After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.
Alternative titles: The Little Colonel | La pequeña coronela | Oberst Shirley | A Mascote do Regimento | Mali pukovnik | Den lille oberst | Pikku eversti | Le petit colonel | O mikros syntagmatarhis | Ο μικρός συνταγματάρχης | Il piccolo colonnello | 小連隊長 | La pequeña rebelde | De kleine kolonel | Mały pułkownik | Shirley, a Mascote do Regimento | Маленький полковник | Lilla oversten | Küçük Albay