| Mr. | Ambrose | A judge. |
| Natasha | Beddenfeld | August Webler's wife. |
| Sarah | Beddenfeld | Natasha's mother. |
| Arthur | Benson | Mrs. Benson's nephew. |
| Mrs. | Benson | A woman in-charge at the convent. |
| Ray | Bittle | George's acquaintance. |
| Martha | Bloom | One of Margaret Webler's friends. |
| Mrs. | Clay | Osborne Clay's wife. |
| Osborne | Clay | A sheriff. |
| Gail | Cooley | Ted Morton's right-hand. |
| Robert | Cord | One of George Walker's neighbors. |
| Jefferson | Davis | Former President of the Confederate State of America. |
| Charles | Dickens | An English writer and social critic. |
| Dr. | Dover | George Walker's doctor. |
| Blair | Duncan | One of George Walker's neighbors. |
| Mrs. | Etty | Ted Morton's acquaintance. |
| John | Foster | Mildred's husband. |
| Mildred | Foster | One of Isabelle's oldest friends. |
| Arnold | Glass | A Brigadier General. |
| Lamar | Hackstedde | Osborne Clay's handpicked successor. |
| Al | Hooks | Ted Morton's acquaintance. |
| Robert | Lee | A confederate general during the American Civil War. |
| Abraham | Lincoln | The 16th U.S. President. |
| Ted | Morton | George Walker's neighbor. |
| Henry | Pershing | One of George Walker's neighbors. |
| Mr. | Rainey | George's acquaintance. |
| William | Shakespeare | An English playwright, poet and actor. |
| Albert | Stoutly | One of a bartenders. |
| Caleb | Walker | Isabelle and George Walker's son. |
| George | Walker | A middle-aged man living in a small town of old Ox, Georgia. |
| August | Webler | Caleb's childhood friend. |
| Margaret | Webler | August Webler's mother. |
| Wade | Webler | August Webler's father. |
| Ezra | Whitley | A close friend of George Walker's father. |
| Mr. | Whitney | A landowner. |
| Alice | | Ezra's wife. |
| Anne | | Natasha's sister. |
| Benjamin | | George Walker's father. |
| Charlie | | Mildred's son. |
| Clarinda | | One of Walker's farm helpers. |
| Clementine | | George's paid mistress. |
| Delpha | | Prentiss' ex-girlfriend. |
| Elliot | | Walker's farm helper. |
| Elsy | | Clementine's daughter. |
| Esther | | One of Ted Morton's slaves. |
| Geoffrey | | One of Walker's farm helpers. |
| Goodwin | | Worked alongside with Hackstedde. |
| Isabelle | | George Walker's wife. |
| Jan | | One of a bartenders. |
| Jane | | Clarinda's sister. |
| Jeffrey | | Mr. Webler's secretary. |
| Jessup | | A helper. |
| Katrina | | Isabelle's acquaintance. |
| Landry | | Prentiss' brother. |
| Lawson | | Ted Morton's worker. |
| Lillian | | Silas' wife. |
| Little James | | One of Ted Morton's slaves. |
| Matthew | | One of Walker's farm helpers. |
| Plutarch | | A Greek philosopher. |
| Prentiss | | Former slave of Ted Morton. |
| Quincey | | Sila's son. |
| Rawlings | | A storekeeper. |
| Ridley | | A donkey. |
| Silas | | Isabelle's brother. |
| Taffy | | George's friend. |
| Tim | | Hacckstedde's deputy. |
| Voltaire | | A French writer. |
| William | | Ted Morton's son. |
