Mrs. Carter MacCallum

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2019-01-13 16:28
Character Key Number: 
76
Display Name: 
Mrs. Carter MacCallum
Sort Name: 
MacCallum, Mrs. Carter
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

Virginius MacCallum's mother is not mentioned in Flags in the Dust, but in "The Tall Men" - where that character is referred to as "Old Anse" - this woman is identified as "a Carter," which explains his determination "to go all the way back to Virginia to do his fighting" at the start of the Civil War (54). (The Carters are one of the oldest white families in Virginia, dating back to the early 17th century.)

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