Unnamed Members of Sartoris' Regiment

Colonel Sartoris' first military command was the regiment he raised at the beginning of the Civil War. Uncle Buck says Sartoris "bought and paid for" it, though no further details about that are provided (21). During the war's first year he led it as part of Stonewall Jackson's corps in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, but at the end of that year the soldiers voted him out of the command. According to Uncle Buck, that action proves that these men "wasn't a regiment of soldiers but a congress of politicians and fools" (21).