Confederate Soldiers
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Display Name:
Confederate Soldiers
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Unnamed Confederate Soldiers
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
MultiClass Group
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Armed Forces
Specific Job:
Confederate Soldiers
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Biography:
In addition to the specific Confederate units who appear in the various stories that make up the novel Go Down, Moses is the abstract representation of these men whom Ike McCaslin imagines he sees when he looks at Lucas Beauchamp (who descends from slaves): "the face of a generation," "the composite tintype face of ten thousand undefeated Confederate soldiers almost indistinguishably caricatured, composed, cold" (104).
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Individual or Group:
Group
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