| | | | Part One |
| 1 | Pete | Banning | A war hero. The man who killed Dexter. |
| | Mack | | Pete's blue tick hound. |
| | Joel | Banning | Pete's son. |
| | Stella | Banning | Pete's daughter. |
| | Florry | Banning | Pete's sister. |
| | Marietta | | Pete's cook. |
| | William | Faulkner | A man that Pete met at a cocktail party before the war. |
| | Nineva | | Pete's secretary. |
| | Dexter | Bell | The reverend at Clanton Methodist Church. Deceased. |
| | Liza | S. Banning | Pete's wife. |
| | Jackie | Bell | Dexter's wife. |
| | Chester | Purdue | A church caretaker. Aka: Hop. |
| 2 | Roy | Lester | The town's policeman. |
| | Mrs. | Vandaladingham | Dexter's neighbor. |
| | Nix | Gridley | The town's sheriff. |
| | Red | Arnett | A policeman. |
| | Amos | | One of Mr. Pete's servants. Nineva's husband. |
| | John | Wilbanks | A prominent lawyer. Pete's friend. |
| | Rafe | Oswalt | The county's judge. |
| 3 | Joshua | Banning | Pete's grandfather. |
| | Mildred | Highlander | Joel's friend. A widow who lived alone. |
| 4 | Leon | Colliver | Pete's co-prisoner. |
| 5 | Vic | Dixon | Mildred's neighbor. |
| 6 | Miles | Truitt | A district attorney. The chief prosecutor. |
| | Chuck | Manley | Pete's co-prisoner. An alleged car thief. |
| | Mr. | Nance | Chuck's lawyer. |
| | Earl | Caldwell | Owner of the car Chuck stole. |
| | J.P | Leatherwood | Chuck's boss. |
| | Mr. | Magargel | A funeral owner. |
| | Gloria | Grange | A devout member of the Methodist church. |
| 7 | Jacob | Banning | Pete's father. Joel's grandfather. |
| 8 | Phil | Hobard | A science teacher at Clanton High. |
| | Tyus | Sutton | One of the jurors at Pete's trial. |
| | Paul | Carlin | One of the jurors at Pete's trial. |
| | Joel | Fisher | One of the jurors at Pete's trial. |
| | Milt | Muncie | One of the jurors at Pete's trial. |
| | Homer | Galax | Pete's jail trusty. |
| 9 | Errol | Mcleish | A lawyer. A man who owns Jackie's house. |
| | Ginger | Reed | Stella's best friend. |
| | Tick | Poley | A part-time jailhouse guard. |
| 10 | Russell | Wilbanks | John's brother. |
| 12 | Mrs. | Fortenberry | An administrator at Building 41. |
| | Dr. | Hilsabeck | Liza's doctor. |
| | Miss | Twyla | Florry's friend. |
| 13 | Ernie | Dowdle | A man who works at the courthouse basement. |
| | Walter | Willy | The bailey. |
| | Penrod | | The custodian. |
| 14 | James | Lindsey | One of the jurors at Pete's trial. |
| | Delbert | Mooney | One of the jurors at Pete's trial. |
| | Slim | Fargason | A witness during Pete's trial.
County's chancery clerk. |
| | Doug | Cranwell | A ballistics expert. |
| | Dr. Fred | Briley | A man who'd done the autopsy on the body of Dexter. |
| 15 | Anthony | Rusconi | A major of the U.S. Army. |
| | Douglas | MacArthur | The commander of the U.S. Force in the Philippines. |
| | Clay | Wampler | Pete's colleague and friend. |
| 16 | Hal | Greenwod | Owner of a county store. |
| | Wilbur | Stack | A war veteran. |
| 17 | Reed | Taylor | A lawyer. |
| | Hardy | Capley | A cub reporter. |
| | Buford | Pavine | The Bannings's long-time foreman. |
| 18 | Jim | Parchman | The first warden of the state prison. |
| | Jimmy | Thompson | The new state executioner. |
| | Willie Mae | Bragg | A convict. |
| 19 | Fielding | Wright | The governor. |
| | | | Part Two |
| 21 | Mrs. | Sweeney | Liza's mother. |
| 22 | Jupe | | Amos and Nineva's grandson. |
| | Jupiter | | Jupe's mother. |
| 24 | President | Roosevelt | The current U.S. President. |
| | Lewis | Brereton | The air force commander during war. |
| | Edwin | Ramsey | Pete's platoon leader. |
| 25 | Sal | Moreno | An Italian sergeant from Long Island. |
| | Ewing | Kane | Pete's colleague. |
| | Ned | King | The American commander. |
| | Jack | Wilson | Pete's colleague. |
| 27 | Edwin | Ramsey | Leader - last cavalry charge at Morong. Pete's commander. |
| | Robert | Trumpett | A soldier who was in charge of Twenty-Sixth. |
| 29 | Hirohito | | The Japanese emperor. |
| | Amato | | A man who owned a forty-foot Filipino fishing rig. |
| 30 | Helen | Wampler | Clay's wife. |
| | Acevedo | | The man who helped Pete and Clay. |
| | Darell | Barney | Formerly Captain of Eleventh Infantry Brigade. |
| 31 | Bernard | Granger | A British hero from World War I. |
| | Camacho | | A Filipino veteran. Amerinoof Pete's Filipino Army. |
| 32 | Alan | Dubose | A high-ranking official. Pete's colleague. |
| | Carlyle | | An American commander. |
| 33 | Captain | Miller | A soldier from Minnesota. |
| 34 | Renaldo | | One of Pete's Filipino army. |
| 35 | Agnes | Murphy | The Banning's neighbor. |
| | Shirley | Armstrong | Liza's close friend. |
| | | | Part Three |
| 36 | Abbott | Rumbold | The ancient dictator of Chancery Court. |
| 37 | Burch | Dunlap | Jackie Bell's lawyer. |
| 39 | Dr. | Potter | An economics professor. |
| | Dr. | Satterfield | An economics expert. |
| 41 | Claude | Skinner | The attorney at law. Dunlap's witness. |
| | Myra | | Jackie's source of gossip. |
| 42 | Mr. | Sweeney | Liza's father. |
| | Mary Ann | Malouf | A girl that Joel met. |
| 46 | Beverly | | Liza's acquaintance. |
| | Jack | Shenault | A tupelo sidekick. |
