The production starred Laura Sawyer, Benjamin Wilson, and Charles Ogle, with supporting characters played by Bessie Learn and James Gordon in the role of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

According to articles and reviews in 1912 trade publications, the film began with scenes set in the contemporary Southern United States, over 50 years after the start of the American Civil War.

[3] Helen Randall, an elderly well-to-do Southern spinster, is described sitting at her home and conversing with her niece Edith, a young woman who is engaged and soon to be married.

[3][5] The sets for staging the production were built in New York City at the main filming facilities of Edison Studios, which were located at the intersection of Decatur Avenue and Oliver Place in the Bronx.

[6] Many of the needed extras who performed as low-ranking Union and Confederate soldiers and as other peripheral characters in the story were residents hired from the Bronx neighborhoods surrounding the studio.

In those publications Edison promoted it as a tragic tale of "a sweet-faced woman", who in her defense of the Southern cause "shot and killed her lover, a Union boy in blue.

A major fire at Edison's Bronx facilities on March 28, 1914 devastated much of the studio, destroying sets, large collections of costumes, production equipment, and, as reported in The New York Times, "many moving picture feature films".