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The unnamed post office clerk whom Quentin asks about Anse's whereabouts is wearing a "frock coat" and "reading a newspaper" (130). and wears a frock coat. He suggests Quentin take the girl "past them houses by the river" (130).

This unnamed man tells Quentin that the marshal is not there, and that he doesn't recognize the little girl with Quentin: "Them furriners. I cant tell one from another" (130). But he does point Quentin toward the district where those 'foreigners' live.

Two unnamed men sitting in front of a store who talk to Quentin during his attempt to find the home of the little girl he met in the bakery.

The troop of Confederate cavalry under the command of General Van Dorn to which Hightower's grandfather belonged that rode into Jefferson and destroyed a Union supply depot, after which most of them rode away. This event that Hightower is obsessed with is adapted by Faulkner from an actual raid that occurred in 1862 in Holly Springs, a Mississippi town near Oxford/Jefferson.

He lives in a cabin "on the edge of town immediately behind" Hightower's house, and when his wife goes into labor he seeks help from Hightower (73). The narrative suggests that he is afraid to approach a white woman to ask for help: "Hightower knew that the man would walk all the way to town . . . instead of asking some white woman to telephone for him" (74).