Redmond

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Redmond
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Redmond
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B.J. Redmond
Redlaw
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Middle Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Biography: 

Introduced into the novel as one of the "carpetbaggers in Jefferson" at the end of the Civil War (183), this man becomes a partner with Colonel Sartoris and General Compson in building a railroad connecting the town with the larger world. As in other fictions, he kills Sartoris after they quarrel. This is the only account, however, that describes him as a "carpetbagger," though a paradoxical one who "devotes no small portion of the fruit of his rapacity" - the money he has made from the war as a profiteer - "to restoring" the land which he originally pillaged (187).

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