General Pope

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2013-02-17 15:47
Text: 
Flags in the Dust
Character Key: 
General John Pope
Display Name: 
General Pope
Sort Name: 
Pope, General John
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Middle Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
First Mentioned: 
Virginia in Civil War in Flags in the Dust (Location)
Date of Birth: 
Saturday, March 16, 1822
Origin: 
Kentucky
Cause of Death: 
Old Age
Real?: 
Yes
Other Texts: 
Requiem for a Nun
Biography: 

During the Civil War, General Pope was the general in command of the Union Army at the Second Battle of Bull Run in September, 1862. The story Jenny tells in Flags in the Dust about her brother Bayard accompanying General J.E.B. Stuart's raiding party to Pope's headquarters in Virginia in April, 1862, forms a mythic part of the Sartoris inheritance. In April 1862, however, Pope was in fact in Mississippi. It was his success there that led Lincoln soon afterwards to bring Pope east and put him in command of the North's Army of Virginia. He lost that position, however, after losing to Lee at Bull Run.

Ontological Status: 
Historical/Real
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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