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A picture that opens, as far as its action is concerned, with a few war scenes just after Lee's surrender. The hero, a C.S.A. colonel (Hobart Bosworth), refuses to take the oath of fealty to the Union, and, with his little daughter, escapes to a strange country where he raises the Stars and Bars and lives an exile. The picture's object is to work up, with increasing patriotic fervor, to a climax in which the Stars and Stripes can be shown gladly waving on the staff above the reconstructed colonel's house. To accomplish this, a United States consul with his son are introduced, and a love match made between the colonel's daughter and the young man. The fervor is created by making the inhabitants hate the Americans, by a riot, in which the flag is dishonored, by making the fiery colonel leap into the breech for the flag that once had been his, and finally by bringing a great United States dreadnought across the sea, and by having the white uniformed tars save not only the Stars and Stripes, but the Stars and Bars, too. The colonel was won by love, and himself hoisted the Stars and Stripes. The picture gets over, but it has too many unconvincing smaller things to be called a big picture. The camera work is only so-so. Because of its quality, it will be liked. It was applauded on Broadway. - The Moving Picture World, June 15, 1912