Uncle Buck McCaslin

Character Key: 
Display Name: 
Uncle Buck McCaslin
Sort Name: 
McCaslin, Uncle Buck
AKA: 
Theophilus McCaslin
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
McCaslin
Family (new): 
Occupation: 
Management
Specific Job: 
Planter
Origin: 
Yoknapatawpha
Biography: 

Like the Sartorises, the McCaslins are planters who were among the first white settlers of Yoknapatawtpha; they are at the center of the later novel, Go Down, Moses. "Uncle" is a courtesy title for Buck. The scene Bayard recalls in this story, of him and Ringo speaking with Buck and an unnamed Confederate captain in town shortly before the Yankees burned it, appears in "Retreat."

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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