Charles Stuart Compson vanishes "from one of Tarleton's regiments on a Georgia battlefield" in 1778 (326). It's not clear what battlefield Faulkner has in mind; there was fighting in Georgia during Revolutionary War, but Tarleton not involved in any of it.
After fleeing Scotland, Quentin Compson lived in "Carolina" (326). Faulkner's narrative does not say which Carolina - which is also the case with those other Yoknapatawpha families from "Carolina," the Sartorises and the McCaslins - but the most likely one is South Carolina, on account of the major port of Charleston.
The Compson family, like much of the white population of Yoknapatawpha, is originally from Scotland. The story mentions three different places in that country, all of them real: Glasgow is the home of the printer who was Quentin MacLachan's father; Perth is city in central Scotland where Quentin's mother's family lived and where he was brought up after death of both parents; and "Culloden Moor" is where the Jacobites (including Quentin) were decisively defeated in a battle with Great Britain in 1746.
"Wassi Town" is undoubtedly the way Faulkner (or rather, the Chickasaw Indians in the story) refer to Washington, D.C. - and the "gold tepee" where the "Great White Father" lives is Andrew Jackson's White House (326).
The government Agent to the Chickasaw tribe operates from a "long rambling onestorey mud-chinked building" that includes a "tradingpost store" (325). The "Agency" is already there where the first Compson in Mississippi arrives in 1811. In both this story and the later Requiem for a Nun (1950), it is described as the beginning of "Jefferson Mississippi" (325), but the "Appendix" does not provide any clear way to locate it in relation to the boundaries of the eventual town.
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Fri, 2018-02-09 12:00
Uncle Rodney's most recent married paramour lives here with her husband, and Rodney sends Georgie there to tell her the time and place of their rendezvous and to remind her to bring "all the jewelry" with her (282). Georgie notices that "the house was dark all right" and that there are "two magnolia trees" in the yard (282, 282). Although the story does not explicitly say who lives in this house, it is probably either the Tuckers or the Pruitts. Rodney has had or is having affairs with the women of both these marriages. We feel it's most likely that the house is where Mrs.
