For Her Country's Sake (1909)
A story of the Civil War, opening at Headquarters of General Logan. He is conversing with his officers as an aide enters and hands him a card reading, "Nell Belmont, United States Secret Service." The young lady is ushered in, goes to a map on the table and explains certain conditions. At this moment a telegraph operator hands the general a message from Burke, Captain of the Scouts, recommending that all important dispatches be sent in duplicate by two messengers taking different routes. Mack, a young officer, volunteers to take one, while Nell signifies her willingness to deliver the other. The young man starts off, the girl changes her clothes for male attire and also departs. Through the woods she comes upon a squad of Rebel cavalry, but successfully eludes them. Shortly after, she is forced to abandon her horse, and down the road comes upon a house, which proves to be deserted. In a closet she finds a dress which she quickly dons and ready to impersonate the mistress. Her fellow messenger has not fared so well, being captured by the enemy, and by a strange stroke of fortune, brought to the house where Nell reigns as mistress. The prisoner is weak from wounds and Nell changes the bandage on his bead and in so doing, gains possession of the dispatch bidden beneath the cloth. When Mack is taken away by the enemy, Nell loses no time in taking up her journey to General Grant's Headquarters. She safely passes through the lines, comes upon a Union picket, who conducts her to General Grant. To him she delivers the dispatches and receives congratulations for her bravery.
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