Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Sat, 2013-07-13 02:00
The barn at the Sartoris plantation becomes the scene of the tense moment when Colonel Sartoris escapes from the Yankee patrol that has come to take him prisoner. The event is first narrated by Will Falls in Flags in the Dust. It is considerably more exciting when the Colonel's son retells it in "Retreat." According to Will, the Colonel walks "across that lot" and gets around "the corner of the barn" just before the Yankee shoots (23).
Submitted by padgettjb@breva... on Sat, 2013-07-13 01:59
This is the "living map" where in "Ambuscade" and The Unvanquished Bayard and Ringo re-create the fighting at Vicksburg, Mississippi. It is located "behind the smokehouse" of the Sartoris plantation and is constructed of "just a handful of chips from the woodpile"; the "Mississippi River" has been "scraped into the packed earth with the point of a hoe" and filled with water fetched from the well (3, 3). As the last remaining Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River the actual Vicksburg was the scene of almost a dozen battles between the end of 1862 and July 1863.
