(Carolina) Bayard Sartoris

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Text: 
Flags in the Dust
Character Key: 
Bayard Sartoris I
Display Name: 
(Carolina) Bayard Sartoris
Sort Name: 
Sartoris, (Carolina) Bayard
Parent: 
Colonel John Sartoris' Mother
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Secondary
Vitality: 
Dead
Family: 
Sartoris
Family (new): 
SartorissInFD
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
Specific Job: 
Confederate Cavalry Officer
First Mentioned: 
Virginia in Civil War in Flags in the Dust (Location)
Date of Birth: 
Tuesday, January 1, 1839 to Thursday, December 31, 1840
Origin: 
Carolina
Cause of Death: 
War
Other Texts: 
The Unvanquished
Biography: 

In Aunt Jenny's stories, at least, this Bayard is an incredibly romantic figure, likened to "Richard First . . . before he went crusading" (11). During the Civil War he is Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's dashing aide-de-camp who is killed (by an unnamed Union cook who shoots him in the back) when he rides alone into a Union camp to disprove the assertion that "No gentleman has any business in this war" (17).

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 
Date of Death: 
Tuesday, April 1, 1862 to Wednesday, April 30, 1862

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