Unnamed Union Cavalry 1

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498
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Unnamed Union Cavalry 1
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Unnamed Union Cavalry 1
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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In both Flags in the Dust and "Retreat" as a short story and again as a chapter in The Unvanquished, this company of Union cavalry rides up to the Sartoris plantation hoping to capture Colonel John Sartoris. In all three texts he is able to fool them long enough to escape, but in the last two the Yankees then dig up the family's buried silver and set fire to the mansion.