Driving Home the Cows

1912 · Directed by Sidney Olcott · silent film

While driving home the cows one evening, a boy decides to go to war. He falls to win his parents' consent as they have already given the lives of two sons to the great cause. The boy, therefore, steals away in the night, stopping to say good-bye to his young sweetheart. In a hotly contested battle, the boy is wounded and taken prisoner.