The Unvanquished, 52 (Event)

Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Wed, 2016-08-17 22:28
Text: 
The Unvanquished
Location: 
Virginia in the Civil War in The Unvanquished (Location)
Page Number: 
52
Order within Page: 
3
First 8-10 words of event: 
elected him colonel and followed him and Stonewall Jackson
Page Event Ends: 
52
Era: 
Civil War (1861-1865)
Characters Present: 
Colonel John Sartoris
Colonel Sutpen
Unnamed Members of Sartoris' First Regiment
Characters Mentioned: 
General Stonewall Jackson
Narrative Status: 
Told
Date: 
Saturday, April 13, 1861 to Sunday, September 20, 1863
Summary: 

Uncle Buck McCaslin tells how the men in John Sartoris' first regiment elected him colonel and followed "him and Stonewall Jackson" to the edge of Washington, D.C. with minimal casualties, but then changed course "the next year," voting to demote him to replace him with Sutpen, "a damn feller that never even knowed which end of a gun done the shooting until John Sartoris showed him" (52).

Chronological Order: 
19.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Rank:Colonel, General, Civil War, Election, Capital, Casualties, Loss, Washington, D.C., Military Rank:Major, Demotion, Weapon:Gun, Shooting, Politics
Cultural Issues:
Politics›Democracy | War›Campaign | War›Confederate Army
Aesthetics:
Allusion, Geographical›Washington, D.C. | Recurring Episodes›Sartoris deposed

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