Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2016-07-03 18:07
The top sergeant in the Union troop that arrives at Sartoris is named Harrison. He may be the Yankee who is first spotted by Ringo and Bayard looking at the plantation through field glasses; if so, it is his horse that they kill attempting to shoot him. He was clearly angered by that shooting, which cost the regiment "the best horse in the whole army" (29). Much more hostile to Rosa Millard than his commanding officer, he orders other soldiers to search the house in search of the "little devils" who did the shooting (29).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Mon, 2016-06-27 15:52
In addition to the specific Confederate units who appear in the various stories that make up the novel Go Down, Moses is the abstract representation of these men whom Ike McCaslin imagines he sees when he looks at Lucas Beauchamp (who descends from slaves): "the face of a generation," "the composite tintype face of ten thousand undefeated Confederate soldiers almost indistinguishably caricatured, composed, cold" (104).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Mon, 2016-06-27 15:15
Samuel Beauchamp's father "deserted him" when he was born and is "now in the state penitentiary for manslaughter" (354). Gavin Stevens describes him as "not only violent but bad," and attributes his son's criminality to what he inherited from this man's "seed" (354).
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2016-06-24 18:01
Described as "the Negro undertaker's men" (363), this group awaits Samuel Beauchamp's casket at the Jefferson train station and helps load it into the hearse.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2016-06-24 17:52
These municipal officials visit Gavin Stevens' office while he is absent canvassing the Square for donations to defray the costs of bringing Samuel Beauchamp back to Jefferson for burial. The narrator identifies them only as "officials from the city hall and justices of the peace and bailiffs" from various parts of Yoknapatawpha (360).
