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1861. SPRING. SOUTH CAROLINA. PLANTATION PREPARATIONS FOR MASTER OF HOUSE DEPARTURE TO WAR. FARM WORKERS STOP WORKING. OLD GENERAL WITH WIFE. SAD ABOUT HIM GOING TO WAR. WIFE CRIES. MEN ARRIVE ON HORSEBACK, COME UP PLANTATION LAND. MANSION. SOUTHERN BELLE. ALL THE MEN TIP THEIR HATS. SLAVES IN GROUP OUTSIDE BOW TO MASTER.
BLACK BUTLER WITH TRAY OF DRINKS FOR THE MEN. CEREMONIAL TOAST. CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS. GENERAL LIES ARMY CAMP. ROBERT E. LEE, SOLDIERS CHEER. BACK HOME THE WOMAN CUT UP CURTAINS AND RUGS FOR BLANKETS. MISTRESS BEING DRIVEN IN CARRIAGE. SLAVES GET THEIR WEEKLY FOOD RATIONS. CARRY BASKETS ON THEIR HEADS. COMING OUT OF SUPPLY FARM. LOADING SOCKS ON WAGON FOR SOLDIERS. FEDERAL RAID UPCOMING.
FAMILY LEAVES PLANTATION FOR SAFER REFUGEE. MISTRESS SAYS GOODBYE TO SLAVES. FAMILY GOES DOWN STEPS INTO WAITING ROWBOATS. SLAVES WAVE FAREWELL. PINEVILLE FAMILY ARRIVES BY WAGON. OCTOBER 1864. MAN GIVES SLAVE THE KEY TO SUPPLY BARN. DANCING. SLAVE SHACKS. SPREADING RUN OF FREEDOM TO THE SLAVES. FAITHFUL BLACK BUTLER UPSET. WOMEN RETURNS TO PLANTATION. DOG PLAYING IN POND. SLAVES REFUSE TO SUPPLY FOOD TO SOUTHERN SOLDIERS. TROUBLE BREWING. CU SLAVE HOLDING FIDDLE. TACTFUL PLANNING. CHEERING. ASKS FOR KEY BACK FROM REBEL SLAVE. SLAVE ELUCTIANTLY AGREES. ENTERS HOUSE BY CANDLELIGHT. SLAVES DANCE OUTSIDE BY BONFIRE. SLAVE HIDING IN BUSHES SMILES. SETS BARN ON FIRE. SLAVES GO RUNNING FROM HOMES. SLAVES ESCAPING ON BOAT. WOMAN HORRIFIED. HEROIC WOMAN WORK FOR THE MEN ON THE FRONT. CROWD OF WOMAN ON PORCH SEWING. INJURED SOLDIERS COME HOME. FIGHTING AT PETERSBURY. GENERAL GETS NOTE FROM SCOUT. SALUTE. HORSE PAWS AROUND. SOLDIERS RIDE OFF. CLOUDS OF SMOKE FROM GUN FIRE, CANNON FIRE. MAN SHOT OFF HORSE. WOMEN ARRANGE PARTY, DANCE FOR SOLDIERS THAT ARE ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE. ROMANTIC COUPLE ON OUTSIDE PORCH. RECEIVES TELEGRAM OF HIS BROTHER'S DEATH. KILLED IN ACTION. MAN COMFORTS WOMAN. SQUARE DANCING CELEBRATION. SON TELLS MOTHER THE BAD NEWS YOUNGEST SON SENT OFF TO WAR. SAYS HIS GOODBYES.
INJURED HUSBAND HOLDS WIFE. SOLDIERS AWAIT GENERAL LEE NEAR. APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE. GENERAL GRANT GOES UP STEPS OF HOUSE. GRANT AND LEE SHAKE HANDS. OFFICERS JOIN THE GENERALS. CU LEE HOLDING SWORD. GRANT WRITES. RIPS PAGE FROM BOOK. LEE TAKES GLASSES OUT OF HIS POCKET AND READS TREATY. CU WRITING ON DOCUMENT. GENERAL LEE SIGNS SURRENDER THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR. THE GENERALS MOUNT THEIR HORSES. GENERAL LEE RIDES AWAY.