Caledonia, Mississippi (Location Key)

Like all the towns on Ringo's map of the campaign he and Granny conduct against the Union Army's livestock in The Unvanquished, "Caledonia" is a real town in Mississippi (126). It's in Lowndes County, north of Columbus and near the Alabama border. There is also a section of Yoknatawpha called Caledonia mentioned in The Town, and a Caledonia Chapel in Intruder in the Dust. "Caledonia" is the Latin name that the Romans gave northern Britain, and it became a synonym for Scotland. As several of the fictions note, many of the first white settlers in Mississippi of Scotch descent.