Vicksburg, Mississippi in Requiem for a Nun (Location)
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Location Key:
Display Label:
Vicksburg
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OutOfYoknapatawpha
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2298
Y:
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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