This site represents several locations on the roads that Rosa Millard and her party take through Alabama and into Mississippi on their return trip to the Sartoris plantation.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-19 14:23
Bayard Sartoris is the narrator of "Vendee," though as in the other seven stories that he narrates, he is telling the story some years later. At the time of this story, Bayard is seeking vengeance for the murder of his grandmother Rosa Millard by Grumby and his gang of outlaws. Earlier he has taken a shot at a Yankee - with comic effect. Here, although his inexperience remains on display, the seriousness of his quest and the violence of its outcome feel like a step in his growth toward manhood.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-19 14:15
Where Grumby and his men had made camp that was recently vacated, indicating that Ringo and Bayard are very close behind them: "a fire still burning and a hog they had not even had time to butcher" (110).
