Unnamed Confederate Soldiers 3
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Unnamed Confederate Soldiers 3
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Unnamed Confederate Soldiers 3
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
There are over a dozen different groups of "Confederate soldiers" referred to in the fictions. The "Carolina boys" whom Gombault refers to in "The Tall Men" are based on a historical fact: on the night after the first day's fighting at Chancellorsville, while reconnoitering for a possible attack, General Stonewall Jackson was fatally shot by his own troops in the 33rd North Carolina regiment (54).