The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

One of the Confederate officers who rides with J.E.B. Stuart; it is on his horse that the captured Union Major is carried. (He does not seem to be related in any way to the Wyatt sisters who lives near the Benbows in Jefferson.)

One of the blacks who sharecrops on the Sartoris estate; the possum hunt that Bayard and Narcissa go on with Caspey and Isom begins behind his cabin. ("Unc" is almost certainly short for "uncle," the familiar but demeaning label that was regularly affixed on many black male characters in the South, and more than once in Faulkner's fictions.)

A Royal Air Force flyer who agrees to serve as bait to lure Ploeckner into the sights of Bayard's fighter.

Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron," shot down more planes than any other aviator in World War I. Young Bayard tells his grandfather and great-great-aunt that the German pilot who shot down Johnny was a "pupil of Richthofen's" (43).

Referred to by Monaghan as "that big Irish devil" (387), Comyn was Royal Air Force flyer (identified in "Ad Astra" as a lieutenant) with whom Young Bayard and Johnny Sartoris flew during World War I.

Dr. Straud is New York surgeon and medical researcher with whom Dr. Peabody's son, Lucius Jr., works. The novel says his "name is a household word" (400), and Lucius says the doctor has "been experimenting with electricity" (401).

Watts doesn't appear in the novel as a character, but his name appears when Virgil Bearch tells Byron that the air rifle he covets is for sale at "Watts' hardware store" (108). So it seems safe to say that Watts owns Jefferson's hardware store - though in Faulkner's next novel, The Sound and the Fury, the store belongs to a man named Earl, and later texts it will belong to Ike McCaslin.

He was Colonel Sartoris' partner in building the railroad through Yoknapatawpha until they fell out; after Sartoris defeated him in an election in 1876, Redlaw shot and killed him on the street in front of the courthouse. His name changes to "Ben Redmond" in The Unvanquished, where he also plays a larger role.

The woman who owns the boarding house in Jefferson where the two Freedmen's Bureau Agents are staying; according to Will Falls' story about the event, she stands "gapin' after him with her mouth open" when Colonel Sartoris goes up to their room and shoots them both (243).

Will Falls calls the two men who work for the U.S. Freedmen's Bureau and try to preserve the newly won rights of emancipated slaves "them two cyarpet-baggers" when he tells the story of how Colonel Sartoris drove them away from the voting place and then shot them in Mrs. Winterbottom's boarding house (23). In Light in August we learn that they are both named Calvin Burden, and are Joanna's grandfather and half-brother.