an enthusiastic supporter of the Federal cause, and when the war breaks out, she urges her son to join the Union army. He has an inherent dread of danger and naturally hesitates. He finally enlists. On the battlefield his natural fear takes possession of him. He trembles in every limb and flees in terror when he hears the cannon's roar and sees the shot and shell falling about him. He rushes into the colonel's headquarters. The colonel tells him to carry a message to the commanding officer, who is in the front ranks of the fighting regiment. The poor fellow starts out with it to the battlefield. As he sees the dead about him, the bombs bursting and hears the bullets whistle, he determines to desert. He changes his uniform for a dead Confederate's and continues his flight, dropping his message as he goes. Some Union soldiers see him, pursue and capture him. He tells them that he is a Union soldier and confesses the reason for his disguise. He is tried for desertion and sentenced to be shot. His mother intercedes for him with the president, and reminds him that her boy saved little Tad from drowning. The president is in great stress of mind. The poor boy's offense is so evident that the president feels, aside from his personal feeling and gratitude, that he can make no plea in behalf of the offender. While he is meditating over the matter, an officer enters the room and tells him that young Brinton has died in prison of heart failure. Little Tad, unseen, enters the room, throws his arms around Mrs. Brinton's neck and in his childish way tries to comfort and console her.
- DirectorThomas H. InceStarsRobert EdesonWalter EdwardsFrank BorzageFred Martin is a Southern spy. A northern dispatch bearer is captured, and the signature to his messages is forged and Martin is sent on the dangerous mission of luring the Northern troops into an ambush. He accomplishes this, and a terrible battle results, in which the Federals are driven back. The work of Martin is so damaging to the North that plans are laid for his capture, and John Bruce, a secret service man, is assigned to the task. He goes to Martin's home town and presents a forged letter of introduction to the Martins, purporting to be signed by Fred Martin. He is welcomed into the home and to further his ends makes love to Anna Martin. While in the Martin home the Northern troops surround the house and Bruce, fearing that his plans to capture Martin will fall if the field is not left clear for him to return, is compelled to make himself known to the Northern officer. Fred Martin is expected on a visit that night, so Bruce shows his credentials as a secret service man and instructs the soldiers to secrete themselves about the house. In bidding good-bye to Anna he drops the passport, and she learns the awful truth. Anna has been expecting her brother, and has given the signal, a candle in the window, that the coast was clear. Gun in hand, Bruce awaits Fred, and the anguished girl sees the spy in the moonlight, crouching behind a bush. Galloping towards home, Fred is surprised on a bridge by two northern sentries. Dismounting, he hands them a pass hoping they will be deceived by the northern uniform he is wearing. In swift succession he delivers crushing blows upon the faces of the sentries, and they tumble off the bridge into the water, and leaping on his horse he gallops away. With swift strokes one of the sentries gets to shore, and leveling his rifle takes a quick shot at Fred as he goes around a bend in the road, little thinking it will hit the mark. Fred's horse is struck, and leaping into the air it turns a complete somersault backwards and falls on Fred, Crushed and hurt, Fred extricates himself from the dying animal, and crawls away. The delay has saved him, for the northern soldiers awaiting him give him up in the early hours of the morning, and when Fred drags himself to the door he is unobserved. Anna and her mother put Fred to bed. In his wounded condition he is helpless, and Anna realizes that he must be captured unless she saves him. Attempting to leave the house, her way is barred by a northern sentry. Donning her brother's clothes she manages to affect her escape, and leaping on a horse gallops swiftly away. Bruce has determined upon a bold stroke, and impersonating Fred he goes to the union colonel and tells him a detachment of southern soldiers is nearby, and attempts to lead the northern soldiers into an ambush. In the meantime Anna is making a wild ride, sparing neither the horse nor herself, and she arrives in time to bare Bruce's plot, and accuse him. On her part, Anna has fallen desperately in love with Bruce, and he has lost his heart to the brave girl, but each buries personal feeling for the sake of their respective countries. Bruce is arrested and quickly tried and convicted of being a spy. He is led out in the field, and a dozen soldiers face him with leveled rifles. Anna sees the impending execution and with an agonized scream darts across the field, but the rifles thunder a volley and the man she loves falls dead. The picture ends with Anna sobbing over the dead secret service man.
- DirectorRaymond B. WestStarsRichard StantonRay MyersHerschel MayallJim Ward, a southerner, is engaged to Edith Blake, and escorts her to a dance on Christmas Eve. His brother, Jack, hangs a sprig of mistletoe on the veranda and entices the girls underneath it, when he kisses them. Edith has just fallen a victim to Jack's trap and he has clasped her in his arms, when Jim, ignorant of the true state of things, looks out. Angry and hurt, he goes home without a word and thereafter avoids Edith, who is puzzled at his actions, but too proud to ask an explanation. She accepts the attentions of Jack, who falls in love with her. The war breaks out and Jim is among the first to answer the call for men, being made a Hententot. Thrilling scenes of battle are shown in which Jim takes part. Jack marries Edith and stays at home, and, the family fortunes having dwindled on account of the war, he is unable to meet a mortgage held by Silas Green. Green makes a demand for payment, and as he leaves Jack's home he is captured by northern soldiers, who draft him into the service. His cowardly heart revolts at the prospect of risking his life, and he offers to purchase a substitute. Accordingly, he persuades Jack to take his place, agreeing to cancel the mortgage. It thus happens that Jack is seen fighting under the stars and stripes, while Jim is battling under the confederate emblem. In a sensational charge the federals capture a number of prisoners, among them Jack, who is brought before his own brother. Jack is placed in a hencoop, which has been improvised into a jail, and overpowers his guard. He escapes by changing uniforms with the confederate, and making his exit in the midst of tremendous excitement during a crushing attack by the federals. A bomb drops onto the hencoop and in bursting destroys it, killing the confederate guard whom Jack had locked in. and mangling his features into an unrecognizable mass. Jim sees the body and believing it to be his brother, is greatly affected by the pitiful sight. The bruised and battered corpse is sent home for burial, and Jim regrets his enmity, forfeiting the great wrong he thought his brother had done him. Clad in the confederate uniform, Jack is captured by the federals and placed in prison. The war ends and Jim goes home, where he effects a reconciliation with Edith, who is the mother of his brother's child, and marries her. The release of prisoners occupies considerable time, and Jack, with long, unkempt hair and heard, anxiously awaits the day of freedom. When he is finally set at liberty, he makes his way home and sees his little girl, accompanied by the old Negro mammy, going to the graveyard. They do not recognize him, and he learns that they are laying flowers on the grave they think is his. Questioning them he is horrified to learn of Edith's marriage to his brother, and for the first time he understands his brother's animosity toward himself. As night falls he peers into the window and notes with sinking heart the love existing between the trio, his wife and child and his brother. To reveal himself would cast desolation upon three lives; to remain silent would hurt but himself. He resolves to make the sacrifice. Going to the tavern he learns that Silas Green is foreclosing the mortgage on the home, taking advantage of Jack's supposed death. He determines the save the property, but is in a quandary as to how to do it without divulging the fact that he is alive. He resolves to secure possession of the mortgage, and effecting an entrance into Green's house, finds the document. Green, awakening, rushes at the intruder with a pistol and fires. Jack and Green engage in a desperate struggle. A stable man, hearing the shot, grabs a rifle and runs to the house, just as Jack throws his antagonist from him and hurls him through the window. The startled stable man fires at the form, which he thinks is that of a burglar, and Silas Green receives the charge. Jack makes his escape, and the picture closes with him standing in the road, looking longingly back toward the little town sheltering the woman he loves, and for whom he has made such a great sacrifice.