Sometime after the Civil War, Philip and Melisandre move into a house where Bayard sees "framed under glass" Granny's letter about the death of Lieutenant P. S. Backhouse (696). The story provides no clue about where the couple is living, but a generation or two later Melisandre Backus grows up in Jefferson; her marriage to Gavin Stevens is narrated in The Mansion (1960). On that basis we have located this house in town.
Sometime after the Civil War and the main events of "My Grandmother Millard," Philip and Melisandre Backus move into a house where Bayard sees "framed under glass" Granny's letter about the death of Lieutenant P. S. Backhouse (696). Philip is from Tennessee, and Melisandre from Memphis. The story does not say where the couple is living after their marriage, but a generation or two later Melisandre Backus grows up on a plantation six miles from Jefferson; her marriage to Gavin Stevens is narrated in The Mansion (1960).
A General in the Confederate Army. Although in the story Forrest says General Johnston is "at Jackson" in Mississippi, at the time of the battle of Harrykin Creek - April 1862 - he was actually fighting in Virginia. (He was put in charge of Confederate forces in the western theater of the war, which included Mississippi, at the end of 1862.)
