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Storyline:

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.

Cast:

Walter Miller

as The Confederate Captain

Mary Pickford

as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart

Henry B. Walthall

as The False Brother

Kate Bruce

as The Mother

Dorothy Gish

as The Southern Girl

Robert Harron

as The Southern Boy

Harry Carey

as The Confederate Corporal

W. Chrystie Miller

as Union Soldier

Joseph Graybill

as Union Soldier

Lillian Gish

as Walk on role

Lionel Barrymore

as Union Soldier

Alfred Paget

as Confederate General

Jack Pickford

as Negro Boy