Here is a drama in which, amidst an authentic setting of Pennsylvania Colonial, we find the terrible facts of the Civil War stabbing the hearts and conscience of high-minded men and women, by every instinct of heredity and training opposed to war; and by the very extent and passion of their reactions, we gain such a realization of the struggle, and all it meant to our fathers, as no display of uniforms, and spies, and captured telegrams, and off-stage musket fire, could possibly achieve.