Hiram Hightower

Submitted by sfr on Tue, 2015-11-24 11:39
Text: 
The Reivers
Character Key: 
Hiram Hightower
Display Name: 
Hiram Hightower
Sort Name: 
Hightower, Hiram
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
Occupation: 
Professional
Specific Job: 
Baptist Minister
First Mentioned: 
Ballenbaugh's in The Reivers (Location)
Biography: 

The man who in 1886 "converts the entire settlement" at Ballenbaugh's "with his fists" is named Hiram Hightower (74). His description allows us to say for sure that he is "a giant of a man," and served during the Civil War as both a "trooper" and a "chaplain" in Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry unit (74). On the other hand, the narrative says nothing about a possible relationship between this Hiram Hightower and the two Gail Hightower's in Light in August, the senior a Confederate cavalryman and chaplain who is killed in 1863, and the junior his grandson, a Presbyterian minister and one of Faulkner's more memorable characters, but since these Hightowers are from a different part of Mississippi, it's unlikely that there is any relationship.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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