

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.
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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
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