Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Mon, 2015-02-23 15:55
Ringo is of the same age as his companion, Bayard Sartoris. He was born a slave. Since the Emancipation Proclamation was proclaimed in January 1863, technically he is not a slave anymore; however, he continues his role as a servant. His demeanor is not submissive, however, as demonstrated by how crucially he functions in negotiations with Union soldiers. Ringo uses the opportunity that presents itself, which is based on misunderstanding and a clerical error - as well as on his ability to out-think the Union soldiers - to secure 122 mules from the Union army for Rosa Millard.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Mon, 2015-02-23 15:49
Bayard Sartoris is the adolescent narrator of "Raid" and the other stories in Faulkner's The Unvanquished series. At least a year older than in the first of those stories, he is still young and impressionable: he obediently follows his Granny's commands as they pursue the Yankees and the family silver, and he is a bit awestruck by his cousin Drusilla. His innocence serves to register the chaotic and violent reality of the war, and it seems safe to say that he returns from the "raid" having taken another step on the journey toward maturity that the series recounts.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Mon, 2015-02-23 15:22
Mrs. Compson plays an offstage role in this story. Rosa Millard wears her hat and is shaded by her parasol on trip into Alabama. This "Mrs. Compson" is probably the wife of General Compson (and so the grandmother of Quentin, Caddy, Jason and Benjy in The Sound and the Fury).
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Mon, 2015-02-23 15:14
In this third Unvanquished story, Rosa Millard takes her determination to maintain the plantation in the absence of her son-in-law, Colonel Sartoris, on the road, launching her own kind of 'raid' against the Union troops who have been moving through and destroying the region. She leads Bayard and Ringo into Alabama in a campaign against the Yankees who burned Sartoris in the previous story in the series; her goal is to retrieve the family's silver and mules - along with a slave couple who have followed the Union troops in quest of freedom.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Mon, 2015-02-23 13:50
This location 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 in "Raid."
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Mon, 2015-02-23 13:45
Rosa Millard and her party re-cross the river at a ford twenty miles downstream from the main Union camp. A Union troop of cavalry is camped at the bottom of the bluff protecting the ford.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Mon, 2015-02-23 13:42
To make their way back to Yoknapatawpha in "Raid," Rosa Millard and her party re-cross the river at a ford twenty miles downstream from the main Union camp. A Union troop of cavalry is camped at the bottom of the bluff protecting the ford.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Mon, 2015-02-23 13:24
The Union army is camped less than a day's travel from Hawkhurst on the northern bank of a river - probably the Tennessee River in Alabama. The scene on the southern bank is very chaotic, as a huge crowd of self-emancipated slaves tries to get across the bridge to join the army, while Union troops try to hold them back. When those soldiers destroy the bridge, the wagon carrying Rosa Millard and her party floats across the river.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Mon, 2015-02-23 13:18
In "Raid" the Union army is camped less than a day's travel from Hawkhurst on the northern bank of a river - probably the Tennessee River in Alabama. The scene on the southern bank is very chaotic, as a huge crowd of self-emancipated slaves tries to get across the bridge to join the army, while Union troops try to hold them back. When those soldiers destroy the bridge, the wagon carrying Rosa Millard and her party floats across the river.
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2015-02-22 23:23
Shiloh, located in Southwestern Tennessee, was the location of a major battle in the Western theater during the U.S. Civil War. The battle took place on April 6-7th, 1862, and saw 23,746 casualties. In "Raid," Drusilla's fiancé, Gavin Breckbridge, is one of those casualties.
