Longstreet at Seven Pines (1911) User Reviews

It is not a matter of the battle at all

[deickemeyer · 13 February 2016]

Here is a love story built around the battle of Seven Pines, though it might have been told of any other battle quite was well. It is not a matter of the battle at all. It is the love story, and that concerns a Union soldier and a Confederate soldier, both of whom loved the same girl. She promised to marry the Confederate, but found she loved the Union man, and even at the altar renounced the man she was to marry and threw herself into the other's arms. Later the Union soldier was taken prisoner and was brought into his former rival's camp. A letter in his pocket told of the birth of a daughter, and even though hatred burns deep in his heart, a vision of the mother and babe arouses his better nature and he exchanges coats with the Union man. The prisoner escapes, but the other is shot by his own men. The novelty is in the bride renouncing the man she intended to marry at the altar. That is sensational and so unusual as to attract attention. - The Moving Picture World, June 24, 1911