Minor Characters

Harriet Maxwell Converse, a friend of Ely Parker, and the author of the book whose title page is shown above, throws a dinner party in Chapter 12 of The Last Circle of Ulysses Grant.

Among the guests are some of the major characters in the novel, but also some, like Converse herself, who only appear in that chapter.
In the latter category is Josephine Shaw Lowell, the widow and sister of two famous Civil War colonels, both killed in action. She went on to become a significant social reformer, and is memorialized  by a fountain which can still be seen in Bryant Park, Manhattan, behind the New York Public Library.