The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

A General in the Confederate Army. In 1863 he was in charge of Confederate forces in the western theater of the war.

Famous Confederate General who earned his nickname during the first Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas).

The leader of the sixty Yankees whom Sartoris captures. The officer ruefully says, "Colonel, by God I believe you have fooled us" (68).

This icon represents two different groups of Union soldiers in Mississippi: the "column of Yankee infantry" that passes by Bayard and his father's troop hiding in the woods (64) and the sixty Yankees that Colonel Sartoris, with some involuntary help from Bayard and Ringo, captures when he inadvertently rides into them eating by a creek (67).

In a confusing scene, Bayard sees "six men running in the next field" and then "ten or twelve" or perhaps more who may be chasing the first six or may be part of the same group (57-8). At least some of them are stealing the "stock," i.e. the livestock, of the farmers in the area, and "five men" from the second group attack Granny and her party (58).

Confederate Cavalry Officer who warns Granny that she should turn back because "the roads ahead are full of Yankee patrols" (56). He apologizes for saying "hell" in her presence, and is chivalrous enough to offer her "an escort" when she insists on going on (56).

This is the cavalry unit (size not mentioned) that stops to talk with Granny and her party on "the third night" of their journey toward Memphis (56).

These are the people who live in the various "houses on the road" to Memphis; "at least once a day" Granny, Bayard and Ringo stop to eat with them (55). Probably they are predominantly women and children, since so many white southern men are away at the War.

This is the Union soldier who was captured by the Confederate unit camped outside Jefferson; according to its captain, he was sure that Sartoris had more than a thousand men in his troop.

A group of Confederate irregulars that ride with Colonel Sartoris. As Bayard says, unlike the first unit that Sartoris organized in Yoknapatawpha, it's "not a regiment," containing only "about fifty" men (53). Their main goal seems to be harassing the Union troops in Mississippi, though because of their numbers they often have to hide from the Yankees instead. They stay together after the end of the Civil War and support John Sartoris' efforts to prevent African Americans to vote.