Gavin Breckbridge was engaged to Drusilla before the Civil War, which means it is almost certain that he belonged to the upper class. He never appears directly in Faulkner's fiction, but his death while fighting for the Confederacy at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862 marks the moment when Drusilla "cuts her hair and put on man's clothes" (59).
Like John Sartoris, Dennison Hawk was a large plantation- and slave-owner who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War; he was killed at the Battle of Shiloh, and never appears directly in Faulkner's fiction. His Alabama plantation, Hawkhurst, was burned by the Yankees sometime after his death. He is the husband of Louisa, who is Granny's sister, and hence he is Bayard's uncle as well as Drusilla's and Denny's father.
The men whom the narrative refers to as "the two Burdens from Missouri" (66) would probably be called "carpetbaggers" by the white population of Yoknapatawpha, and are probably officially both agents of the local Freedmen's Bureau. These agencies were set up by the federal government in the defeated South to help the emancipated slaves understand and establish their rights, including (if they were adult males) the right to vote.
The men whom the narrative refers to as "the two Burdens from Missouri" (66) would probably be called "carpetbaggers" by the white population of Yoknapatawpha, and are probably officially both agents of the local Freedmen's Bureau. These agencies were set up by the federal government in the defeated South to help the emancipated slaves understand and establish their rights, including (if they were adult males) the right to vote.
The woman whom Bayard calls "Granny," Rosa Millard, is a major character in the first four Unvanquished stories. She is already dead when this story begins, but the exalted place she continues to occupy in Bayard's mind, and so in the story's narrative, is indicated by the fact that no matter who else sits down in it, he continues to refer to the "only chair" that survives after the burning of the plantation big house as "Granny's chair" (63, 69).
Ringo was born a slave, though in this story, as a result of both the Emancipation Proclamation and the South's defeat in the Civil War, he is legally free - or, as he puts it in the story, "I ain't a nigger any more. I done been abolished" (66). Even as a slave he occupied an intimate place in the Sartoris family, and plays a large role in all The Unvanquished stories, as both Bayard's personal servant and his friend. He is apparently the grandson of Louvinia, though the rest of his genealogy remains obscure.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2015-01-12 15:29
Philadelphy is the wife of Loosh. When Loosh choose to follow the Union army toward freedom, she "tries to stop him," as she tells "Miss Rosa" three times (35). She agrees with Rosa that leaving Sartoris leads not to "freedom," as Loosh declares, but to "misery and starvation" (35) - but, she adds reluctantly, "he my husband" (35), so she goes.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Mon, 2015-01-12 15:28
This company of Union cavalry storms the Sartoris plantation looking for John Sartoris. After he escapes, they dig up the buried silver and set fire to the mansion.
