Unnamed Confederate Veterans 3
Character Key Number:
1041
Display Name:
Unnamed Confederate Veterans 3
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Unnamed Confederate Veterans 3
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
The Confederate veterans in Absalom! are brought into existence by Shreve, who is a Canadian who has never been to the South. He imagines the "veterans in the neat brushed hand-ironed gray and the spurious bronze medals that never meant anything to begin with," decked out for a "Decoration Day" ceremony "fifty years" after Bon's June visit to Sutpen's Hundred (262).