Baltimore, Maryland (Location Key)

Though Maryland did not secede from the U.S. to join the Confederacy, it was a slave state in 1858, when, according to the story she tells in 1869, Miss Jenny Sartoris waltzed with J.E.B. Stuart at a ball in Baltimore. Baltimore is the largest city in Maryland. A cavalry officer who during the Civil War who became one of the Confederacy's most famous military heroes, Stuart was from Virginia. Jenny was from Carolina. The novel does not say why either person was in Baltimore.