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- StarsRebecca GrussJack HusseyJoshua BrooksA southern family is torn apart when brothers align with opposing sides as the country heads for war. The past is closer than you think.
- DirectorRandall WallaceStarsLuke BenwardPatrick HeusingerLucien LaviscountA Virginia family becomes divided on the brink of the American Civil War.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsNicole KidmanKirsten DunstElle FanningThe unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsRobert TaylorLouis CalhernPaula RaymondAfter the Civil War, a highly decorated Shoshone Indian veteran plans to raise cattle in Wyoming but white farmers plan to grab fertile tribal lands by pitting the whites against the Indians.
- CreatorJoe GaytonTony GaytonStarsAnson MountColm MeaneyRobin McLeavyThe Civil War is past, but former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon can't put it behind him. Fresh are the memories of the death of his wife, killed at the hands of Union soldiers, an act that sets him on a course of revenge.
- DirectorOtto BrowerDavid BurtonStarsGary CooperLili DamitaErnest TorrenceA young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsRoy RogersGeorge 'Gabby' HayesJulie BishopBill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some Western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
- DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsConnie MasonWilliam KerwinJeffrey AllenSix people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
- DirectorSteve MinerStarsJames Van Der BeekRachael Leigh CookAshton KutcherA ragtag group of youngsters band together after the American Civil War to form the Texas Rangers, a group charged with the dangerous, ruthless duty of cleaning up the West.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsDon AmecheAndrea LeedsAl JolsonMore fictional than factual biography of Stephen Foster. Songwriter from Pittsburgh falls in love with the South, marries a Southern gal (Leeds), then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBugs heads toward the record carrot crop in Alabama but runs into Colonel (Yosemite) Sam who is under orders to let no Yankee cross the Mason-Dixon line.
- DirectorCharles BrabinStarsAugustus PhillipsGertrude McCoyGeorge LesseyThe Lieutenant John Miller, U.S.A., receives a note from his southern sweetheart chiding him for not getting through the enemy's lines to visit her. His pride determines him, and going to his general he asks leave of absence. The general tells Miller that leave of absence will be given him on condition that he purposely gets captured in his fiancée's home with a decoy dispatch on him. Miller refuses, then the general reminds him that his first duty is to the flag. His patriotic appeal decides Miller and he consents. How Miller by a trick gets through the enemy's lines and arrives at his sweetheart's house; how he is tempted; how, by a superhuman effort, he masters himself and sends crashing to the floor a large marble bust which causes his capture; how the decoy note works and the enemy is utterly routed; how the remnant return to avenge themselves on Miller, and are only prevented from shooting him by the strategy of Grace; all these scenes must be witnessed to be appreciated. The closing scene, five years later, is something to be remembered. Picture in your mind a stately colonial mansion, now utterly ruined. Grace's father slumbers by the door. To this scene returns Jack Miller, and he is confronted by Grace, who tells him that however much she may have loved him, she can never forget the suffering he has brought on her and hers.Jack turns to go. He is recalled by the father, who tells him that after all he did his duty as a soldier and the lovers are reunited.
- DirectorDel LordStarsBuster KeatonMatt McHughEddie FetherstonThe handyman is finishing getting the Island Inn Café ready for opening night: it's a speakeasy, and the owner, Louie the Wolf, has been warned by the local mob kingpin, Slugger McGraw, not to open. When Slugger's thugs arrive at the Island Inn, they think the handyman is Louie. Louie promotes this case of mistaken identity, and our poor innocent faces a series of dangerous situations. When he finally learns that the thugs (and Louie) are up to no good, he must think fast to save his neck.
- 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."
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsErrol FlynnAnn SheridanThomas MitchellAfter Mike McComb is booted out of the cavalry, he becomes riverboat gambler and silver mine owner in Nevada.
- DirectorScott WinantStarsReiko AylesworthNadia DajaniJoe Flanigan
- There is a duel in Charlestown at the start of the Civil War and numerous admirably arranged battle scenes, with infantry, cavalry and artillery. Sheridan's famous ride from Winchester is introduced most ingeniously and completely and is followed through the country in a manner sure to arouse patriotic enthusiasm.
- In this story of the Shenandoah Valley, a truthful incident of that beautiful region is narrated. It occurred at a time when General Milroy was in the valley. This officer was hated by the people of that section for the reason that his soldier's committed more depredations than any other command in the army. One day the home of a respectable family was invaded by three drunken soldiers, who among other vile things they did, attempted to desecrate a Confederate flag, which adorned a picture of the lady's deceased husband. She attempted to defend it against the miscreants with her late husband's sword, when at the moment a Union officer rushed in, kicked out the brutal soldiers and restored the insulted flag. By doing this, he won the admiration of the lady and her beautiful daughter. In revengeful spirits, the soldiers traitorously gave information to the Southern camp which brought a host of Confederates on the scene. Their leader was not liked by either of the ladies of the household. In the presence of the Union officer, the young daughter was given the alternative of marrying the Confederate leader or seeing the Union officer shot in an hour. Before the hour arrived, however, the bird had flown, and the volley fired into the room where he had been "trussed up" found lodgement in his old clothes, which had lied to deceive the wily guards. A negro and his "lady love" play important parts in the unfolding of the plot and their grotesque actions are laughable.
- DirectorKenean BuelStarsHenry HallamGuy CoombsHarry F. MillardePart One: Constance, the second wife of General Haverhill, befriends the officer's son, Frank, who has been ostracized. On the night of April 12th, 1861, she gives a ball at Charleston, S.C. Frank gets word to Mrs. Haverhill that he is hiding in the city. The father will not be reconciled, but sends the boy a miniature of Constance. At the ball are Col. Kerchival West and his sister, Madeline, Robert Illingham and his sister, Gertrude. Fort Sumter is fired upon and Illingham declares his allegiance to the Confederacy. He is deeply in love with Madeline West, whose brother fondly admires Gertrude. Capt. Thornton insults Mrs. Haverhill and is called upon to fight a duel with West. Through a peculiar circumstance General Haverhill suspects Colonel West. Frank enlists in his father's regiment under another name. He has grown a beard and is not recognized. One year later the Confederates make a night attack on the Federals and Frank is made prisoner. Capt. Thornton, in the Confederate service, takes Constance's miniature from the captive at Richmond. Frank and several companions make a daring escape. Part Two: In 1863 the Federal army invades the Shenandoah Valley. Col. West accompanies General Haverhill, who makes headquarters at the Illingham home. Madeline West comes to visit Gertrude. The sweethearts are brought together but Gertrude will not acknowledge her love for the gallant Col. West. An expedition is sent to capture a Confederate signal tower, with Frank Haverhill in command. He loses his life in the perilous undertaking. Later Col. Illingham is captured, but is granted parole by his old friend. Col. West. West secures the miniature from Thornton, when the latter is captured, but later he is wounded by Thornton and General Haverhill is more embittered than ever when he finds the picture on West's person. Part Three: The Confederates have planned an attack on the Federals during the absence of General Phil Sheridan. A terrific battle is waged, in which Col. West is taken prisoner. Twenty miles away, Sheridan hears the cannonading and makes a wild dash toward Winchester, to assume command. The Federals are unable to withstand the fearful assault and flee in panic. Sheridan arrives, rallies his men and thwarts the enemy. Gertrude becomes a second Evangeline in her search for Col. West. She finally locates him just as he is released from prison and they visit a little church near the battlefield. In 1865 General Haverhill visits his wife in Washington, still thinking her unfaithful. Gertrude arrives and delivers to Constance and Frank's widow a message which was written in his last hour. The general is brought to a realization of his wife's nobility.
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsTom SelleckSam ElliottDominique DunneAfter the Civil War, two brothers demobilized from the army return home and must rescue certain relatives who have been kidnapped by a band of renegade Confederates.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsBuster KeatonDorothy ApplebyRichard FiskeBuster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsTim HoltGail DavisHugh BeaumontWhen the telegraph line is sabotaged before completion, Tim Holt and his sidekick Chito investigate.
- DirectorJason KiefteStarsAndy MaloneKyle McGibbon
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsBuster KeatonMonte CollinsHarley WoodA man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
- DirectorGlen PitreStarsEric BraedenBilly ZaneCarol AltA dozen years after the Civil War, former slaves go on strike at a powerful judge's plantation.
- DirectorErnest CollingStarsMargaret HayesDorothy EmeryMadeline LeeLouisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
- DirectorWilliam CorriganStarsZina BethuneJeannie CarsonJoel GreyLouisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
- StarsMeredith BaxterSusan DeyAnn DusenberryLouisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken woman for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
- DirectorHarley KnolesStarsIsabel LamonDorothy BernardLillian HallJo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family to write about.
- DirectorAlexander ButlerStarsDaisy BurrellMary LincolnMinna GreyThe lives and loves of four sisters during their pastor father's absence.
- DirectorAlfred SantellStarsRichard BarthelmessMolly O'DayNelson McDowellAn orphan (Richard Barthelmess) is adopted by Major Buford (Claude Gillingwater) is educated in Lexington and joins the Union Army as a Captain. He rediscovers his childhood sweetheart (Molly O' Day) and after his adopted father dies in the civil war, he gives up his inheritance in Kentucky for the girl he loves and moves back to be to his real birthplace to be with her.
- DirectorAlan J. LeviStarsJeff OsterhageCarl FranklinRobert DaviDuring the American Civil War, after his family is killed by Confederate raider William Quantrill, a young farmer seeks the help of a famous gunfighter in order to exact revenge on Quantrill.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsWilliam BoydMarguerite De La MotteJack HoxieImpoverished by the Civil War and eager to replenish his fortune in the West, Colonel Halliday, his wife, and his daughter, Beth, proceed toward Salina, Kansas by wagon train, at the persuasion of Tom Kirby, a government scout and Beth's fiancé. Although Bill Hickok, Tom's friend, and a company of cavalry are in charge, Pawnee Killer, chief of the Sioux, attacks the wagon train, and Halliday and his wife are killed. Bill rides to Salina for help and to deliver the news to Buffalo Bill Cody. Beth, now hostile to Kirby, joins the household of Lige Morris, a trader in Salina, and, at the suggestion of Bill, Kirby joins General Custer's scouting expedition. Lige tells Beth that Kirby is suspected of being in league with Pawnee Killer, but she learns from the post adjutant's daughter that he loves her. Beth seeks out Kirby just as the Sioux stampede a herd of buffalo through the town, and together they find refuge. Custer gives battle to the Indians, Pawnee Killer slays Lige, and the lovers are reconcile.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsVictor MatureGuy MadisonRobert PrestonA trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable Sioux force.
- DirectorMelvin FrankStarsJeff ChandlerFess ParkerNicole MaureyBefore the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsTommy Lee JonesJohn GoodmanPeter SarsgaardA detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of ghostly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.
- 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.
- DirectorTom TerrissStarsCatherine CalvertCrane WilburFelix KrembsWhen the Civil War breaks out, Alan Kendrick, an army officer born in the South, stays in the army to fight for the Union, but his sweetheart Maryland sides with the South. She soon discovers that Alan was captured by Confederates in a battle near her home and is to be executed. Although he's fighting for her enemy, she can't bring herself to let him be killed and devises a plan to help him escape.
- 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.
- DirectorDavid AylottStarsDavid AylottAnita MarchA corporal is shot while saving a wounded rival from Zulus.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsVince EdwardsSylvia SymsBenjamin EdneyDuring the Civil War, ex-parson Josiah Galt and his sons are Confederate raiders but they become common robbers after the war, save for son David who goes straight.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsRandolph ScottClaire TrevorGlenn FordA wanted outlaw arrives in town to rob a bank that has already been held up! His past and his friendship with the sheriff land them both in trouble.
- DirectorJon AmielStarsLauren AmbroseWes RamseyChristopher BackusA widow resorts to desperate measures to protect her three children and her land during the Civil War.
- DirectorRon MaxwellStarsFrançois ArnaudLucy BoyntonCasey Thomas BrownAn Upstate New York family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
- DirectorFrederick De CordovaStarsAudie MurphyJoan EvansRobert SterlingBefore the Civil War, Lt. Jed Sayre's efforts to conciliate the cavalry and the Navajo are undermined by his racist C.O. and Confederate sympathizers.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsRoy RogersGeorge 'Gabby' HayesPauline MooreTrouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsFord SterlingMabel NormandHenry LehrmanCohen is a sergeant in the Union Army and the bitter rival of another officer for the attentions of Rebecca. Like most burlesque Jewish characters of this period, this caricature borders on anti-Semitism. Yet Cohen is also the hero of the film.
- DirectorMark GriffithsStarsKelly PrestonBo HopkinsDan HaggertyAn interracial love story, set in the turbulent wild west, stirs up tensions between the Indians and the settlers.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsGiuliano GemmaDan VadisJosé CalvoCaptured Confederate raider Gary Diamond agrees to work with the Yankees to prevent any further bloodshed by warning a Confederate regiment against attacking heavily defended Yankee Fort Yuma.
- DirectorJohn A. AlonzoStarsElizabeth MontgomeryCliff PottsMichael CavanaughBelle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys.
- One of the brightest examples of true patriotism was exhibited by a woman in a most remarkable manner during the Civil War. The heroine was Barbara Frietchie. It occurred in the town of Frederick, Md., where every household was divided in its sympathies. George Mason, whose mother was a Frietchie, was an ardent Unionist, but his brother William was strong for secession. Virginia Iredale loved George, but her sentiments were opposed to his. This gave William a footing with her which he strove to improve by every means in his power. It was about the time of General Lee's prospective invasion of the North. In accordance with that idea. General Stonewall Jackson had turned the faces of his men northward. Everywhere in Maryland he was acclaimed with joy, though not so vociferously as further south. Jackson met with no hostile demonstrations, though thousands were so inclined. In the big town of Frederick, there was not one protest against the Confederate invasion, but stay! there was one, a dear old lady of eighty years, whose great big loyal heart led her to do an act of heroism that was sublime! Jackson, at the head of his hosts, entering Frederick that balmy September day, beholds the starry flag floating from a modest brick dwelling. Others have seen it, too. A score of muskets belch forth as one shot and the Stars and Stripes hang by a cord from the shattered flagpole. In a flash the window is raised, framing therein an aged but sweet face. A pair of feeble hands grasp the broken pole and once more the Stars and Stripes defiantly flutter. Then are uttered those well-remembered words: "Shoot if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country's flag." The butts of a hundred muskets leap to the shoulders of the Gray Coats, but the next instant the stentorian tones of brave General Jackson ring out: "Attention! Who touches a hair of yon gray head dies the death of a dog!" Then with a salute, he and his men marched on. Barbara Frietchie belonged to history. This glorious act decided Virginia Iredale as to her course in love and politics. Virginia thought she loved her Southland more than the Union, but when she saw the old flag waving in Aunt Barbara's hand, she knew at once where her real sympathies were, and as a result of this decision, her fair head found a resting place on the broad and manly bosom of George Mason.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsAudie MurphyMichael DanteBen CooperWhen Quantrill's (Quantrell) gang is almost destroyed two of the captured members agree to join the Arizona Rangers to help finish the job.
- DirectorFred F. SearsStarsBill WilliamsRichard JaeckelAlex MontoyaAfter the Civil War, government envoys organize a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas but Mexican bandits and Apache renegades plan to steal the cattle and a secret shipment of Henry repeating rifles.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsJoseph CottenNorma BengellJulián MateosA Southern Colonel, his three sons and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the Colonel plans to revive the Confederacy.
- DirectorRichard SchenkmanStarsBill Oberst Jr.Kent IgleheartRhianna Van HeltonWhile the Civil War rages on, President Abraham Lincoln must undertake an even more daunting task - destroying the Confederate Undead.
- DirectorArmand MastroianniStarsMaxwell CaulfieldNichelle NicholsTalia BalsamNichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a town of confederates. The corpses of the dead soldiers rise up to wreak revenge.
- CreatorJim ByrnesAlbert S. RuddyStarsJames ArnessBruce BoxleitnerKathryn HolcombThe Macahans, a family from Virginia, headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West.
- DirectorBreck EisnerStarsMatthew McConaugheyPenélope CruzSteve ZahnMaster explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.
- DirectorJohn GeddesStarsBrian CoxMark GibsonDee WallaceA young man's struggle to survive in the aftermath of a deadly undead outbreak during the American Civil War.
- CreatorLisa Quijano WolfingerDavid ZabelStarsMcKinley Belcher IIISuzanne BertishNorbert Leo ButzFollows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.
- DirectorSteven PerosStarsRobin WeigertAnthony CarriganJay O. SandersSeduced by the ghost of a Civil War soldier, Barbara Haughton creates a love that is undying.
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsCandice BergenPeter StraussDonald PleasenceAfter a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsFred LawrenceJane BryanFritz LeiberSet in the springtime of 1863 in Chancellorsville, Virginia during the War Between the States, this colorful short profiles the heroic Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson the night before he would meet his fate in battle.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsSmith BallewHeather AngelLeRoy MasonA Westerner in the Union Army discovers that gold shipments from the West are being captured by Southerners.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsGeorge BackusRosemary HillMartha MansfieldAs the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsJohn LundBrian DonlevyAudrey TotterLaying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.
- DirectorLaurence TrimbleStarsJane CowlOrme CaldaraHarry SpinglerGeorgina asks permission from her old aunt, Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl, to marry Capt. Nugent before his departure for France. Patricia refuses and, in reply to Georgina's questioning, gives her a diary from her own girlhood to read. The diary unfolds the story of Patricia's marriage to soldier Anthony Vanderpyl. Returning on furlough after the outbreak of the Civil War, Anthony suddenly leaves Patricia to visit Mrs. Le Roy, an old flame, and is killed by her jealous husband. Positive that Anthony had been unfaithful to her, Patricia refuses to open the letter that her husband sent her on the day of his death. Georgina now opens it and discovers that Anthony had gone to Mrs. Le Roy to end the affair that his brother Bentley was having with her. With this revelation, Patricia sanctions her niece's marriage, then dies, joining Anthony in "the spreading dawn".
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsWilfred LucasClaire McDowellDorothy WestA poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter. During the Civil War she helps him escape capture by Union soldiers. After the war, with his fortune gone, she confesses that she loves him.
- DirectorNoel M. SmithStarsDick ForanSmokePaula StoneSent by President Lincoln to prevent an outlaw band from hampering the war effort, secret agent Red Colton is ambushed and his identity papers stolen, setting him up to be accused by the local army commander of being a traitor. An unknown second agent and a secret password are his only hope of clearing his name and exposing the real culprits.
- DirectorNell CoxStarsMary Kay PlaceCharles S. DuttonHarris YulinThe story of Civil War Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew (aka Crazy Bett) as told by her niece.
- DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsMonte HalePamela BlakePaul HurstDuring the Civil War many Trailhead ranchers have been killed or driven from their land by a ruthless gang of raiders. The secret leader of the gang is Bill Sanger (James Nolan), who poses as a rancher but is actually the head man of an eastern syndicate seeking to buy up the land through which railroads will be constructed at the war's end. Learning the newspaper publisher John Thornton (Jason Robards Sr.)has received a letter giving away the agenda of Sanger, and the latter kills Tornton, and then manages to cast the suspicion of the gang activities upon the dead man and his son, Frank (Jay Kirby) whom the gang has kidnapped. U. S. Marshal Monte Hale (Monte Hale)is convinced of the Thronton's innocence but finds himself opposed by the citizens and ranchers with the exception of Eli Walker (Paul Hurst), and Cathy Thornton (Pamela Blake), daughter of John and sister of Frank.
- DirectorEmma DavisStarsKevin LeslieDominic GravilleJamie Benedict SavageIn the American Civil War, two soldiers have deserted the Confederate Army.
- DirectorJohn EnglishStarsGene AutryChampionGail DavisDuring the Civil War, McQuarrie leads guerrilla raiders, Gene and Cougar serve as Union scouts stationed in Utah.
- DirectorJ. Charles HaydonStarsHenry B. WalthallAntoinette WalkerAnne LeighDavid Whiting belongs to a fine old aristocratic family of the south and is an officer in the United States Army. He believes in the Union and he is opposed to slavery. When the Civil War breaks out he frees his personal slaves and joins his regiment to fight for the north. His brother, Walker, is an honorable man, but hot-headed and impetuous, the opposite of his brother. He joins the southern army fighting against his brother. Edith Whiting, the sister, and her parents are extremely bitter over David's defection. The play opens shortly before the Civil War, when David is visiting his home with a friend and brother officer, Jack Spencer, who is engaged to Edith. Edith quarrels with Spencer over their differences in principles and returns his engagement ring. David is in love with Ruth Tyler. During the war the Whiting family, deserted by the slaves, have a hard time to make ends meet, and borrow from a professional money-lender, Thomas Spicer, giving mortgages on their property. Spicer is anxious that his son be recognized by the better class of people. He is ambitious for him to marry Edith Whiting. Edith always spurns him, even though word reaches her that Spencer has been killed. After the war David, now a colonel, returns to his home town with his troops as military commander of the district. He pays off the debts on the plantation and saves his sister from further humiliation at the hands of Spicer. A few days afterward Spicer is found murdered. Walker Whiting is found leaning over the body. A gun belonging to Walker is found by the man's side. It is well known that there was bitter feeling between Walker and Spicer, so he is arrested and accused of the murder. It devolves on David to court-martial and try his own brother. However, Rufus, a slave, confesses he killed Spicer because he once horsewhipped him. Although David had done all of this and much more for his family, had restored order and saved the residence from great humiliation and outrage, both his family and all his old friends are still cold to him. The sting of victory comes when the woman he had long loved, Ruth Tyler, rejects him and throws herself into the arms of his brother. David has won the fight for his principles, but lost the girl.
- DirectorBenjamin ChapinStarsBenjamin Chapin
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHarry CareyMolly MaloneVester PeggA man declined admission to fight in the American Civil War joins a gang of marauders and winds up as a fugitive.
- DirectorStanner E.V. TaylorStarsMarion LeonardA woman realizes that her son is following the same path of corruption pursued by her father, a Civil War traitor, and her husband, an embezzler.
- 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."
- DirectorGrace CunardFrancis FordStarsErnest ShieldsEddie BolandLionel BradshawSHERIDAN'S PRIDE An amusing take-off on "Sheridan's Ride" so famous in war history. The way to Winchester is rough and rocky and a one-lunged auto (that he is riding in) gives out and leaves the doughty general in the mud. (He calls for reinforcements and) an elephant pulls the contraption out and the warrior again forges to the front only to meet with more laughable mishaps.
- DirectorLeslie FentonStarsGlenn FordEdmond O'BrienRhonda FlemingFramed for murder during the Civil War, Gil Kyle's only alibi is Confederate agent Candace Bronson who he must track down in dangerous territory filled with foes.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsRay TaylorStarsDennis MooreWanda McKayLionel AtwillDuring the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. In the first chapter, "Murder By Accident", Captain Steve Clark (Dennis Moore), is recognized as a Union Secret Service agent by Morel's accomplice Trina Dessard (Virginia Christine), and, with his friend Idaho Jones (Joe Sawyer), is ambushed in the baggage car and sent to almost certain death when the car is un-coupled and plunges down the mountainside. Leaping to safety, in order to be around for the next 12 chapters, Idaho and Steve report to Colonel Sewell (Addison Richards) in Oro Grande, and Idaho introduces himself as a Wells Fargo detective to Cathy Haines (Wanda McKay), the Oro Grande company agent. Steve and Idaho learn that the Morel raiders are only posing as Confederates, and their headquarters are at Morel's "Golden Eagle" saloon. In a raid on the hideout, Steve's brother Jim (Gene Garrick) is killed by the gang. The next victim is Confederate Army Captain Clay Randolph (Regis Toomey) who has discovered that Morel is connected with a group of Prussian spies and gives Steve a clue before he dies. The clue leads Steve to a San Francisco dive owned by Abel Rackerby (Charles Wagenheim), who, thinking he has Steve in his power, exposes the ring's activities and operation methods. Aided by the San Francisco Secret Service, Steve escapes and returns to Oro Grande, where in Chapter 13, "Golden Vengeance", he and Idaho round up the spies.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsSidney OlcottRobert G. VignolaJ.J. ClarkUnion raiders infiltrate Confederate territory by train.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancIn the American Civil War, Tweety is determined to get a message to General Lee, but Sylvester has been deployed to stop him.
- DirectorFred HolmesStarsSummer SelbyDavid KingReg GrantShe was 29 years old, and a slave. She'd never been to school and could not read or write. She had been beaten, abused, and humiliated. Except for the few square miles around her home, she knew nothing of the outside world. One spring evening in 1849, she boldly entered into a world she had never seen, in search of a place she'd never been, hoping to find something she'd never known: freedom. Her name was Harriet Tubman and her nickname was Moses.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsSteve CochranDiane BrewsterLeo GordonA Civil War guerilla gang plans an attack on a Kansas arsenal.
- DirectorJohn InceStarsJohn InceBetty BriceRobert WhittierColonel Robert Carey, a young southerner, and Lucretia Gray, his sweetheart, have a lovers' quarrel, and before they could make up he is ordered to the front. Foolish pride keeps the lovers silent and a year passes. Carey is on the staff of General Jackson, and has become famed for his reckless courage. Lorena, ardent for the Southern cause, and seeking forgetfulness of her unhappy love affair, has entered the Confederate secret service, and is ordered to report to General Jackson. As she approaches Jackson's headquarters, the sound of a cannon tells her that a fierce battle is in progress. Jackson has ordered the demolition of a bridge over Cold Creek. The Union general at the same time orders a brigade to cross the bridge and attack Jackson. The Confederates succeed in mining the bridge, but are driven off before they can explode their mine. Carey volunteers to swim down the stream, the only possible method of approach, and explode the mine, though this will entail his certain death. In making the attempt he is badly wounded by a sharp-shooter and cannot proceed. He is found by Lorena and a joyous reconciliation takes place. Carey, however, soon remembers his mission, the failure of which will mean a crushing defeat to the South, but he is helpless by reason of his wound. Lorena proposes to go in his stead, and though he knows he is sending her to certain death, he gives to his cause far more than his own life, and bids her go. Lorena reaches the mine under the bridge piers as the Union brigade is pouring across, and fires into the loose powder with the revolver Carey has given her. Her life is the price she pays for the victory. Through the bloody years that follow, Carey is ever in the forefront of the battle, but the swift death for which he longs passes him by. After the war Carey lives on through the lonely, weary years. At last, half a century after the day on which his real life ended, he makes his way to the grave of his girlish sweetheart, and falls asleep, to find the weary waiting done.
- 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.
- DirectorKieth MerrillStarsDavid KelseyCharles BowdenJim S. CashFollows several generations of a family in the Missouri Ozarks.
- DirectorRebecca Sutera TullochStarsElisa FordKaeleen TaylorJason Louis KladivaThe story of a young Southern women's adventure to rescue her husband from a Union Civil War POW camp, Camp Douglas, in Chicago in the fall of 1862.
- DirectorRupert JulianStarsFrancelia BillingtonRupert JulianZoe RaeTwo families had been neighbors in the South for years; Maud, her brother Howard, and Cecil Lane were playmates. One day as they were playing on the lawn the fathers of Maud and Cecil betroth their children in a bumper of wine. Shortly thereafter Cecil's father loses his fortune through poor speculation and commits suicide. Maud is sent away to school. Cecil begins a musical education, remaining at home and growing up to be the village music teacher. Years later Maud returns home, and soon her brother Howard arrives with a foppish friend, Lord Lovelace, who straightaway lays siege to Maud's heart. Maud and Cecil meet at the village shrine and renew their childhood love. Against her will Maud consents to a betrothal with Lord Lovelace. On the night of the betrothal party Maud and Cecil plan to elope, but their arrangements are discovered and thwarted, a duel between Cecil and Howard developing with in the hour. Maud hears the shots fired, and beholding her brother slightly wounded sends Cecil away in anger. He leaves the village under the impression that Howard will die. Cecil goes far away, and in a great city his musical talents are recognized. Maud, meanwhile, in contrition, would have Cecil return to her, but he keeps his mother poorly informed and Maud is unable to get word to him. When Cecil composes the song, "Come Into the Garden, Maud," his fame is assured. At this time war breaks out and Cecil, Lord Lovelace and Howard become soldiers, eventually meeting on the battlefield. Lord Lovelace knows of Cecil's song and his great fame as its composer, and at the moment he is about to die of his wounds, Lord Lovelace sends word to Cecil, that Maud is waiting for Cecil in the garden. Believing that Cecil has been killed in battle at the same time her brother Howard and Lord Lovelace die of their wounds, Maud decides to dedicate her life to religion and enters a convent. When Cecil ultimately comes home he is too late to reach Maud with any communication. He spends the rest of his life in sorrow going every day to the convent walls and playing his famous song that Maud might hear and know that he thus awaits the final end, faithful to his childhood sweetheart.
- DirectorLewis D. CollinsStarsTex RitterFuzzy KnightDennis MooreOklahoma Raiders is yet one more Betty Burbridge re-working of an original Bennett Cohen story ("Come on Danger,1932", "The Renegade Ranger, 1938", "Come On Danger, 1942" and "Alias Billy the Kid, 1946" among a couple of other uses), usually commissioned by Cohen or Oliver Drake as Associate Producers of whichever version they were involved with. In this one, the hero is an investigator sent by the U.S. Army rather than the Texas Rangers, but the roots show quickly. During the Civil War, Union Army Lieutenant Steve Nolan and Corporal Banjo Bonner are assigned to trail and capture "El Vengador/The Avenger", outlaw leader whose band is stealing herds of wild horses before they can be delivered on contract to the Army. Disguised as an unshaven, seedy cowpuncher, Steve arrives in Benton, Oklahoma territory and witnesses the robbery of the post office by Duggan and Higgins, henchmen of Arnold Drew, who holds the contract to deliver the horses. Steve stops the two robbers but is wounded by the unseen Drew. The townspeople assume the unconscious Steve is part of the gang, and judge Clem Masters instructs a deputy to take Steve to the next town to have his head-wound treated. Drew orders Duggan and Higgins to ambush the wagon and kill Steve, but they shoot the deputy instead, and the team runs away with the helpless Steve. He is dumped over an embankment just as Donna Ross, Todd Wingate and Boone Talbot arrive on the scene. Donna takes Steve to a hideout in the mountains, where she is revealed as El Vengador, leading a group of dispossessed ranchers against Drew and land agent James Prescott, who have illegally taken over the rancher's lands, so they can take over the contract of furnishing the horses. Steve is nursed back to health by Donna and returns clean-shaven to Benton to gather evidence against the Drew/Prescott gang, but Donna and Todd think he is a spy who has betrayed them.
- DirectorWhitney HamiltonStarsDana BennisonRebecca DamonGerry GreenOn the day of her engagement, Grace Kieler finds her family and fiancé divided on political matters. With her future husband off to join the Union army and her brother vowing loyalty to the Confederates, she is torn. She promises her father that she will protect and care for her brother. Upon her father's death Grace decides to cut her hair, don her brother's clothes, and take his name to join the ranks of the Rebel army. She must find him and keep him from getting killed. Along the way, she meets Virginia Klaising, a widow and mother grieving the death of her only son. Virginia begins to fall for this Rebel 'boy' as they travel the backwoods avoiding both armies trying to get back home. By the same turn, Henry (Grace) finds himself comforted by this unfortunate woman. Together they are able to mend the wounds that tear the underpinnings of the heart. As love blooms and the secret becomes harder to conceal, the two realize that they have something precious---an unspoken candor that reveals the soul. When Henry is shot and brought back from most certain death, the secret is revealed and yet the bond grows stronger. After living through such brutal loss and watching the carnality of war unfold before them, they realize they only have each other. And yet it is more than enough. It is the balm that soothes---the quiet whisper that comforts. Each becomes a beacon in a time of great darkness, though their journey is short-lived as each must reach a destination without the other.
- DirectorWilfred LucasBess MeredythStarsViolet MersereauBarbara GilroyEdmund Burns"Wild Cat" Betsey Dawley, whose father "Handsome Harry" was disowned by the proud Dawley family of Greenburgh, Kentucky, meets and thoroughly charms her snobbish cousin Virginia's fiance John Davidson at a picnic. At the start of the Civil War, John becomes a Union officer, while Betsey and her father staunchly defend the South. When Confederate Colonel Morgan, the leader of the intrepid band known as "Morgan's Men," commissions a young horseman to deliver an important message to the Dawley mansion, the rider is shot and Betsey takes his place, breaking through the lines and successfully accomplishing the mission. Later, she again demonstrates her courage by rescuing her wounded father from Davidson's men, but in the process, she is caught by a Northern spy. Davidson saves her, and after the war, they are united.
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsTim McCoyDorothy SebastianWheeler Oakman"Dan Claibourne ( Tim McCoy ) refuses to fight against his state when Tennessee secedes during the Civil War preliminaries. His sweetheart brands him a traitor. Dan joins Morgan's raiders of the Confederate Army and gets an opportunity to rescue the girl during a raid." "Motion Picture News Booking Guide," in Motion Picture News, 15 Apr 1930.
- DirectorJoseph GleasonStarsGladys LeslieCharles KentArthur DonaldsonTo receive the $5,000 promised in her Uncle Stephen's will, Dulcie Culpepper must live with her Uncle John in New York for six months so that her father, a Confederate colonel, will be reconciled with his brother whose marriage to a Northern woman long ago caused a breach. Although Dulcie finds Uncle John friendly, his second wife and stepson Orrin treat her coldly. After Dulcie fakes having a sprained ankle to get Orrin's attention, she succeeds in winning his affection. Her Aunt John, who wants Orrin to marry a wealthy girl, schemes for Dulcie to marry a middle-aged man, but when she discovers that, according to a codicil in the will, Dulcie will inherit $500,000, Aunt John virtually throws Orrin at Dulcie. After Dulcie learns of the inheritance she thinks that Orrin's interest was influenced by the money, and returns home heartbroken, but after her "Mammy" brings Orrin and Uncle John South, the brothers reconcile, and Dulcie accepts Orrin's love as sincere.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsBrock PetersChristian JuttnerCharles CourtlandDuring the Civil War, five children from a Union family are held hostage by Confederate soldiers. A wounded Union soldier (who happens to be black) takes refuge in the barn of the place the children are being held. They discover him and secretly nurse him back to health while they plan a daring escape.
- DirectorPhilip FordStarsMonte HalePaul HurstGail DavisYoung Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy.