This icon represents the pilots whom Young Bayard evokes when he talks to Rafe MacCallum "about the war"; the narrator describes them as "young men like fallen angels, and of a meteoric violence like that of fallen angels" (123).
"Samson's bridge" is the site of young John Sartoris' adventure with the fox. When Rafe MacCallum tells the story, he gives no details about where it's located, except that it is on a "river" (353), but presumably it is the same bridge as the one next to Samson's store and farm in As I Lay Dying, and is so located here. This is a long ways away from the other MacCallum settings in the novel, but in As I Lay Dying one of the MacCallum boys is at Samson's when the Bundrens get there - making the idea that the family hunted in this southern part of Yoknapatawpha more plausi
In two of the three texts that mention "Samson's bridge" (As I Lay Dying, "Spotted Horses") there's no doubt that it crosses the Yoknapatawpha River near Frenchman's Bend - though much of it is under the river in the flood described in the novel. The bridge is first mentioned in Flags in the Dust, as the site of young John Sartoris' adventure with the fox (353). That story, told by Rafe MacCallum, gives no clue to the location of the river or the bridge, but we assume it's the same "Samson's bridge" as in the other texts.
The older of the two Negroes who work in Rogers' restaurant. The narrative does not explicitly call him the cook, but since it describes the cooking that is going on and identifies the "younger of the two," Houston, as the waiter, it seems safe to assume this older Negro is the cook.
This icon represents the other black soldiers whom Caspey Strother mentions in the stories about World War I he tells his family. He never mentions any of their names, usually referring to them as "boys," but he does refer specifically to two: "de Captain's dog-robber" and "a school boy" (59). (Caspey's stories are obviously wild exaggerations, if not outright inventions, but there were large numbers of African American soldiers -- enlisted men, draftees and officers -- who served during the war in one of the two all-black divisions created by the U.S. Army.)
