- A caption describes a "great conqueror" marching towards the sea.
- We see a mother and her children huddled together in the woods. The camera pans and sees a massive force of soldiers marching along the water, heading towards Atlanta.
- (This is referring to General Sherman's march across Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah. Sherman is from the North)
- We watch a chaotic battle scene as "In the Hall of the Mountain King" plays.
- Confederate soldiers are eating when they're ambushed by Union soldiers. General Lee (he's from the South) organizes a counter-attack.
- Ben, who's now known as "the little Colonel," joins this charge of Confederate forces.
- The battle rages. Ben leads his troops against a force led by Phil Stoneman, the older Stoneman brother.
- The Confederates make forward progress, but lose too many men to have hope for a victory. Ben gives water to a Union soldier who was wounded before leading a last ditch charge.
- The charge fails, but Phil Stoneman grabs Ben's injured body and pulls him behind the trenches.
- The North has won the battle.
- The Camerons receive news that Ben is injured and is currently recuperating in a Washington hospital. The Cameron sisters become furiously angry.