General Grant
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Character Key:
Display Name:
General Grant
Sort Name:
Grant, Ulysses S.
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Dead
Occupation:
Armed Forces
Specific Job:
Union General
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Monday, April 22, 1822
Origin:
Ohio
Cause of Death:
Disease
Other Texts:
Biography:
Grant rose to the rank of Major General during the fighting in the western theater of the Civil War, and was in command of the "Vicksburg campaign" of 1862-1863. According to the narrative, he "came through the county" of Yoknapatawpha during that campaign (8). Historically, during his first (aborted) advance on Vicksburg in December, 1862, Grant set up his headquarters in Oxford briefly. He withdrew his forces northward after the Confederate raid on his supply depot in nearby Holly Springs, Mississippi - the real event behind the fictionalized raid that Gail Hightower obsesses over in Light in August.
Ontological Status:
Historical/Real
Individual or Group:
Individual
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