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Oscie Mason- The main character. Very stubond in the beggining and then becomes very easy going. Will McLean- The man who marries Oscie's mama, Varginia. Becomes Oscie's, Maria's, and Sarah's stepdaddy.

Virginia McLean- The widow of John Mason. She later marries Will McLean. Lives on her dead husband's plantation in the south and is expecting another baby.

Maria Mason- Oscie's older sister. She loves Will McLean in the beggining when Oscie hates him. Falls in love with a boy named, Michah.

Sarah Mason- The youngest sister of the Mason girls. While ice skating on a pond she falls in and dies of the cold water.

Willie McLean- The only brother Oscie has. He acts and looks just like his daddy, Will McLean.

Lula McLean- She's her daddy's girl and his always by her daddy's side.

Nannie McLean- She was just born so there was nothing said about her. She was just a coouple months old.

Michah- The man Maria falls in love with.

Thomas- The man Oscie falls in ove with.

Discrepancies Some things that were different between the book and real world historical facts are as listed. Will McLean's real name is Wilmer McLean. No one knows where Wilmer and his family lived between there move from Manassas to Appomattox. The author put the family in Charlottesville because that is where Wilmer's sister, Hannah, lived. Who by the way is a real person that lives and was Wilmer's real sister.Maria Mason, Will's step daughter, actually marriesa man named, Rhilip Lee, in centreville. In the novel, Maria marries Michah Stevens, a Yankee from Marietta, Ohio. Willie's real name is, John Wilmer. Captain Alex's real name is, Edward Porter Alexander. Sarah really didn't die from falling into the pond, no body really knows. Someother things that are not true, that the author came up with are as follws. The character of Mary Ann, McLean's feelings on slavery, Oscie's love for captain Alex, the way Oscie's mama wans will to prove to her he is still the same man he was before the war started. McLean did give his house and barn to the Confederate Army at Yorkshire. Captain Alex's wifeis the niece of Mrs. Mclean, Virginia. McLean's speculating in sugar is what made him walk out of his house in appomattox to meet accidentally Colonel Charles Marshall, and General Robert E. Lee's military secretary, who where seeking a site for the sign of the surrender.

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