Republic. Flashman meets her at a party and calls her "a spanking little red-head with a sharp eye." John Brown – One of the title characters, Brown was considered to be either a hero or a scoundrel, depending on whose view of history one is reading. As far as Flashman was concerned, he usually disliked anyone that nearly got him killed, and he says, "he was a sincere, worthy, autocratic, good-natured, terrible, dangerous old zealot, hard as nails, iron-willed, brave beyond belief, and possessed of all the muscular Christian virtues which I can't stand." Later Flashman says, "there's a case to be made for saying he was the most evil influence ever let loose in North America." Despite all this, Flashman clearly liked the man, and he even saves Brown's life towards the end. George Edward Grey – Governor of Cape Colony. Allan Pinkerton – A Scottish born detective. William H. Seward – United States Senator. Flashman says he was "civil, pleasant, easy – and the most vicious arm-twister I ever struck". Franklin Benjamin Sanborn – A Member of the Secret Six. Henry Wilson – United States Senator Samuel Gridley Howe – A Member of the Secret Six. George Luther Stearns – A Member of the Secret Six. John Henrie Kagi – "Secretary of War" to Brown. Aaron Stevens - One of John Brown's raiders. Shields Green - One of John Brown's raiders. Dangerfield Newby – One of John Brown's raiders. Barclay Coppock – One of John Brown's raiders. Frederick Douglass – Escaped slave and abolitionist. Brown meets him with Flashman in tow in order to convince him to join the raid. Flashman describes him as "altogether white in speech and style, but I doubt if he knew it or cared; he had a fine sense of his own dignity, which would have irked me whatever colour he was". J.E.B. Stuart – Robert E. Lee's aide-de-camp at Harper's Ferry. Henry A. Wise – The Governor of Virginia. References 1994 British novels Flashman novels Fiction set in the 1850s Novels set in West Virginia HarperCollins books Cultural depictions of John Brown (abolitionist) Books about Frederick Douglass