Hurricane Creek|Creek Bottom at Sartoris Place in "Ambuscade" (Location)

Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Sat, 2013-07-13 02:25
Text: 
"Ambuscade"
Location Key: 
Hurricane Creek and Bottom
Display Label: 
Mule Pen in Creek Bottom
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Event
Authority : 
Context (text, as interpreted)
Other Texts Location Appears In: 
"A Name for the City"
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"
"Retreat"
"Skirmish at Sartoris"
"There Was a Queen"
Requiem for a Nun
The Mansion
The Reivers
The Town
The Unvanquished
X: 
1156
Y: 
343
Description: 

As the Union troops move closer to Yoknapatawpha, Colonel Sartoris builds a pen "deep in the creek bottom" behind his plantation house to hide his mules and other livestock (11). A "bottom" in the local dialect refers to the land along the sides of a creek, which is usually dense with underbrush and can be swampy.

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Branch; Bottom; Livestock Lot

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