Overview

The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust. He permits her to believe that her lover is dead. Caught in the neighborhood, however, between the lines of the enemy, the brother appears before them at the crucial moment. In retaliation the false brother turns informer. Both forces are aroused to arms and during the attack upon the girl defending her wounded lover and family alone in the negro's cabin retribution comes in the form of a stray bullet.

Top Cast

Walter Miller

The Confederate Captain

Mary Pickford

The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart

Henry B. Walthall

The False Brother

Kate Bruce

The Mother

Dorothy Gish

The Southern Girl

Robert Harron

The Southern Boy

Harry Carey

The Confederate Corporal

W. Chrystie Miller

Union Soldier

Joseph Graybill

Union Soldier

Lillian Gish

Walk on role

Lionel Barrymore

Union Soldier

Alfred Paget

Confederate General