How Few Remain - Primary Characters in "How Few Remain"

Primary Characters in "How Few Remain"

The novel is narrated from the point of view of eight primary historical figures.

  • Thomas J. Jackson, old "Stonewall," General-in-Chief of the Confederate Army, is ready and eager to strike at the Yankees once more.
  • General J.E.B. Stuart defends the new Confederate territories from the Yankees, the Apaches under Geronimo being first his allies and then his foes.
  • Colonel George A. Custer, a frustrated Yankee cavalryman, serves on the Great Plains and helps put down the Mormon rebellion in Utah.
  • Theodore Roosevelt is a wealthy, patriotic young Montana rancher who raises his own cavalry force, known as the "Unauthorised Regiment".
  • Frederick Douglass, a former slave and a fiery orator, observes the Union forces at war.
  • Colonel Alfred von Schlieffen serves as the German military attaché to the U.S.
  • Samuel Clemens is a sharp-witted newspaper editor in San Francisco.
  • Former President Abraham Lincoln, influenced by the writings of Karl Marx, is an orator struggling to keep the Republican Party united in the cause of the working man.

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