Sam Davis, the Hero of Tennessee
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Lillian Nicholson Shearon
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At the start of the Civil War, Sam Davis leaves his plantation family to enlist in the Confederate Army. Two years later, returning to battle after a brief furlough, Sam meets Polly Dover in Pulaski, Tennessee and falls in love. Posing as a Union herb doctor, Captain H. B. Shaw infiltrates the Union camp and passes military secrets to his Confederate peers. Betty English, another spy, tricks a Union captain into drawing a diagram of an upcoming maneuver, then with the help of her black slave, delivers the paper to Shaw, who entrusts Sam to take it to the front. After kissing Polly goodbye, Sam rides off with the document, followed closely by Union soldiers. Sam gives them a good chase but is finally caught. Despite numerous questionings and a trial, Sam refuses to reveal the identity of his fellow spies and is sentenced to hang. Surrounded by crying, admiring onlookers, Sam dies, a hero.
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Although no precise information on the length of this film is available, the copyright scenario suggests a story of feature-length complexity. Although no confirmed release date has been found, evidence indicates that the film was released in 1915. This film May be the same as another 1915 film, The Life of Sam Davis: A Confederate Hero of the Sixties, copyrighted in May, but as they were both based on actual persons and events whose fiftieth anniversary was being celebrated at that time, it is possible that more than one film on the subject was made.
