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