Unnamed Federal Army Provost-Marshals
Character Key Number:
3154
Display Name:
Unnamed Federal Army Provost-Marshals
Sort Name:
Unnamed Federal Army Provost-Marshals
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The history of Jackson in Requiem for a Nun treats the "Federal provost-marshals" who came to the defeated South charged with protecting the rights of the slaves who were emancipated at the end of the Civil War according to the then-popular pro-Southern accounts of Reconstruction: the elections they preside over are described as corrupted by carpetbaggers (87).