In Fiction
Ward turns up in George MacDonald Fraser's fictional Flashman Papers (Flashman and the Dragon) as a Yangtse gun smuggler (apocryphal) and as the embryonic leader of the Ever Victorious Army.
Ward appears as Fletcher Thorson Wood in the novel Yang Shen by James Lande, which relates the tale of the first three years of the Ever Victorious Army, from its beginning as the Foreign Rifles in 1860 through September 1862.
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