Gone with the Wind Part II

Scarlett's marriage only lasts a few nights, as Charles has to go to war. Scarlett becomes pregnant and has a son, Wade Hampton...and Charles dies leaving her a 16 year old widow. Melanie has married Ashley and is very fond of Scarlett believing that she is as grieved at Charles' death as she herself is. Scarlett and the baby go to Atlanta to stay with Melanie, and are trapped there by the war, which is soon beginning to go against the South. She meets Rhett Butler again and he asks her to dance at a fund raising party for the war. She is delighted as she hates being a widow in mourning. She lets him flirt with her, and she refuses to pay much attention to the war, or how badly its going. Melanie becomes pregnant and is due to give birth when Atlanta is burned. She has a son but is very ill and Scarlett manages to get Rhett to steal a horse and buggy to take them out of the city and back to her home of Tara. On the way Melanie is almost dying, but half way along, Rhett starts to feel guilty that he has not joined up and left others to do the fighting while he used the war to make money. He deserts Scarlett and goes off to join the army. Scarlett gets her maid and the 2 babies and Melanie to Tara, only to find that her mother has died of cholera and her father is helpless and demented.