In the Midst of Life · Character
Captain Hartroy
A line officer promoted from the ranks to an independent mountain command, he halts a whistling stranger at his picket post and then runs after him with a revolver.
supporting
Also known as II Captain Hartroy
First appearance: an affair of outposts
As a supporting figure in In the Midst of Life, Captain Hartroy is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
Union officer grappling with his conscience after capturing a former friend who is a Confederate spy.
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Hartroy holds a field officer's command in a Cumberland defile, a promotion that still sits uneasily on a man discovered rather than born to rank. When a butternut-clad civilian passes his sentinel with a paper and a…
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See Captain Hartroy in an affair of outposts