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and starred

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and

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. The miniseries won several Emmy Awards, including an Outstanding Supporting Actress award to Cicely Tyson.Emmy Magazine: Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells – Awards and Nominations
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on May 1 and 3, 1994.

Plot

On her 99th birthday, Lucy Honicut Marsden (

) recalls her life as the 14-year-old bride of a veteran of the

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Cast

as young Lucy Honicut Marsden *

as Capt. William Marsden *

as Castalia, Marsden Family House Slave/Maid *

as Lucy Marsden (age 99) * Blythe Danner as Bianca Honicut *

E. G. Marshall E. G. Marshall (born Everett Eugene Grunz;Everett Eugene Grunz in Minnesota, U.S., Birth Index, 1900-1934, Ancestry.comEverett Eugene Grunz in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, accessed via Ancestry.com June 18, ...

as Prof. Taw, Old Folks Home Resident

References

External links

* * 1990s American television miniseries 1994 drama films American Civil War films Films scored by Mark Snow Films about old age CBS network films Television shows based on American novels Films directed by Ken Cameron Primetime Emmy Award-winning television series 1990s English-language films 1990s American films {{AmericanCivilWar-drama-film-stub