| Eira |
Blevins | Nurse attendant at the asylum |
| Mrs. |
Bowman | Hospital matron in charge of ward attendants |
| Eliza |
Connolly | ConaLee's mother. Aka: Miss Janet |
| Ephraim |
Connolly | Night watchman's true identity and ConaLee's biological father |
| Agatha |
Gordon | Dr. O'Shea's head nurse |
| Mrs. |
Hexum | Head cook |
| Ruth |
Kasinski | Blevins's patient |
| Thomas Story |
Kirkbride | Hospital superintendent of the Institute of Pennsylvania |
| Robert |
Lee | Confederate general |
| Ole |
Marse | Eliza's grandfather |
| Young |
Marse | Eliza's father |
| George |
Meade | Union major general and Lee's enemy |
| Mrs. |
Morrison | Drawing teacher at the asylum |
| Dr. |
O'Shea | Surgeon who saved Ephraim. Aka: Old O'Shea |
| John |
O'Shea | Asylum night watchman. Aka: Young O'Shea |
| Mrs. |
O'Shea | Wife of Old O'Shea |
| Mrs. |
Paine | Ephraim's accountant |
| Thomas |
Story | Physician superintendent and Dr. Kirkbride's nephew |
| Alfred R. |
Waud | Combat artist |
| V.A. |
Witcher | Confederate lieutenant colonel |
| Bart |
| One of the Yankees |
| Chap |
| ConaLee's brother |
| ConaLee |
| Protagonist. Aka: Connolly |
| Dearbhla |
| Healer who raised Eliza |
| Dib |
| Weed's colleague |
| Leena |
| Friend of Dearbhla's mother |
| Liza |
| Papa's horse |
| Mistress |
| Dearbhla's employer and Eliza's mother |
| Papa |
| Abusive Yankee veteran and criminal. Aka: Reb |
| Weed |
| Young orphan |
| Zef |
| Weed's colleague |
