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==Primary characters==
The novel is narrated from the point of view of eight primary historical figures.
* [[Stonewall Jackson|Thomas J. Jackson]], old "Stonewall," General-in-Chief of the Confederate army, is ready and eager to strike at the Yankees once more. He fights battles in [[West Virginia]] before inventing [[Urban Warfare]] in the Battle of Louisville. Later he is approached by [[Wade Hampton III]] in a [[Coup d'état|coup]] attempt but refuses.
* General [[J.E.B. Stuart]] defends the new C.S. territories of [[Sonora]] and [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]] from the Yankees in the [[New Mexico Territory]], the [[Apache]]s under [[Geronimo]] being first his allies and then his foes. He dies in an Apache [[ambush]] near the end of the book.
* Colonel [[George Armstrong Custer]], a frustrated U.S. [[cavalry]]man, serves on the [[Great Plains]], [[border]] between [[Kansas]] and the [[Indian Territory]] and helps brutally put down the [[Utah War|Mormon rebellion]] in Utah. He then heads north to [[Montana]] and wins a great victory against British general [[Chinese Gordon]], before planning a run for president.
* [[Theodore Roosevelt]] is a wealthy, patriotic young Montana rancher who raises his own cavalry force, known as the "Unauthorized Regiment". He is largely responsible for Custer's victory in Montana.
* [[Frederick Douglass]], a former [[slavery|slave]] and a fiery [[orator]] and [[journalist]], observes the Union forces at war in Louisville and [[New York City|New York]]. He is briefly captured by the Confederates but is released by order of president Longstreet.
* Colonel [[Alfred von Schlieffen]] serves as the [[German Empire|German]] military [[attaché]] to the U.S. He helps to plan the German-U.S. alliance.
* [[Mark Twain|Samuel Clemens]] is a sharp-witted newspaper editor in [[San Francisco]] and a prominent opponent of the war.
* Former President [[Abraham Lincoln]], influenced by the writings of [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]], is an orator struggling to keep the Republican Party united in the cause of the working man, but eventually helps form a new party, the [[Socialist Party of America|Socialists]], which effectively replaces the Republican Party in the coming decades.