Vicksburg, Mississippi in Requiem for a Nun (Location)

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2018-10-19 10:49
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Requiem for a Nun
Location Key: 
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Display Label: 
Vicksburg
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OutOfYoknapatawpha
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Text (when unambiguous)
Other Texts Location Appears In: 
"Ambuscade"
"Delta Autumn"
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"
"Race at Morning"
Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
The Unvanquished
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2298
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434
Description: 

Vicksburg, a city on steep bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, is mentioned in the novel as the port where the marble for the courthouse columns were transferred from a New Orleans steamboat to "a smaller steamboat" that could travel up the "Yazoo and Sunflower and Tallahatchie" rivers (36).

Role: 
Only Mentioned in Text
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
City

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