General Smith

Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Mon, 2018-05-14 11:07
Text: 
"Appendix: Compson"
Character Key: 
General Smith
Display Name: 
General Smith
Sort Name: 
Smith, General
AKA: 
General Andrew Jackson Smith
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Middle Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Dead
Occupation: 
Armed Forces
Specific Job: 
Union Officer
First Mentioned: 
Compson Place in "Appendix: Compson" (Location)
Date of Birth: 
Friday, April 28, 1815
Origin: 
Pennsylvania
Other Texts: 
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"
"The Unvanquished"
The Unvanquished
Biography: 

Most scholars assume the General Smith who appears here and also in "The Unvanquished" and "My Grandmother Millard" is Andrew Jackson Smith, who led the Union forces at the Battle of Tupelo in July, 1864. Faulkner had a particular reason to know this Smith: that same summer he led the Union soldiers who burned both Oxford (the original of Jefferson) and Ripley, where among the houses they destroyed was the home of Colonel William Falkner, the author's great-grandfather.

Ontological Status: 
Historical/Real
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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