The novel's list of Civil War military leaders includes "the two Johnstons" (188). There were actually three Confederate Generals named Johnston, but it's likely that Faulkner is thinking of Joseph, who has his own character entry, and Albert S. Johnston, who was killed early in the War but not, according to the narrative, before he would have heard the Confederates' "shrill hackle-lifting yelling" during the fighting (188). (The other possibility is the less famous Robert D. Johnston.)
The ceremony at the unveiling of Jefferson's Confederate monument in 1900 includes the firing of a salute and a somewhat diminished version of the famed 'rebel yell' performed by the town's surviving veterans of the Civil War, "old men in the gray and braided coats" of officers - since they have apparently promoted themselves over the passing years (188).
A major character elsewhere in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, in Requiem "Mrs. Virginia DuPre, Colonel Sartoris's sister," makes a cameo appearance when she unveils the Confederate monument in Jefferson's Courthouse Square on Decoration Day, 1900 (188). She is perhaps the Faulkner character who most deserves the title of "the unvanquished." (Everywhere else her last name is written "Du Pre," not "DuPre.")
In an implicit critique of the modern South, the narrative notes that the daughters of the German blacksmith who deserted from the Union Army to become one of the carpetbaggers who preyed on Jefferson in time "become matriarchs and grandmothers of the town's new aristocracy" (183).
Like one of the earliest settlers in Jefferson, this man is "German" and a "blacksmith" (183), but they are very different figures. This man is one of the "carpetbaggers" who come to Jefferson at the end of the Civil War, a deserter from the Union Army who arrives "riding a mule" and, according to the tales that were later told about him, bringing with him "for saddle-blanket sheaf on sheaf of virgin and uncut United States banknotes" - no doubt nefariously obtained (183). Eventually his family becomes part of the "town's new aristocracy" (183).
There are four "Jason Compsons" in the Yoknapatawpha fictions. There are two in this novel, though only one, "the first Jason," is given a first name (187). Faulkner presumably expects readers to know from that phrase that this second Compson, the son of the "first Jason," is also named Jason. The story only refers to him by his military title. After serving as a General in the Confederacy, this man becomes a partner with Sartoris and Redmond in the building of the railroad "north into Tennessee" (187). When the partners quarrel, his share is bought out by the other two men.
Introduced into the novel as one of the "carpetbaggers in Jefferson" at the end of the Civil War (183), this man becomes a partner with Colonel Sartoris and General Compson in building a railroad connecting the town with the larger world. As in other fictions, he kills Sartoris after they quarrel. This is the only account, however, that describes him as a "carpetbagger," though a paradoxical one who "devotes no small portion of the fruit of his rapacity" - the money he has made from the war as a profiteer - "to restoring" the land which he originally pillaged (187).
