Unnamed Union Officers
Character Key Number:
2804
Display Name:
Unnamed Union Officers
Sort Name:
Unnamed Union Officers
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
According to "the tale told" in Go Down, Moses, this group of Union officers were sitting "in the leather chairs spitting into the tall bright cuspidors" in the lobby of the Gayoso Hotel in Memphis when they were surprised by a party of Confederate cavalry (221). (See Unnamed Union General 3 elsewhere in this index.)