# Captain Orlando Killion — Spoon River Anthology character guide

> Captain Orlando Killion in Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0238-captain-orlando-killion

## Who they are

A Civil War veteran who dies in a bar fight.

## In the story

### [Captain Orlando Killion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/spoon_river_anthology_se/chapters/captain-orlando-killion)

The speaker of the epitaph, a former blasphemer and army captain, defending his faith and service as intertwined responses to the overwhelming forces of history and mortality.

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