This clip is from a film about the American Civil War. It begins with a CU of a train pulling into a station. Cuts to a MS the silhouette of a man in a top hat stepping off the train. Dissolves to a CU of a nameless numbered gravestone that pans up to show rows of similar gravestones. Cut to a WS of a sunset that then has a map superimposed on it. Cuts to a WS of a house. A CU of the exterior of a house. Cuts to the portrait of a man. Cuts to a different portrait of the same man. Cuts to a shot of a different graveyard. Cuts to a CU of train wheels. Cuts to a WS of coal stacks. Cuts to a WS of a house. Cuts to a CU of black hands picking cotton. A MS of slaves in a cotton field.