Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Story 'Feathertop'

This came about when I first read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Feathertop”, a story about a witch who brings a scarecrow to life and tricks a young woman into marrying it. I also took inspiration from Ken Burns documentary, The Civil War, and other nuggets of the American Civil War lore. The rest of the story would go like this. The scarecrow would go to Boston and enlist as an officer in the Union army. He would fight first in the first Battle of Bull Run and then he would continue to fight. Along the way he meets several other soldiers and civilians and develop a different personality than Ichabod Jones. He would also come to face Thaddeus O’Hara, a confederate oculist. In the end Feathertop would have a final face off with O’Hara at