Unnamed Union General 2

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2020-02-05 13:56
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Unnamed Union General 2
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Unnamed Union General 2
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In Requiem for a Nun the carpetbagger named Redmond associates himself with this general, "the brigadier commanding the force which occupied Jefferson" (183). (Historically, the Union forces who burned (but did not occupy) Oxford in 1863 were under the command of General Andrew Jackson Smith, who is mentioned as "General Smith" in other Yoknapatawpha fictions.)

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