The Battle (1911)




The Battle




Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.


Books with an entry on The Battle

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Battle

Kayla McKinney Wiggins and Michael Wiggins, When Silence was Golden, Silent Civil War Films before The Birth of a Nation, in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017