The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

This is the "alley behind the square" that Charles Mallison passes on his way home from school (209-10).

Captain Gualdres is stationed in Kansas as a private in the U.S. Army early in World War II.

When Charles Mallison returns to Jefferson after training, he sees "above the trees" the "gold cross on the spire of the Episcopal church" (253), which appears to serve as a landmark for "home" for him.

As the story ends, Charles Mallison is in uniform and on his way to Texas for training as a pilot ("from preflight to basic, airplanes at last," 252). The text doesn't say where in Texas he's going, but the most likely spot is Greenville, where in 1942 the Army opened a training field on the "flat land to the west" of Mississippi, as the later novel The Mansion puts it in a reference to this field.

For most of Yoknapatawpha's history, the Jefferson railroad station serves as the portal by which people come to and go out of the county. In "Knight's Gambit," when Charles Mallison passes through Jefferson on his way to basic training in Texas, his mother boards the train there to ride with him as far as the next junction (252).

When discussing the experience the veterans of foreign wars have had, Gavin Stevens compares "John Doe of Jefferson, Mississippi," to "Harry Wong of San Francisco" - using the Pacific city to represent one of America's communities of color (243).

When discussing the experience the veterans of foreign wars have had, Gavin Stevens compares John Doe of Jefferson, Mississippi, to "Charley Longfeather of Shoshone, Idaho" - using the Western location to represent one of America's communities of color (243).

When discussing the experience the veterans of foreign wars have had, Gavin Stevens compares John Doe of Jefferson, Mississippi, to "Joe Ginotta of East Orange, New Jersey" - using the eastern state to represent one of the country's non-British ethnic groups (243).

Harriss has fences along his plantation in "carefully panelled and railed oak and hickory designed in Virginia and Long Island" (241).

The fences that Harriss builds to define the boundaries of his estate are "handicrafted in Grand Rapids factories" (241). Grand Rapids, Michigan, was famous during most of the 20th century for producing quality wood furniture.