In a northern city Robert Williams, an old negro, who by his industry and shrewdness has become well to do, feels an overpowering longing to see once more the places of his youth in Old ... See full summary
A Recent Confederate Victory (1914) Online
In a northern city Robert Williams, an old negro, who by his industry and shrewdness has become well to do, feels an overpowering longing to see once more the places of his youth in Old Virginia, and to his "young master" he recalls vividly a day In '65 when "Old Master," a wounded lion at bay, gave his life in a vain effort to protect his home from looting bushwackers, how his own grandfather, old Uncle Ned, had forced him, shaking with terror, to help conceal and so save from the looters a certain iron box. Then he ran away, following a column of Union soldiers to the North. He did not know that Uncle Ned had died, and that he alone could tell the whereabouts of the iron box. Williams journeys to the South, and eventually arrives at the Fairfax home, where he is kindly welcomed by Clay Fairfax, the former "Young Master," now a middle-aged man, an invalid, and almost in poverty. Of the great estate, only the old house remains. Fairfax has one child, Louise, who loves him with ...
| Cast overview: | |||
 | Bartley McCullum | - | Robert Williams aka Old William |
| Gilbert Ely | - | Old Uncle Ned |
| Howard L. Dorsey | - | Clay Fairfax (as Harry Norman) |
| Doris Heywood | - | Louise |
| Harry Loomis | - | Col. Fairfax |
| Percy Winter | - | Gregg - the Money Lender |
 | John Ince | - | Judd Harvey |
| Jack Delson | - | Ned Ferry |