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The Drummer Girl of Vicksburg

The Drummer Girl of Vicksburg poster
Directed by
Kenean Buel
Country
United States
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A young woman disguises herself as a drummer boy to fight in the American Civil War. The film follows her bravery and adventures behind the lines.

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What happens

The Drummer Girl of Vicksburg is a lost 1912 silent motion picture produced by Kalem Company of New York City and filmed in Jacksonville, Florida. With a storyline set in the 1860s, during the American Civil War, the military drama starred Miriam Cooper in the title role with a supporting cast that included Guy Coombs, Anna Q. Nilsson, and Hal Clements. No footage of The Drummer Girl of Vicksburg is listed among the holdings of major film repositories, studio archives, or known private collections in North America, Europe, or elsewhere in the world. This Kalem release is therefore presumed to be lost, although a few stills from the film survive in advertisements printed in 1912 trade publications. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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