But the picture is transfigured by so marked a devotion, that it is the main illustration in this work of the religious photoplay.
The beginning shows President Lincoln in the White House brooding over the lack of response to his last call for troops.

(He is impersonated by Ralph Ince.) He and Julia Ward Howe are looking out of the window on a recruiting headquarters that is not busy.

(Mrs.Howe is impersonated by Julia S.Gordon.) Another scene shows an old mother in the West refusing to let her son enlist.

(This woman is impersonated by Mrs.Maurice.) The father has died in the war.

The sword hangs on the wall.