Sartoris Plantation Orchard (Location Key)

The orchard at the Sartoris plantation appears in four texts about the family during the Civil War, and in that context it's mainly the place where the Sartorises keep burying and un-burying the family valuables, to keep them out of the hands of the Yankees whom they expect are coming. When the Union troops do show up, in "Retreat," the slave named Loosh shows them "where the silver is buried" (74). Before and after the war a plantation orchard near the big house would have served both a decorative sign of status and a functional source of fruit like apples or pears.