Virginia B. Dickens, who is also known to everyone as just Ginny. Her father and older brother, Jedidiah who got involved of helping do stuff while away from home during the American Civil War of 1863. Reverend McCully along with his wife and daughter; Jane Ellen who Ginny stayed with while her father and Jed were away. Ginny, as in she described in the journal, about war, dying soldiers, and trying to collect the courage to help and comfort soldiers. - Happy Reading!