Reggie Bartlett

A pharmacist's assistant in Richmond during peacetime, Reggie Bartlett served as an enlisted Confederate soldier on the Roanoke front outside Big Lick, Virginia in the Great War. After being captured by Chester Martin's unit, he and naval officer Ralph Briggs escape from a West Virginia POW camp. Bartlett is assigned to Sequoyah on his return to Confederate service, and is captured a second time after being injured in battle. Not in any shape to escape, he is placed in a U.S. veterans' hospital in St. Louis until the post-armistice exchange.

Bartlett is a Radical Liberal, and signs on to Tom Brearley's denunciation of Roger Kimball's sinking of the USS Ericsson. Like Brearley, Kimball is murdered as a result.