Out of towners who stay at "the hotel" in Jefferson are categorized as "drummers and lawyers and court-witnesses" (189). "Drummers" are traveling salesmen.
Children from various neighborhoods all follow the wagon that delivers ice to the inhabitants of Jefferson, "eating the fragments of ice which the Negro driver chipped off for them" (189).
There are only a few references to the black population of Jefferson. The narrative qualifies its representation of progress ("there were electric lights and running water in almost every house in town") by noting an exception - "except the cabins of Negroes" (189). It is also clearly implied in a later passage that those cabins lacked screens to keep the bugs out (190).
Describing the unveiling of Jefferson's Confederate monument in 1900, the narrative notes that "sons" of the "old men in gray" who attend the ceremony "had already died in blue coats in Cuba" - i.e. had died serving in the US Army during the Spanish-American War (189).
The "masons who erect" the Confederate statue in Courthouse Square are mentioned, but not described (189). They should not be confused with the "Masons" - the members of the secret society who are mentioned in The Town.
"The U.D.C. ladies" who "instigated and bought" the Confederate statue at the center of Jefferson are members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization of Southern women that was founded in 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee (188). Members actively served the 'Lost Cause' of the Old South and the Confederacy by sponsoring the construction of monuments, lobbying boards of education, and so on.
The "Burnside" who makes the list of men who heard the "hackle-lifting" rebel yell was the commanding general of the Union Army at the battle of Fredericksburg (188).
The "Pope" on the novel's list of Civil War generals on both sides who had heard the "shrill hackle-lifting" rebel yell in battle is General John Pope, who was in command of the Union Army at the Second Battle of Bull Run (known in the South as Second Manassas, 188). (He almost appears in Faulkner's first Yoknapatawpha fiction, but is not there when Jeb Stuart and Bayard Sartoris raid his headquarters.)
The "Hooker" who gets a spot on the list of the Civil War generals on both sides who had heard the "shrill hackle-lifting" rebel yell in battle is General Joseph Hooker (188); his incompetence at the battle of Chancellorsville is briefly noted in Go Down, Moses.
