Submitted by lorie.watkins@g... on Sun, 2016-08-14 12:43
There are several references in "The Tall Men" to "county agents" in general. This is "the county agent's young fellow" who visits the McCallums periodically to explain the new federal programs that regulate agricultural production (57). He works for the federal government as part of the Roosevelt administration's efforts during the Depression to improve farm practices in places like the deep South. To the McCallums, this is the "the Government" that wants to "interfere with how a man farmed his own land" (55).
Submitted by lorie.watkins@g... on Sun, 2016-08-14 12:35
After serving in the Civil War's western theater, the Union general Philip Sheridan came east when Ulysses S. Grant appointed him to command the cavalry forces in the Army of the Potomac. What Gumbault tells Pearson about how "Sheridan's calvary blocked the road from Appomattox to the Valley" at the very end of the war is accurate (54).
