1. Mr. Edward Colburne
   1. lives in New Boston (puritan city)
   2. patriot and loyal to the Union
   3. a good-natured, respectable citizen
      1. strongly built fine figure
      2. embodiment of frankness and good nature
      3. sympathetic and earnest in his feelings
      4. always cares about his social appearance
   4. lawyer, later becomes captain in Union army
      1. matures in battle
   5. (probably idealized self-portrait of William DeForest)
2. Miss Lillie Ravenal
   1. from New Orleans,18
   2. first class beauty, socially charming, loveable young lady
   3. Conversion from secession to loyalty:
      1. at first she is truely a rebel
         1. shallow, frivolous personality
         2. advocat (Fürsprecherin) of secession
         3. considers the upper class of the South as quite nice and civilized
      2. influence of her father
         1. disagrees with her father's opinion and his self-imposed exile
      3. influence of her two lovers
      4. = converted to support the Union
         1. mature christian mother
3. Mr. Ravenal (the doctor)
   1. born in South Carolina, 55
   2. lived for 20 years in New Orleans (Louisana)
   3. exiled to the North because he didn't want to be a rebel
   4. professor of science (mineralogist)
   5. knew Mr. Colburne's father
   6. friendly, charming
   7. speaks pejoratively (abwertend) of the Southerners
   8. philanthropic
   9. full of frankness
4. Narrator
   1. omniscent
   2. talks to us (3), tells private things (27)
   3. fictive entity
   4. author seems to be the same persona as the narrator
   5. gives information about himself (DeForest) (16)
      1. born in New England
   6. criticizes the New Bostonians for their manner
   7. foreshadows 23
   8. explain certain behavior and manners of the characters (39,44)
5. The Meurices
   1. helped Union invasion
6. The Governor of Barataria (82)
   1. slow in gait because feeble in health (50 years)
   2. benign dignity of manner and unvarying amiability of countenance
   3. modest, gentle-tempered, obliging man
   4. patriotic in every impulse
   5. greatly concerned with his votes before election
7. Mrs. Ruggles
   1. condemns Mr. Ravenal for his charming manner
8. Major Gazaway
   1. coward
9. Professor Whitewood + Mrs. Whitewood
   1. Mrs: amiable, excellent housewife, listener
   2. son John Whitewood, Jr. - very proper person
   3. daughter: 25, awkward but good, shy, without a suitor
   4. square person with a square house
   5. members of puritan university - severe studies
10. Madame Larue
11. Lieutenant-Colonel Carter
    1. handsome man
    2. widower
    3. alcoholic ~ wine-bibber
    4. (+) skilled commander
    5. (-) cannot handle debts
    6. (-) cannot handle marriage
       1. loves Lillie, but easily seduced by Larue
    7. convinces Colburne to join the army
    8. dies in battle
    9. additional info
       1. was stationed at Baton Rouge for several years (Louisana)
       2. West Point graduate - gentleman by right
       3. originally Virginian but mother native in Barataria
       4. his plan (30-31) "make the state a Prussia" - wants to command regiments
       5. 33-37 but man of the world
       6. (only wants educated soldiers)