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Henry B. Walthall
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Lillian Gish as Elsie Stoneman and Henry B. Walthall as Colonel Ben Cameron in period costume, with Walthall holding a rifle, in a scene from The Birth of a Nation (1915).
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Henry B. Walthall

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