Unnamed Confederate Veterans

Submitted by jbc@ku.edu on Wed, 2017-09-27 16:10
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The Town
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Unnamed Confederate Veterans 5
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Unnamed Confederate Veterans
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Unnamed Confederate Veterans
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
MultiClass Group
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Courthouse and Square in The Town (Location)
Biography: 

This icon represents the group that Gavin Stevens refers to, with a mix of cynicism and sentimentality, as the "heroes of our gallant lost irrevocable unreconstructible debacle" - the aging Confederate veterans who "half a century" after the end of the Civil War are revered by "all" the people of Yoknapatawpha (44). As Charles Mallison explains, the descendants of these men are often "called General or Colonel or Major because their fathers or grandfathers had been generals or colonels or majors or maybe just privates" (10). The military titles of two major characters in The Town - "Colonel" Bayard Sartoris and "Major" Manfred de Spain - are of this honorary nature, inherited from their fathers.

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