The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

The "David Crockett" whom Aunt Jenny mentions is much better known as Davy (244). He was a frontiersman, U.S. Congressman and soldier. His death among the Americans at the Alamo in 1836 ensured him a spot in the annals of American lore.

These blockade runners smuggled in provisions through the Union naval blockade for the inhabitants of Charleston. In Aunt Jenny's estimation, they were "heroes in a way" (244).

Not much is said in this novel about John Sartoris' younger brother, but the story of his death during the Civil War is told, romantically, in Flags in the Dust. Bayard was named after him.

Bayard assumes this "watchman" or "picquet" must have been watching to report his arrival at Sartoris to the other veterans of "Father's old troop" (232); he does not actually appear in the novel.

All we know about Virginia Du Pre's husband is the couple was able to "spent a few nights together" before he was killed during the Civil War (229). He died of wounds received "by a shell from a federal frigate at Fort Moultire" (235).

This entry represents the group whom Bayard refers to as "the men who have written" of the kind of woman he identifies Drusilla with at this point in the story: the "woman of thirty" (228). He does not mention any by name, but Balzac was one of Faulkner's favorite writers, and he may be even be thinking of the character Julie in Honoré de Balzac's 1842 novel La Femme de trente ans (A Woman of Thirty).

This is the "band" that plays at the station when Colonel Sartoris drives the first train on the newly finished track into Jefferson (226).

These girls in "white dresses and red sashes" celebrate the inaugural arrival of the John Sartoris' railroad (226).

This icon represents the "some northern people" - presumably bankers or businessmen - who sell John Sartoris a locomotive on credit (225).