The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

In addition to the specific Confederate units who appear in the various stories that make up the novel Go Down, Moses is the abstract representation of these men whom Ike McCaslin imagines he sees when he looks at Lucas Beauchamp (who descends from slaves): "the face of a generation," "the composite tintype face of ten thousand undefeated Confederate soldiers almost indistinguishably caricatured, composed, cold" (104).

Samuel Beauchamp's father "deserted him" when he was born and is "now in the state penitentiary for manslaughter" (354). Gavin Stevens describes him as "not only violent but bad," and attributes his son's criminality to what he inherited from this man's "seed" (354).

The child is the third of Tomey’s Turl and Tennie Beauchamp, and also the third to die in infancy.

The driver is hired by Gavin Stevens to drive Belle Worsham and Molly Beauchamp in Stevens' car from the train station to the McCaslin plantation.

Described as "the Negro undertaker's men" (363), this group awaits Samuel Beauchamp's casket at the Jefferson train station and helps load it into the hearse.

These municipal officials visit Gavin Stevens' office while he is absent canvassing the Square for donations to defray the costs of bringing Samuel Beauchamp back to Jefferson for burial. The narrator identifies them only as "officials from the city hall and justices of the peace and bailiffs" from various parts of Yoknapatawpha (360).

Gavin Stevens calls an undertaker in Joliet, Illinois, to arrange for Samuel Beauchamp's body to be sent back to Jefferson after the execution.

Gavin Stevens calls the Chicago District Attorney to gather information on Samuel Beauchamp.

Gavin Stevens calls the warden at the penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois, to gather information about Samuel Beauchamp.