Jefferson Square Monument in "Go Down, Moses" (Location)

Jefferson's Confederate monument, as it's most often called, is a generic Southern soldier atop a tall pedestal in front of the courthouse in the Square at the center of town. It appears in 8 fictions. According to Requiem for a Nun, it was "instigated" and paid for by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (a real Southern organization) and officially unveiled on "Confederate Decoration Day" in 1900 (189). Requiem provides the most details about the statue. It signifies the most in The Sound and the Fury, where it provides the novel with its harrowing and empty final scene. There's an echo of that scene in the statue's appearance in this story, which is also at the very end, when the hearse carrying the body of Samuel Worsham Beauchamp "circles the Confederate monument" on its way "home" to the cemetery (265).