Unnamed Union Soldiers 2

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Unnamed Union Soldiers 2
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Unnamed Union Soldiers 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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In Flags in the Dust and again in "Retreat" both as a short story and as a chapter in The Unvanquished, this company of Union soldiers is captured by Colonel Sartoris. In the first novel he does so single-handedly, but in the next to he has some (involuntary) help from Bayard and Ringo. In those two texts we assume this group is the "column of Yankee infantry" that earlier passes by Bayard and his father's troop hiding in the woods (30, 67).