Buzzard Egglestone
Character Key Number:
3123
Display Name:
Buzzard Egglestone
Sort Name:
Egglestone, Beroth Bullard "Buzzard"
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Beroth Egglestone is a real man who served in the Civil War as a Union General. Afterwards he settled in Mississippi as a planter, and in 1868 was elected Governor of the state as a Republican by the constitutional convention held in Jackson. But since Mississippi had not yet been re-admitted to the Union, he never served in that office. To unreconstructed Mississippians, he was a carpetbagger, which explains how he acquired the unflattering sobriquet that Requiem for a Nun uses to refer to him: "Buzzard" (87).