Unnamed Union Soldiers 4
Character Key Number:
2221
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Unnamed Union Soldiers 4
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Unnamed Union Soldiers 4
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Although Yankee soldiers do not appear directly in Light in August, according to the account of Van Dorn's cavalry raid that Hightower tells his wife Jefferson was "a garrisoned town," meaning that Union soldiers were stationed there, and to attack it the troop with which his grandfather rode had to travel "for a hundred miles through a country where every grove and hamlet had its Yankee bivouac" (483).