In "Appendix Compson" Charles Stuart Compson vanishes "from one of Tarleton's regiments on a Georgia battlefield" in 1778, during the American Revolutionary War (326). It's not clear what battlefield Faulkner has in mind; there was fighting in Georgia during Revolutionary War, but Tarleton not involved in any of it.
In the story "Retreat" and again in The Unvanquished Granny Millard and her party spend four days traveling across northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee toward Memphis. This journey - the nights spent sleeping in the wagon in the woods along the road, the meals taken in houses they pass - are mainly summarized, and the most memorable detail of the landscape is the one burned house they see. But the location also includes the crossroads where, on the fourth day of their trip, they are attacked by a band of marauders while passing a deserted house with a stable behind it.
This is where V.K. Ratliff meets with Flem Snopes to negotiate the purchase of the Old Frenchman's place in The Hamlet. To keep that conversation a secret, Ratliff takes a roundabout way to get here: from the Bend he drives up the road that "turns off to McCaslin's farm," three miles along a "winding and little-used lane," and a mile toward Jefferson on the "highroad" to a spot two miles from the hamlet (390).
When the Sheriff's car is "within three or four miles of town," they begin seeing "wagons and cars" heading in the opposite direction, "going home from market day" (163). The "inescapable dust" being thrown up by the wagons indicates that the county's main roads, even this close to the "countyseat," are unpaved (163, 162). It is along this stretch that Cotton tries to commit suicide in "The Hound."
The narrator of "Fool about a Horse" and his Pap are on the road to Jefferson, "about a half mile from Varner's store," when the horse Pap just acquired in the swap with Kemp "pops into a sweat" and breaks into a run (122).
In "Ambuscade" and again in The Unvanquished Bayard and Ringo follow Loosh as far as the road and hear the mule he's riding going away to "where Corinth" is (22). The road is the one that runs north and south through the middle of Yoknapatawpha. To get to Corinth, Loosh goes north. Corinth is about sixty miles away from Sartoris; Loosh has already given the boys reason to think that there are Yankee troops in that direction.
"A Justice" does not describe the place in the river bottom where Herman Basket and Crawford "overtake" and kill the three white men and talk with the ten unnamed slaves before returning with them to the wrecked steamboat; it is far enough from the sand bar to hide the murder and close enough to the river to allow the Indians to hide the bodies.
In The Unvanquished, at this spot beside the "old road along the river bottom" where a house once stood, Bayard and Ringo come upon an "old Negro man" whom Grumby's gang has lynched and left as a warning to the boys (177).
At the start of World War II the U.S. government created internment camps to which the Japanese-Americans living on the west coast were removed as a possible threat to the war effort against Japan. Requiem for a Nun refers to "a California detention camp for enemy aliens" (194), though almost two-thirds of the 110,000-120,000 people interned were American citizens, and though it's not clear that any were "enemies." Two of the ten camps on the U.S.
In Requiem for a Nun the "ghettoes" of Los Angeles are one of the places (along with those of "New York and Detroit and Chicago") to which the Negro tenant farmers and "furnish-hands" who worked in Yoknapatawpha's fields have moved by the 1930s (193). Nearby "Hollywood," where Faulkner often worked as a screenwriter, has its own entry in this index.
