According to the narrator of both "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" and The Hamlet, the people who died at the Old Frenchman place when it was a working antebellum plantation were buried in a cemetery that lies "on a smaller knoll" than the mansion house and "four hundred yards" away from it (136, 375). Their "weathered and illegible headstones" remain (136, 375). Apparently slaves were buried there too, since the narrative says that "the progenitors of saxophone players in Harlem honky-tonks" lie there with the kinfolks of the Old Frenchman (136, 375).
The garden where V.K. Ratliff falls into Flem Snopes trap is described (in "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard") as an "inscrutable desolation of cedar and brier and crapemyrtle and calycanthus gone lush and wild" (140), and in The Hamlet as mass of "man-tall briers and weeds and persimmon shoots" (374). Before the Civil War it was the Old Frenchman's "rose-garden" (375); it lies on "a vague slope" that rises to the "shaggy crest" on which the ruins of the mansion house stand (375).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2016-05-23 07:29
The site of a Civil War battle fought from July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle incurred the largest number of casualties of the war. In his argument about Southern history with his cousin Ike, Roth Edmonds names "Cemetery Ridge" (272), the site of Pickett's failed Confederate infantry charge against the Union army on the last day of the battle.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2016-05-23 07:22
Two major Civil War battles were fought a year but just a few miles apart near Chancellorsville in Spotsylvania County. The first, called the Battle of Chancellorsville, took place between April 30 to May 6, 1863. In the account of this event that Cass Edmonds provides, the Union Army General Joseph Hooker sits on the front gallery of a house in Chancellorsville "drinking rum toddies and telegraphing Lincoln that he had defeated Lee" (272), although the the battle with General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army would ultimately in Hooker's defeat.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2016-05-23 07:10
Sharpsburg was the site of a very bloody Civil War battle on September 17, 1862. Known in the North as Antietam, its importance is usually measured by the fact that there Union forces repulsed Robert E. Lee's first attempt to invade the North and threaten Washington, D.C. The novel doesn't provide that context, but as part of his argument that the Southern cause was lost to an unjust fate, Cass Edmonds does refer to the time "Lee's battle-order" accidentally became known to his enemies; and the way "Lee divided his forces" before the battle (272).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Mon, 2016-05-23 07:04
Sharpsburg was the site of a very bloody Civil War battle on September 17, 1862; it is known in the North as the Battle of Antietam. Its importance is usually measured by the fact that there Union forces repulsed Robert E. Lee's first attempt to invade the North and threaten Washington, D.C. The references to it in Go Down, Moses don't mention that, but do refer to the daring way "Lee divided his forces" at the start of the invasion" and the accidental way "Lee's battle-order" became known to his enemies (272).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2016-05-20 06:05
The metal sign at this location marks the boundary between the county of Yoknapatawpha and the town. It reads "Jefferson, Corporate Limit" (364). At this point, the pavement vanishes, and the street slants away into another hill, becoming gravel. It is the spot at which Go Down, Moses ends.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2016-05-20 06:01
A hub of transportation and commerce, the Jefferson railroad station appears in many of Faulkner's works. It lies at the bottom of a "long hill" that runs "up from the station" to the Square (363).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2016-05-20 05:44
During the Great Migration, Chicago was a major destination for blacks leaving the rural South. Samuel Worsham Beauchamp heads to Chicago after escaping from the county jail in Jefferson, Mississippi. Gavin Stevens calls the District Attorney's office there.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Fri, 2016-05-20 05:35
Gavin Stevens refers to the store that Samuel Worsham Beauchamp is caught breaking into as "Rouncewell's" (355). It is located in Jefferson (354), but exactly where is not specified. And while in several of the fictions the Rouncewells run a boarding house in Jefferson, and in The Town Mrs. Rouncewell is the town's florist, none of that helps us figure out what is sold in the store here. It's not likely to be flowers.
