Chickamauga Characters

The story’s protagonist is a six-year old, deaf-mute, white child growing up on a slaveholding plantation in northwestern Georgia during the Civil War. Although the child’s age is revealed at the beginning of the story… read analysis of The Child

The only living, human characters with whom the child interacts during the course of the story are the group of wounded soldiers he encounters in the forest. The soldiers are a mystery to the child… read analysis of The Soldiers

The child’s mother is mentioned three times in the story. First, when the child encounters the “formidable enemy” of the rabbit, he yells out inarticulate cries for his mother. Second, while he sleeps in… read analysis of The Mother

The child’s father is mentioned at the beginning of the story, when the child is first wandering into the forest to play at war with his toy sword. The child’s father is now… read analysis of The Father

The narrator of the story is not quite a character—the narrator has no name, no history, and can’t really be considered a person. Yet the narrator is a key part of the story, and subtly… read analysis of The Narrator