The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

"Brother" Fortinbride is a character in two of The Unvanquished stories. A private in Sartoris' regiment, he was seriously wounded in battle at the start of the war. Invalided back to Yoknapatawpha, in "The Unvanquished" he helps Rosa distribute money and mules to the county's poor: although he is a farmer, and a Methodist, he officiates as a vernacular preacher in the services that Rosa Millard organizes in the Episcopal Church in the absence of the regular minister; his title "Brother" is an unofficial religious one.

At his first appearance in the story, this Union officer angrily swears at Rosa for the trick she played on his unit, but then - after cursing his commanding officer for his stupidity as well - is able to laugh at Rosa's masquerade (88). At the end of the story he very politely confronts Rosa at Sartoris and recovers the mules she stole, and ironically writes a voucher to reimburse her for any damage to the estate.

These unnamed soldiers attempt to intercept Rosa Millard in her taking mules from Colonel Newberry's Union camp.

Denny Hawk is Bayard's cousin, who lives in Alabama at Hawkhurst, a plantation comparable to the Sartorises'. He is younger than Bayard, so when Bayard compares his grandmother's size to Denny's he is emphasizing how small she seems.

Mrs. Compson is the wife of General Compson (and so one of the grandmothers of Quentin, Caddy, Jason and Benjy in The Sound and the Fury). In this story she is only mentioned as the lady who loaned Rosa Millard the hat, the shawl and the parasol that she wears or carries.

Granny passes this unnamed sentry en route to her encounter with Colonel Newberry.

These two men help Ab Snopes as part of Granny Millard's campaign against the Union troops in Mississippi - which is to say, they help Ab take the mules Granny steals to Memphis, where they can be sold back to the Union Army.

Although only mentioned in this story, Colonel Dick appears twice - as a Yankee who nonetheless treats Rosa as a true gentleman - in two of the other Unvanquished stories: "Ambuscade" and "Raid."

Colonel G. W. Newberry is the Union colonel of the "--th Illinois Infantry" (77), and one of the several Yankee soldiers whom Rosa Millard tricks.

Louvinia and her husband Joby are the head of the family of 'house slaves' who serve the Sartorises loyally before, during and after the Civil War. She is only mentioned in this story, as part of the "us" that Rosa tells Bayard she is working for: "John and you and Ringo and Joby and Louvinia" (95).