Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
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Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron
Lillian Gish
Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Miriam Cooper
Margaret Cameron
Mae Marsh
Flora Cameron
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