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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.
- DirectorFrancis FordStarsFrancis FordEthel GrandinCharles EdlerAbraham Lincoln is shown in his youth addressing an audience of villagers on a street corner. A terrific thunderstorm comes up, driving his auditors away, and Lincoln mounts his horse and rides away. The storm increases in fury, and Lincoln is compelled to seek shelter at a farmhouse owned by a widow, Mrs. Barnes, who has a 10-year-old son, Harry. Mrs. Barnes prepares a hearty meal for Lincoln, who dries himself at the hearth, and when the storm has ceased wishes to pay Mrs. Barnes for the meal. Knowing his poverty, she refuses to accept anything, and Lincoln gravely gives her an I.O.U., reading: "I.O.U. the price of one good meal. Also my life, as I might have lost it in the storm. Abe Lincoln, Lawyer." Ten years later the Civil War breaks out, and Harry Barnes enlists. During the course of the war the Union soldiers take up headquarters with a Southern family, and Harry meets Betty and falls in love with her, and secures her promise to marry him after the war is over. As the Union soldiers move on they are caught in an ambush, and Harry's horse is shot from under him. He leans into the thicket and in a running fight with his pursuers manages to elude them and takes refuge at Betty's home. Betty is fearful that Harry will be captured, and provides him with a suit of civilian's clothes, and that night he endeavors to steal back to his regiment. He is captured, however, and according to military rules is held as a spy, being caught within the enemy's lines without his uniform. Harry sends a letter to his mother telling her of the facts, and she makes an impassioned plea to General Porter, the Southern soldier for her son's life, to no avail. Harry is shot, and a pathetic and dramatic scene takes place as the mother fondles her boy's lifeless body and calls for vengeance upon the heads of those responsible for his death. A month later General Porter lays plans to crush the North, and sends his son Bob to General Lee with plans of the Union fortifications. Bob has a narrow escape from capture, and in his flight comes upon the home of Mrs. Barnes. With her heart heavy with grief over the death of her son, her sympathy goes out to this hunted youth, and she hides him in the room formerly occupied by Harry. Bob has thrown down his coat, and the letter to Lee drops out. Mrs. Barnes reads it, and in a flash she plans a terrible revenge on General Porter. While Bob is sleeping in thorough exhaustion after his nights of peril, she hides his clothing and substitutes her son's uniform, and when the Union soldiers come hunting for Bob she helps in his capture and accuses him of being a spy, turning over to the Union officer the letter to Lee and telling him that Bob came there posing as a Northern officer. Bob is arrested and held for trial as a spy. The failure of Bob to deliver the letter leads to a terrific battle, in which the Confederates are driven back. Mrs. Barns, in calm contemplation of her work, realizes what an injustice she has done, and filled with remorse has terrible visions which nearly drive her mad. She finally resolves to appeal to Lincoln, and hurries to him. Her plea is overruled by the cabinet, but when Mrs. Barnes lays Lincoln's old I.O.U. in his hand and demands payment of his obligation, he is persuaded to sign the pardon which is rushed by fleet messengers to save the Southern boy's life.
- StarsJoel DayThis picture play illustrates an episode in President Lincoln's life prior to his election for Congress. It is historically accurate in every particular. It is the day before his final address to the electors and his success depends upon his final speech, which he has positively promised his political managers to make. A letter arrives from a poor mother whose boy is to be tried for murder, and she begs Lincoln to appear in his defense and save her child. Despite the protestations of his political managers, he determines to chance losing the election, in order to save the child. He tramps to the little courthouse, and in an impassioned plea to the jury tells them how this woman befriended him when he was a poor boy, and how he had held the accused in his arms as a baby, and by appealing forcibly to their paternal feelings, he succeeds in having a verdict brought in of not guilty.
- DirectorFrancis FordStarsWilliam CliffordVictoria FordeGrace CunardAt the time the play opens the .Southern army is harassing the Unionists. The Northern spy force is augmented and Grace, whose brother, Harry, is already in the secret service, joins it. She meets Harry and together they take a coach to the Southern town they have selected to spy upon. A prominent colonel in the Southern army deals with dispatches, and it is this man that Grace investigates while Harry awaits events. The colonel has a sweetheart, May, and Grace manages to got an introduction to her at a ball by purposely tearing her dress and appealing to May for help. This leads to an acquaintance with the Colonel, and she practices all her woman's wiles and fascinations upon him and he is impressed with her. Grace learns that important dispatches are to be forwarded and plots to get into the colonel's house. She manages matters cleverly, and contrives to have her carriage break down before his residence. The colonel endeavors to get rid of her, but she stalls him off until the arrival of May, when he has to hide her in the next room. May comes to warn him about Grace, for she is suspicious and her woman's intuition tells her that Grace is there for no good. The colonel tries to defend Grace, who gets a chance to change the dispatches for false ones, but drops a letter by mistake, and escapes by way of the window, giving the dispatches to her brother. May sees the letter of commendation from the North. A servant has seen Harry. The colonel rides off after him. He catches up with him as they ride into the battlefield, and in a hand-to-hand duel Harry is killed by the colonel, who is himself mortally wounded by a stray bullet. Grace returns to Washington and receives compliments and rewards. She returns to her home with a clouded conscience, and while sitting looking at her reward, the specters of Harry and the colonel appear and beckon her. She is forced to go with them, and together they appear on the battlefield and they show her their own bodies, and slowly they fade away and their specters enter their dead bodies. She comes to and staggers to the stairs to get assistance. She faints and falls down the stairway and dies.
- StarsJoel DayMrs. Scott, a widow, has a son, Ben, and a nephew, Will. Ben enlists for the war and his mother is prostrated by the news. Will tells his aunt that he will enlist and watch over her boy. Six months elapse and Ben is taken ill while on picket duty, unknown to the authorities, Will takes his place, and the arduous duty of double watch makes him fall asleep on his post. The officer of the watch discovers this and Will is arrested, tried by court-martial and sentenced to be shot. Ben is delirious and carried to the hospital and is unaware of his cousin's danger. Will writes to his aunt explaining his position, and Mrs. Scott makes up her mind to go to Washington and appeal to President Lincoln to save him. She has great difficulty in obtaining an audience with Lincoln as his private secretary refuses to allow her to enter. Lincoln overhears the altercation, comes to the anteroom and takes Mrs. Scott into his library. There the poor woman tells the story of her nephew's devotion and begs Lincoln to save him. The boy's devotion touches Lincoln's heart and he determines to save him. With Mrs. Scott he travels to the execution ground, arriving just in time to save Will, who is facing the firing party. Lincoln pardons Will, saying that the army needs men like him.
- DirectorFrancis FordStarsFrancis FordWilliam CliffordEthel GrandinEdith Eldridge, daughter of Colonel Eldridge, disguises herself as a boy to enlist with her two brothers in the Confederate array. Her identity is discovered and she is rejected. Federal raiders ransack and burn the Eldridge home, and kill Edith's father. Enos and Mammy, faithful slaves, save Edith's life. To avenge the murder, Edith turns spy for the Confederates. With Enos she goes through the swamps to the headquarters of General Johnson. The general pleads with her to give up her perilous undertaking, but she insists. Entering the Union lines, she arrives alone near the quarters of Lieut. Phillips. She feigns illness and the officer carries the seemingly prostrate girl to quarter, where she confides her to the wife of an officer. Edith's story is plausible, and she is allowed to remain. Slowly, but surely, Lieut. Phillips is falling in love with her. Enos is captured. Edith aids him to get work around the quarters. She plans to secure the outline map of the Union fortifications, entrusted to Lieut. Phillips. By betraying her faith she secures them and makes her escape. She is pursued and wounded, but reaches the Confederate lines. As a result of the information the Confederates make an immediate attack. During the battle Edith sees both of her brothers fall, and witnesses the danger of the Confederate ammunition wagons. Climbing into the seat of an ammunition wagon, whose driver has been shot, she attempts to cross the stream with it. The Confederates are repulsed, and Lieut. Phillips captures Edith, takes her back to the Union camp as a prisoner. Enos learns she will meet the fate of a spy. The old negro decides to appeal to President Lincoln. He steals away in the night. Upon reaching Washington, Enos is first denied admittance to the White House, but on the following day is allowed to plead for the life of his mistress. His story touches Lincoln's heart and the president wires General Thomas to suspend execution and send the girl to him. The message arrives in the nick of time, and Lieutenant Phillips is selected to take the prisoner to Washington. Edith is bitter in her prejudice and heaps invectives on the president's head when she comes before him. Nevertheless he pardons her. She is taken away by Lieutenant Phillips, who tells her to go where she will, as she is free. Edith remains in Washington, and Enos becomes man-of-all-work at her boarding place. She works as a seamstress. She treasures a picture given her many months before by Lieut. Phillips. Wise old Enos brings her a newspaper in which she reads an article concerning the president's plans to attend Ford's Theater and witness the performance of Our American Cousin. The article states that Lieut. Phillips, in company with Gen. Grant and his wife are expected as the president's guests. Edith, hoping that the Phillips mentioned is her Northern lover, scrapes her savings together and with the aid of Enos' coppers, attends the play. All cheer when the presidential party enter the box. During the play Edith watches the box intently. She sees a man glide along toward the president. A shot is fired. President Lincoln's head falls quietly on his breast and his arms to his side. In the uproar that follows Edith hastens out and to her lodgings, where the wounded president is brought and placed in Edith's bed. Lieut. Phillips assists Mrs. Lincoln from the room and turns her over to a woman. He recognizes her. It is Edith. Back in the room with the dying man, they stand with clasped hands as Abraham Lincoln closes his eyes on this earthly world. Sometime later Enos apprises Mammy that he is back and well, and with him is Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Phillips. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- DirectorCharles GiblynThomas H. InceStarsWillard MackCharles EdlerAnn LittleA young woman's sweetheart fights for the Union, while her brother fights for the Confederates, in the pivotal 1863 battle of the U.S. Civil War.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsAnita StewartRalph InceWallace ReidHaywood, a suitor for the hand of Elida Rumsey, is severely reprimanded by her for not enlisting when President Lincoln calls for volunteers. Being deeply interested in the cause, Elida goes and helps Mrs. Pomeroy minister to sick and wounded soldiers. She becomes a favorite with the men, for she frequently sings to them. This attracts Lincoln's attention, and he introduces her to M. Fowle, a mission worker who is becoming discouraged by the soldiers' lack of response to his efforts. Elida's singing awakens the dormant spark of manhood, and more men enlist. In order to stir patriotism, President Lincoln requests Elida to sing at a concert. Haywood comes and is induced to enlist, which pleases Elida so much that Fowle, who has grown to love her, thinks that he is her lover. He keeps his love for her in silence. Some time later Elida and Fowle are ordered to the front, where there has been an enormous carnage. Elida finds Haywood seriously wounded, after leading a gallant charge to victory. She does all in her power to save him, but he passes away. Fowle's sympathy is so marked that Elida is lead to believe that he has been under the impression that Haywood was her lover. She tells him that he was nothing more to her than a friend. Fowle seizes the opportunity and tells her of his love for her. They are wed in the presence of President Lincoln in the only marriage solemnized at the Capitol.
- DirectorFrancis FordStarsFrancis FordGrace CunardEdgar KellerLincoln is first seen as a rail splitter in the country, and even then, he is a peace-maker. His life as a storekeeper and his meeting with Ann Rutledge follow. He proposes to her, and his suit is unsuccessful. She dies, and Lincoln is seen in his first great sorrow, mourning over her grave. Abe is seen debating with Douglas, and after a lapse of time, he is soon in the presidential chair. The Federal Army under Burnside is retreating towards Washington. Lincoln visits McClellan, and is cheered by the weary soldiers. Grant is placed in command of the Federal Army, and the Confederates are driven back. Many big battle scenes are shown. Lee surrenders and with the return of the decimated Federal Army Lincoln's mind goes to the battlefield and the army of dead. The story ends when close friends of the martyred statesman read of his death and the country is thrown into mourning.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsRalph InceAnita StewartE.K. LincolnReturning from his inauguration, Lincoln, with the sounds of the acclaim of the populace still in his ears, and realizing in a moment of loneliness the emptiness of his life, dreams of Ann Rutledge, over whose grave he has said, "My heart is buried here." As he sits in front of his fire with the soft glow of the flickering light on his strong, kindly face, his mind wanders hack over the years until he sees again the little tavern room in Rutledge, with Ann and the simple, rude frontiersmen. Lincoln enters the tavern room and hands Ann a book; it is a grammar. He has promised to help her perfect herself in her education. Then comes McNeill, who calls Ann away, and who, down by the riverbank, proposes to her and gets her consent. When Lincoln is told of her engagement he fights down his great longing for her in the knowledge that she is happy. McNeill is called to the east to attend to his mother's inheritance, and Ann is left disconsolate at his departure. She turns to Lincoln, as always, for comfort. The months pass and bring no letter from McNeill. Finally she does hear from him, and learns that he will never return. Again she turns to Lincoln in her hour of sorrow and he comforts her. The following spring, her faith in men restored, she responds to Lincoln's devoted love, and consents to become his wife. Illness soon comes upon her, and in spite of all Lincoln can do to help her, she gets weaker and weaker and soon realizes, as do her friends, that her days on earth are numbered. Lincoln to himself frames the words, "It might have been so wonderful; it was meant not to be." The end comes, and Lincoln in spite of his manly strength can hardly bear his grief. Again his mind reverts to where he sees himself standing out in the snowstorm by her grave, with head bowed low, and an expression of great love on his sad face. The soft light of the log fire gleams playfully on his countenance as his old servant tiptoes in and looks a moment lovingly at his master, but quietly goes out again without disturbing his sleep.
- StarsGeorge SteeleClarence ElmerMargaret MooreThis stirring poem by F. De H. Janvier, tells the story of a brave and overworked young soldier who slept at his post during a critical period in an engagement and was court-martialed and sentenced to death. The picture begins with a scene showing the unfortunate soldier on his pallet of straw on the eve of his projected execution. Before him appears the visions of his New England home, his enlistment amid the cheers of his townsmen, and the farewell with his devoted mother. Then comes the news that his mother is making efforts toward securing his pardon, and failing with the military authorities, she decides upon making a personal appeal to President Lincoln, who was never known to deny audience to anyone with a just cause to plead. Then follows the interview with the great martyr president, who is so deeply moved by the plea of the little mother that he at once orders his carriage and proceeds with her to the scene of execution. Now we are on the parade ground with the regiment ready to witness the awful penalty of a soldier sleeping at his post. The firing party files into line, the prisoner is placed before it, and the commanding officer is about to give the fatal word to fire, when a far off call to "halt" is heard. Turning in the direction of the voice, the onlookers are surprised to see a carriage with horses lashed into a foam, and the commanding form of Lincoln, with outstretched hand demanding, to be heard. He has come just in time, for he orders the release of the prisoner, who rushes into his mother's arms. Then comes the order for an attack, the prisoner takes his place in his company, and bravely atones for his first and only fault, by gallantry of the field, but, in the words of the poem: "The first to fall in the unequal strife, Was he, whom mercy sped to save, When 'justice claimed his life."
- DirectorLangdon WestStarsFrank McGlynn Sr.Nellie GrantCharles SuttonThere is not an American living who does not relish the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln, the martyr President, considered by the majority of writers and men nationally prominent as the greatest American. The sympathy and passions that are stirred up within us by reading of Lincoln are accentuated by the witnessing of the adaptation on the screen. Lincoln's every mannerism, trait and eccentricity are pictured and while looking at it anyone with a drop of American blood in his veins is carried along by the current of innate patriotism and swallowed up at the confluence of many emotions. From the scene in front of the log cabin to the assassination at Ford's Theatre in Washington, one is gripped. Lincoln's courtship culminated in his marriage with Mary Todd. He struggles along in abject poverty until he is nominated for United States Senator. He opposes Stephen Douglas, and it was in his debate that he proved himself not only a rhetorician but a man of wholesome and broad-minded ideas. He was defeated but in 1860 was elected President. What happened subsequently is familiar to all Americans. Lincoln's Gettysburg address, succinct but powerful, is considered one of the gems of oratory.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsMrs. Leslie CarterWilliam E. ShayJ. Farrell MacDonaldMaryland Calvert lives in that section of Maryland divided against itself in the question of secession. Her brother Floyd is so strong a Northern sympathizer that he joins the Federal secret service unknown to his family and enlists in the Southern army to increase his efficiency. Her fiancé, Alan Kendrick, takes a commission in the Federal Army, although his father becomes a general in the Confederate forces. One Thorpe, a discredited Union officer, is given an opportunity to serve the Federal secret service and in that capacity, joins the Confederate army, becoming an aide to General Kendrick, whose headquarters are at the Calvert mansion. Alan Kendrick is among the Northern prisoners taken by the Confederates and when sent for exchange is recognized by Thorpe, whose bitter hatred has been aroused by the part the gallant Unionist had in his former discovery and degradation for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Learning the Federal plans of campaign from Lloyd Calvert, who believes him to be a loyal member of the Federal secret service, he takes advantage of this knowledge to attempt the destruction of the Union camp to which Alan Kendrick has been sent, thereby hoping to encompass Alan's death. Thorpe fails, but Alan, taking a desperate chance to visit Maryland Calvert, is captured in a Confederate uniform and sentenced to death as a spy. Maryland Calvert, hysterical over the death of her brother Lloyd, who was shot down while trying to "run the lines" with information, is unconsciously responsible for Alan's denunciation and conviction as a spy. When she realizes his situation, Maryland braves the hazardous ordeal to reach the Union lines and secures from General Hooker a written request upon General Kendrick to delay Alan's execution until facts may be presented proving his innocence of espionage can be established. Her return finds General Kendrick dead on the battlefield, the treacherous Thorpe in supreme command and Alan imprisoned in a church awaiting momentary execution. When Maryland presents her letter to Thorpe he realizes his supreme opportunity for revenge is at hand. He orders a squad to dispatch Alan and proceeds to force his unwelcome attentions upon Maryland. With her lover standing bound before her awaiting death, Maryland is driven to such a frenzy that she plunges a bayonet into Thorpe. He falls unconscious and she releases Alan, gives him Thorpe's hat and coat as a disguise, and bids him fly for his sake as well as her own. A moment later when Thorpe regains consciousness and orders an alarm sounded. Maryland recalls that the old church-bell is the agreed tocsin. Dashing up the creaking stairs she reaches the highest spot in the belfry and clinging to the enormous clapper swings from it in its dizzy flight, using her frail hands as a muffler to kill all sound. The deaf sexton tolls away at the rope unconscious of the fact his labor is in vain. Maryland is made a prisoner and is about to be executed in her own home, when Alan appears at the head of the Union troops. Thorpe would use her as a shield to compel Alan to fire upon his beloved or abandon the attack, but at the crucial moment he is removed from command by order of General Lee, who has learned of his perfidy. Alan Kendrick grants the Confederates a truce to cover their retreat and the drama ends with a blissful reunion of the lovers.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishMae MarshHenry B. WalthallThe Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
- DirectorJ. Stuart BlacktonWilfrid NorthStarsCharles RichmanL. Rogers LyttonJames MorrisonEnemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The invasion comes, and New York, Washington, and other American cities are devastated.
- DirectorLangdon WestStarsRichard TuckerGertrude McCoyPat O'MalleyWar has been declared. The North and South are going to fight. Tom Weldon joins the army of the North and John Sterrett casts his lot with the Confederacy. Both are suitors for the hand of Bess Howard. Time passes and the war is at its height. Tom Weldon's regiment is stationed in Bess's home town. Tom has been doing sentry duty for forty-eight hours without leave. From sheer exhaustion he falls asleep. He is discovered, tried and sentenced to death for neglect of duty. His only hope lies in a pardon from the President. Mounting a steed, Bess speeds on to Lincoln's headquarters. The President grants the pardon and telegraphs a stay of execution to Tom's camp. The Union wires have been cut and the confederate soldiers are listening in on Union orders. John Sterrett receives the stay of execution as it flashes across the wires. With the wires cut, the message will never reach Tom's camp. Leaping on a horse, John dashes through the Union lines. He reaches Tom's camp, and delivers the message. The execution is stayed until Bess rides in with the pardon, signed by Lincoln. Tom gives John a trinket in token of his gratitude, and in return, John gives him the chevron from his sleeve. Many years have run their course. Magistrate Weldon is holding court, and an old man is brought before him for stealing a loaf of bread. The prisoner is searched, and among his things, the Magistrate sees a familiar trinket. It awakens memories within him, and he begins to speak slowly. Slowly the years begin to unwind themselves again, and the story is unfolded. "He saved my life once," says the Magistrate, "shall I send him to jail for this?" Court is adjourned. Magistrate Tom Weldon is leading his old chum, John Sterrett, home with him. Hereafter, he shall live with him and the old friend, Mrs. Weldon, whom he knew as Bess. Together, they will provide for him, and he shall know need no more.
- DirectorColin CampbellStarsGeorge FawcettMatt SnyderBessie EytonStephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the daughter of his benefactor. But she is loyal to the South and Brice is committed to Lincoln's cause. In the course of the war, their convictions separate them, and Virginia becomes engaged to her cousin Clarence Colfax, a Confederate officer. Brice becomes an officer under General Sherman, and eventually finds himself faced with the captured Colfax, facing execution for spying. Brice must decide whether or not to intercede in his rival's behalf.
- StarsBenjamin ChapinCharles JacksonFirst in Benjamin Chapin's four-film cycle on the life of Abraham Lincoln, this film explores the life of Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks.
- StarsBenjamin ChapinCharles JacksonThe second film in Benjamin Chapin's four-film cycle on the life of Abraham Lincoln, it deals with the life of Lincoln's father, Tom Lincoln.
- StarsBenjamin ChapinCharles JacksonThird in Benjamin Chapin's four-film cycle on the life of Abraham Lincoln, this film explores the young Abe's beginnings as a country lawyer and political figure.
- DirectorLloyd IngrahamStarsMary Miles MinterGeorge PeriolatAllan ForrestA mountain girl with an army-hating father, meets a handsome army captain, who teaches her how to love her country.
- DirectorBenjamin ChapinStarsBenjamin Chapin
- DirectorBenjamin ChapinStarsBenjamin ChapinLincoln's life in the White House at the time Fort Sumter was fired upon is shown, and the many problems he was forced to face at that momentous hour are brought out with great clearness. His calm when surrounded by hot-headed advisers, each one determined that his scheme for saving the Union must be adopted, and the depth of his feeling at thought of a divided nation are clearly indicated by the action of the story and Benjamin Chapin's acting of the President. The human side of Lincoln is amusingly shown by the incidents of his two boys, "Tad" and Robert, when they run away from their lessons and go swimming in a nearby pond. The way their father protects them from the consequences of their prank and helps them to dry their wet clothing before the grate fire furnishes a humorous sidelight on the character of our best loved President.
- DirectorBenjamin ChapinStarsBenjamin ChapinAbraham Lincoln, the boy, defends a funny little black boy accused of stealing a white rooster. After a swift chase, Jim, the black boy, is captured with the fowl under his arm, and he is about to be roughly handled by the angry youths when Abe intervenes and suggests that the trembling captive be given a fair trial by jury.
- DirectorBenjamin ChapinStarsBenjamin ChapinA soldier lying in an unmarked grave recalls to Lincoln the story of how his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, was buried in the wilderness without a funeral, and Lincoln tells of his efforts to get a minister who finally performs the rites.
- DirectorBenjamin ChapinStarsBenjamin ChapinIn the Civil War, Dave Elkin joins up with the rebel forces. He is captured and is taken to Washington and put in a POW camp. There, he kills one of the cruel guards and is sentenced to die for it. But before his execution, Dave's parents appeal directly to president Lincoln for a pardon.
- DirectorBenjamin ChapinStarsBenjamin ChapinDaniel Boone is one of the characters introduced, and a tribe of Indians take part in the action. The way in which the life of Lincoln was intertwined with the Boone family shows that fact is really stranger than fiction. The number has received the same thoroughness of production as the preceding one, and Benjamin Chapin impersonates Lincoln's grandfather as well as the president himself.
- DirectorBenjamin ChapinStarsBenjamin ChapinAbraham Lincoln travels to New Orleans in an unsuccessful attempt to reunite a Negro boy with his mother who was kidnapped in Illinois and sold into slavery.
- DirectorBenjamin ChapinStarsBenjamin ChapinGeorge E. ClarkeMaud GrangerAn episode of the ten-part series "The Son of Democracy", a tribute to Abraham Lincoln. Dramatic film stories of America in the making.
- DirectorBenjamin ChapinStarsBenjamin ChapinIn order to convince a doubtful Kentucky legislature that it should remain loyal to the North and oppose secession, Mr. James tells the Kentucky assembly how Lincoln's grandfather father shed his blood to secure safety and statehood for Kentucky.
- DirectorReginald BarkerStarsBessie BarriscaleEdward CoxenHoward HickmanJeanne Beaufort becomes a secret service agent for the South during the Civil War, to avenge the deaths of her father and brother. While eavesdropping on a meeting of Northern spies, she is captured and forced to wed a masked man who bears a peculiar tattoo on his wrist. Jeanne escapes and soon afterwards, continues her work in Washington, D.C. with the aid of Henry Morgan, who, unknown to Jeanne, is a Northern agent. In Washington, she unwillingly falls in love with John Armitage, a Northerner. In procuring a set of important documents, Jeanne's identity is discovered, and she is forced to escape to Richmond. Morgan, who is revealed as Jeanne's mysterious husband, is killed in a struggle with "Parson" John Kennedy. Richmond is set ablaze, but John rescues Jeanne, and after the war, they forget their differences and marry.
- DirectorJohn W. NobleStarsArnold DalyCharles E. GrahamDuncan McRaePhilip Nolan III refuses to fight for the cause of democracy. His father, Philip Nolan II, who has failed in his efforts to convince his son of the fallacy of arguments, then lays bare all the details of the shameful treason of his own ancestor, the first Philip Nolan, "The Man Without a Country." The father's story shows how the first Philip Nolan played into the hands of Aaron Burr; how Thomas Jefferson was elected president over Burr; how Alexander Hamilton prevented the conscienceless Burr becoming governor of New York; the duel between Hamilton and Burr; how Philip Nolan was later arrested on his wedding night for aiding Burr, who had conspired to start a rival government in the south to wage war against the United States, and how he was later banished from the United States for saying "Damn the United States! I wish I might never hear its name again," and how Philip Nolan died kissing the flag of the country he had execrated. Deeply moved, Philip Nolan III loses no time in joining the boys in khaki.
- DirectorJohn W. NobleStarsLouis DeanHarry DumontCarter B. HarknessAfter a biblical and historical prologue detailing the evolution of the idea of democracy through the creation of the world, the flood, the crucifixion of Christ, the discovery of America, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the Civil War, the present-day threat to this idea by autocratic powers is dramatized. Fritz Schmidt, a German-American steel plant owner, and his son Oscar remain loyal to the Kaiser, while son George fights for the Allies. When the American army hospital where Louisa Schmidt works as a nurse is attacked by the Germans, Oscar, now a German soldier, assaults her, not recognizing his sister in the confusion. George, recovering in the hospital, kills his brother and then returns home to find his mother and a German spy struggling for some secret papers. George kills the spy, Fritz realigns his loyalty to the American cause, and the family is reunited.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsMatheson LangMarie LohrJames CarewA nurse saves a captain from invading Germans and is saved herself when he leads a counterattack.
- DirectorCharles MaigneStarsLionel BarrymoreWilliam P. CarletonFrancis JoynerMilt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsRalph Ince
- DirectorRalph InceStarsRalph InceRobert AgnewMargaret SeddonA Civil War veteran tells two veterans of World War I how he was spared execution through Abraham Lincoln's mercy.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsGeorge A. BillingsDanny HoyRuth CliffordA biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
- DirectorFrank S. MattisonStarsFrank S. MattisonLorraine Eason" - dealing with affairs of two men, drummed out of Army, who are in love with two daughters of Army captain. One becomes a campaigner for Lincoln's election, while other becomes a dishonest trader with the Indians. Affair culminates in an attack upon stockade by Indians, in which hero 'the last white man' left, and affairs are straightened out." - Motion Picture News Booking Guide, 1924.
- DirectorGeorge JeskeStarsStan LaurelEna GregoryJames FinlaysonA satire on the wild and woolly type of western picture. A very straight-shooting rancher, Gabriel Goober, is assailed by bandits. Forced to flee, he becomes sheriff of a nearby town and kills a few hundred of his enemies in open warfare.
- DirectorLambert HillyerStarsFlorence VidorEdmund LoweEmmett KingTwo lovers in a small Maryland town are torn apart by the Civil War: she is loyal to the South while he heads North to join the Federal Army, determined to protect the Union. Eventually his unit arrives in his hometown and he is reunited with his lover, but things aren't the way they used to be.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsEdward HearnPauline StarkeLucy BeaumontEarly in the 19th century, Lieutenant Nolan becomes involved in the Burr conspiracy. When Burr is tried for treason, Nolan refuses to reaffirm his allegiance to the United States and declares openly that he hopes never again to see or hear anything of the United States. He is court-martialed and sentenced to be placed on an American warship, never again to see his native land, or to hear mention of it. Years pass: Nolan is transferred from ship to ship in the Navy and sees action with Decatur at Algiers and later in an encounter with a pirate ship. Nolan's sweetheart, Anne Bissell, appeals in vain to a succession of Presidents to have him pardoned. When the Civil War begins, Nolan is a broken old man, passionate in his love for his country. He is finally pardoned by President Lincoln, but he dies on receipt of the news.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsGeorge O'BrienMadge BellamyCharles Edward BullAfter witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
- DirectorClarence G. BadgerStarsRaymond GriffithMarian NixonVirginia Lee CorbinA southern spy during the Civil War, he must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is complicated by the two sisters, the Indians and a firing squad.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsDolores CostelloJason Robards Sr.Warner Richmond"The Heart of Maryland" (1927) is a silent costume Vitaphone drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars Dolores Costello in the title character and features Jason Robards, Sr.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsJack HoltBetty CompsonPat HarmonDuring the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri guerrilla band, dead or alive. However, he falls in love with her, does not bring her in, and is facing a court-martial.
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsTim McCoyDorothy JanisFrank RiceAt the beginning of the Civil War, as federal troops start to build the first overland telegraph, Indians, who fear the wires, kill some of the linesmen. In response, Major Hammond, who oversees the troops, requests that President Abraham Lincoln send twenty thousand more soldiers to come to his aid. Lincoln grants Hammond's request, and sends along Capt. Allen, who is knowledgeable about Indians. At his new post, Allen discovers that a Confederate spy has been fomenting trouble with the Indians. Allen eventually uncovers the spy, makes peace with the Indians and wins the love of Dorothy, a young woman who lives at the post.