<Li> Big Sam: is a strong, hardworking field slave and the foreman at Tara . In post-war lawlessness, Big Sam comes to Scarlett's rescue from would - be thieves . </Li> <Li> Will Benteen: is a "South Georgia cracker," Confederate soldier, and patient listener to the troubles of all . Will lost part of his leg in the war and walks with the aid of a wooden stump . He is taken in by the O'Haras on his journey home from the war; after his recovery he stays on to manage the farm at Tara . Fond of Carreen O'Hara, he is disappointed when she decides to enter a convent . Not wanting to leave Tara, he later marries Suellen and has at least one child, Susie, with her . </Li> <Ul> <Li> India Wilkes: is the sister of Honey and Ashley Wilkes . She is described as plain . India was courted by Stuart Tarleton before he and his brother Brent both fell in love with Scarlett . </Li> <Li> Honey Wilkes: is the sister of India and Ashley Wilkes . Honey is described as having the "odd lashless look of a rabbit ." </Li> <Li> John Wilkes: is owner of "Twelve Oaks" and patriarch of the Wilkes family . John Wilkes is educated and gracious . He is killed during the siege of Atlanta . </Li> <Li> Tarleton Boys: Boyd, Tom, and the twins, Brent and Stuart: The red - headed Tarleton boys were in frequent scrapes, loved practical jokes and gossip, and "were worse than the plagues of Egypt," according to their mother . The inseparable twins, Brent and Stuart, at 19 years old were six feet two inches tall . All four boys were killed in the war, the twins just moments apart at the Battle of Gettysburg . Boyd was buried somewhere in Virginia . </Li> <Li> Tarleton Girls: Hetty, Camilla,' Randa and Betsy: The stunning Tarleton girls have varying shades of red hair . </Li> <Li> Beatrice Tarleton: is the mistress of the "Fairhill" plantation . She was a busy woman, managing a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroes, and eight children, and the largest horse - breeding farm in Georgia . Hot - tempered, she believed that "a lick every now and then did her boys no harm ." </Li> <Li> Calvert Family: Raiford, Cade and Cathleen: are the O'Haras' Clayton County neighbors from another plantation, "Pine Bloom". Cathleen Calvert was young Scarlett's friend . Their widowed father Hugh married a Yankee governess, who was called "the second Mrs. Calvert ." Next to Scarlett, Cathleen "had had more beaux than any girl in the County," but eventually married their former Yankee overseer, Mr. Hilton . </Li> <Li> Fontaine Family: Joe, Tony and Alex are known for their hot tempers . Joe is killed at Gettysburg, while Tony murders Jonas Wilkerson in a barroom and flees to Texas, leaving Alex to tend to their plantation . Grandma Fontaine, also known as "Old Miss," is the wife of old Doc Fontaine, the boys' grandfather . "Young Miss" and young Dr. Fontaine, the boys' parents, and Sally (Munroe) Fontaine, wife to Joe, make up the remaining family of the "Mimosa" plantation . </Li> <Li> Emmie Slattery: is poor white trash . The daughter of Tom Slattery, her family lived on three acres along the swamp bottoms between the O'Hara and Wilkes plantations . Emmie gave birth to an illegitimate child fathered by Jonas Wilkerson, a Yankee and the overseer at Tara . The child died . Emmie later married Jonas . After the war, flush with carpetbagger cash, they try to buy Tara, but Scarlett refuses the offer . </Li> </Ul> <Li> India Wilkes: is the sister of Honey and Ashley Wilkes . She is described as plain . India was courted by Stuart Tarleton before he and his brother Brent both fell in love with Scarlett . </Li>

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