The Copperhead (1920)

Directors

Charles Maigne

Cast

Anne Cornwall, Arthur Rankin, Doris Rankin, Leslie Stowe, Lionel Barrymore, Richard Carlyle, William P. Carleton

The story

At the beginning of the American Civil War Milt Shanks, who owns a farm in Illinois, is asked by President Abraham Lincoln to join the Copperheads, a clandestine quasi-political organization whose sentiments lie with the South. His family and friends unknowing of his mission call him a traitor. His son later dies in a Civil War battle and his wife dies of heartbreak over the son's death.

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