The Negro chauffeur who offers to fetch Miss Jenny's driver Simon from the kitchen at the Mitchell house is "clad in army o.d. and a pair of linoleum putties" (30). ("O.d." is a military way of saying 'olive drab.')
This man and Colonel Sartoris met while they were both servng in the Mexican War. After the Civil War, Sartoris brings him to Yoknapatawpha to help with the building of the railroad. He seems bemused by Jenny Du Pre's story about "Carolina" Bayard in the one scene in which he appears.
Two years younger than Bayard, she was sent with her older sister to Memphis during the Civil War, but is back at the Sartoris plantation at Christmas time, 1869, to hear Aunt Jenny tell the story of "Carolina" Bayard's death. Other than that, like her sister she remains very elusive as a character. (Faulkner presumably includes this daughter in the later short story "There Was a Queen" when Elnora mentions the Sartoris children, but that is an assumption.)
Twenty-two years old when Jenny Du Pre arrives in Mississippi, and so two years older than Bayard, she is not named or described. From Will Falls' story we learn that she and her younger sister were sent to Memphis during the Civil War; the narrator tells us later that she is planning to marry in June, 1870.
As the narrator says, "the Sartoris place was farmed on shares" (289). The black tenant farmers are not slaves, though Simon thinks of them as "field niggers," a label left over from slavery (241). In the narrative these share croppers are more like part of the landscape than characters, but they are mentioned several times - first when they "raise their hands" to "salute" Bayard as he drives home from the bank at the beginning of the novel (8).
He is mentioned by Old Man Falls simply as "that other feller" Colonel John Sartoris killed sometime after the Civil War, "when he had to start killin' folks" (23). (He may be the same character as the "hill man Sartoris kills in The Unvanquished [221], but that is not clear.)
Not named or described except as "that robber" whom Colonel John Sartoris killed (23), probably as he was trying to rob the money Sartoris carried as he was building the railroad through Yoknapatawpha. (This character and "that other feller" Sartoris kills in this novel seem combined into the character of the unnamed "hill man" in The Unvanquished, 23.)
This generic icon represents the numerous black men, women and children whose slow-moving, mule-drawn wagons Young Bayard finds some strange pleasure in frightening by nearly hitting them as he drives his powerful car around the county's roads. They are never named or individualized, except by their alarmed faces and rolling eyes.
Described as having "a head like a monk's," this waiter struggles with the woman who has stolen the drunken Harry Mitchell's diamond tiepin, though there is no way to know if his intention is to return it or to keep it for himself (388).
