General Pascual Orozco, Federal General in Mexico stands in front of a building and poses for camera. Next view shows Mexican federal soldiers firing from trenches. Men in the background. Opening slate indicates there is a price on Orozco's head (possibly indicating film is from mid 1915 following Orozco's escape in the United States from arrest on charges of conspiracy to violate U.S. neutrality laws, preceding his capture and death in 1915)
Mexican Federal soldiers firing from a trench in Mexico against Constitutionalists forces in Mexico (nearing time of U.S. punitive expedition against Pancho Villa). Smoke arises due to the firing. Dead Mexican soldier on the battlefield. A man views the dead soldier. Men sit outside shacks in front of a house. Federal medics give first aid to the Federal soldiers and people who are injured. A medic dresses the leg wound on a soldier.
At a U.S. Army training facility in the United States, Cavalry troops load and fire artillery. Soldier places hands over his ears as artillery pieces are fired across a practice range.