Show 9 STORY STOR at the outbreak of 0 the Alex mexican ican war milt shanks living with his wife and child at milleville millville Mill Alil ville Iville ill decides to enlist 4 he tells his wife who protests but abraham lincoln having stopped at their house to get a drink of 0 water tells milt it is his duty to remain at home and he reluctantly agrees at the outbreak of the civil war excitement runs high in milleville millville Mill ville and it is evident there are many southern sympathizers in town lem tollard being I 1 their leader 9 4 milt decides to enlist but he receives a letter from president lincoln asking ashing him to come to washington ile he complies and becomes a bemb member ef of the united states secret service charged with the duty of keeping his eye upon the copperheads copper heads in his locality he then plays a double role and when his son joey and wife upbraid him tor for his lack of patriotism he tells them he is a man of 0 peace and that the war was an unjust war joey enlists and goes to the front while milt is publicly derided by the children of 0 millville milleville Mill ville ile he gains the confidence ot of tollard and learns that he I 1 is about to warn the rebels that federal reinforcements are coming milt AM t consults with brother andrew a minister who c cooperates oo to frus frustrate tol lards plans the result being that tol to lards band is attacked by troops and several killed milt who plays his game sternly suffers arrest with tollard and among the troops who witness his apparent disgrace is his son joey both are and their sentence of death is commuted to life imprisonment by president lincoln milt is soon pardoned and is commissioned to go to richmond joey is slain in battle and his body brought to the village church when milt seeks to enter the guard thrusts him back and milt then learns that jocys dying wish was that his father whom he deemed a baltor ral tor should not see him in his coffin milts wife dies of a broken heart forty years pasi and milt is still avoided by his townsmen tollard Is pardoned and shoots milt because ot of the affair at tylers eylers ford during the war milt reveals the part lie be played during the war to madeline his granddaughter and tom hardy her sweetheart and to old f ti z lends the mystery of his course made clear milt dies contentedly this soul gripping story will beltola be told in detail in the great film the copperhead at the tabei nacle monday and tuesday ev evenings |