Un incidente en el Puente de Owl Creek (traducido) [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Translated)] characters

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A civilian prisoner standing on a railroad bridge with a noose around his neck while Union soldiers conduct a formal execution. His identity and the reason for his sentence are not initially explained.

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The Union officer overseeing the execution at Owl Creek bridge. He stands apart from the enlisted men and observes the strict military procedure without intervening.

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A Union noncommissioned officer who stands on the plank with the condemned man and controls the final movement that will drop him between the railroad ties.

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Peyton Farquhar's wife, who shares his Alabama home and receives a passing soldier with him. In the condemned man's last thoughts, she and their children embody the home to which he desperately wants to return.

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A soldier who stops at the Farquhar plantation dressed as a Confederate and describes Union repairs and security at Owl Creek bridge. After encouraging Peyton's interest in sabotaging it, he is identified as a Federal scout.

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The young members of the Farquhar household. They appear with their mother in Peyton's thoughts of the family waiting beyond the war and the execution ground.