The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

In one of his memories Quentin berates Caddy for "letting it be some darn town squirt" who kissed her (134). A "town squirt" is presumably a young man from a lower class than the Compsons - that same implication is there in Quentin's reference to "the town squirts that Father was always teasing her about" (174) - but it's not clear if Quentin is thinking of any one particular boy here, or remembering any one particular event.

The unnamed post office clerk whom Quentin asks about Anse's whereabouts is wearing a "frock coat" and "reading a newspaper" (130). and wears a frock coat. He suggests Quentin take the girl "past them houses by the river" (130).

This unnamed man tells Quentin that the marshal is not there, and that he doesn't recognize the little girl with Quentin: "Them furriners. I cant tell one from another" (130). But he does point Quentin toward the district where those 'foreigners' live.

Two unnamed men sitting in front of a store who talk to Quentin during his attempt to find the home of the little girl he met in the bakery.

The troop of Confederate cavalry under the command of General Van Dorn to which Hightower's grandfather belonged that rode into Jefferson and destroyed a Union supply depot, after which most of them rode away. This event that Hightower is obsessed with is adapted by Faulkner from an actual raid that occurred in 1862 in Holly Springs, a Mississippi town near Oxford/Jefferson.