"Col. John Roberts, C.S.A., returning to his Virginia home to assume command of the critical situation in that neighborhood, finds that, during his absence, the Yankees have appropriated for their own uses, everhthing eatable on the plantation and that his wife, baby girl, and colored maid, are facing starvation. Mrs. Roberts, weak from hunger, becomes ill and the Colonel sends for a doctor, who prescribes "good, wholesome food, to be taken three times a day." Roberts is called away at this moment, and the prescription falls to the ground unnoticed by all except "Baby Betty."
The child, with intuitive understanding of the situation, picks up the paper, and, with a Confederate flag over her shoulder, starts for the Yankee's headquarters, which is near at hand. Unknown to her mother and "Aunt Cleo," the baby makes her way through the northern lines and finds her way into Colonel Howard's camp. That gentleman, big-hearted Yankee that he is, reads the prescription, and, with thoughts of his own dear ones at home, orders one of his men to carry a large basket of provisions through the lines to Betty's home.
The following day both armies line up opposite each other at the edge of a nearby clearing to engage in battle. They are about to open fire when suddenly the attention of everyone is arrested by a little figure in white sleeping peacefully in the center of the battlefield. A truce is called and the two commanders ride out to investigate the embarrassing situation. They find that the sleeping child is "Baby Betty," who has unconsciously halted the impending conflict. Realizing that there can be no fighting that day, the commanders agree upon an armistice and each army retires amid cheers for "Baby Betty," the little rebel."
Moving Picture World Apr-June 1912 p.1258