Unnamed Memphis Recruiting Officer

Character Key Number: 
1566
Display Name: 
Unnamed Memphis Recruiting Officer
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Unnamed Memphis Recruiting Officer
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

This is the serviceman in Flags in the Dust whom Montgomery Ward Snopes cons into declaring him medically unfit for military service by holding "a plug of chewing tobacco beneath his left armpit" all the way from Jefferson to Memphis (167).