"LIKE A FLASH OF SUNLIGHT She bursts into sleepy Carolina...upsetting traditions...injecting life where there was laziness...love where there were fear and hate!"
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.
Joanna Tate

Bob Connelly

Will Connelly

Mrs. Ellen Connelly

Allan

Virginia Buchanan

Joan Connelly (uncredited)

Scipio

Richards

Gen. Robert E. Lee

Gen. Leonidas Polk