River Heights South of Jefferson (Location Key)

Confederate troops and Union troops are seen separately in Yoknapatawpha in a number of texts with Civil War settings, but this location in Requiem for a Nun is connected with one of the few instances where they encounter each other. When Union forces attack Jefferson during the Civil War, the Confederates fall back from the fighting at the creek on the Sartoris plantation "to a stronger line on the river heights south of the town" (182). There does not seem to be any fighting here, though after the Confederate retreat the Yankees occupy and burn the town itself.