Cade Calvert is the brother of Cathleen Calvert and an admirer of Scarlett O'Hara.
Biography[]
Cade was born on his family's plantation, Pine Bloom to his father Hugh Calvert. He had an older brother Raiford, and a younger sister Cathleen. When Cade was young, his mother died and his father remarried a Yankee governess, to the great distress of the family and all of Clayton County.
Once, Stuart Tarleton shot him in the leg accidentally, though neither of them had hard feelings and they remained friends. Gerald O'Hara thought him an excellent match for his eldest daughter Scarlett.
At The Battle of Gettysburg, Cade lost his older brother Raiford. While he fought in the war, he returned home alive, though his health had weakened. He looked gaunt, skinny and had frequent and violent coughing fits. By 1865, he was dying of his illness and his sister quickly married their former overseer, Mr Hilton, so Cade wouldn't worry about what happened to her and the plantation after his death.
Trivia[]
- Cade was played by David Newell in Gone With the Wind, though he was uncredited. He appears in the background of one scene.