Jefferson's Confederate monument, as it's most often called, is a generic Southern soldier atop a tall pedestal in front of the courthouse in the Square at the center of town. It appears in 7 fictions. According to Requiem for a Nun, it was "instigated" and paid for by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (a real Southern organization) and officially unveiled on "Confederate Decoration Day" in 1900 (189). Requiem provides the most details about the statue.
Jefferson's Confederate monument, as it's most often called, is a generic Southern soldier atop a tall pedestal in front of the courthouse in the Square at the center of town. It appears in 7 fictions. According to Requiem for a Nun, it was "instigated" and paid for by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (a real Southern organization) and officially unveiled on "Confederate Decoration Day" in 1900 (189). This novel refers very briefly to that day "when they unveiled the Confederate monument" (118).
Jefferson's Confederate monument, as it's most often called, is a generic Southern soldier atop a tall pedestal in front of the courthouse in the Square at the center of town. It appears in 7 fictions. According to Requiem for a Nun, it was "instigated" and paid for by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (a real Southern organization) and officially unveiled on "Confederate Decoration Day" in 1900 (189). Requiem provides the most details about the statue.
Jefferson's Confederate monument, as it's most often called, is a generic Southern soldier atop a tall pedestal in front of the courthouse in the Square at the center of town. It appears in 8 fictions. According to Requiem for a Nun, it was "instigated" and paid for by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (a real Southern organization) and officially unveiled on "Confederate Decoration Day" in 1900 (189). Requiem provides the most details about the statue.
Jefferson's Confederate monument, as it's most often called, is a generic Southern soldier atop a tall pedestal in front of the courthouse in the Square at the center of town. It appears in 8 fictions. According to Requiem for a Nun, it was "instigated" and paid for by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (a real Southern organization) and officially unveiled on "Confederate Decoration Day" in 1900 (189). Requiem provides the most details about the statue.
The Confederate monument at the center of the Courthouse Square is the scene of the novel's last event, which is both deeply moving and deeply ironic. According to Requiem for a Nun, which provides the most details about the statue and its history, is was erected in 1900. The narrator of the novel's last section describes it as a "Confederate soldier [who] gazes with empty eyes beneath his marble hand in wind and weather" (319), and in Benjy's mind it one has to drive around the Square by going to its right.
Jefferson's Confederate monument, as it's most often called, is a generic Southern soldier atop a tall pedestal in the Square at the center of town. It appears in 8 fictions. According to Requiem for a Nun, it was "instigated" and paid for by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (a real Southern organization) and officially unveiled on "Confederate Decoration Day" in 1900 (189). Requiem provides the most details about the statue.
In the middle of his story about events in Yoknapatawpha in 1862 Bayard looks ahead over thirty-five years to describe a conversation that takes place in Virginia, in "the office of the Richmond editor" of a Southern periodical (673). He is making that point that, while some Confederates still refused to surrender, by the Spanish-American War US troops from both 'the North' and 'the South' could fight in Cuba side-by-side under a common flag.
This cabin is the site of an interesting if short-lived social experiment. After their father dies, Buck and Buddy McCaslin build this "two-room log house" near the "big colonial house" (46-47) that their father had built. They move their slaves into "the manor house" and live "with about a dozen dogs" in this cabin (47). In his account of this, Bayard quotes his father as saying Buck and Buddy "were ahead of their time" (48).
Beasley Kemp is a farmer who lives somewhere in the neighborhood of Anse Holland's property. Ab trades Kemp for a horse, and in his account of the episode V.K. Suratt says even Ab's exasperated wife had to admit it was the sign of a good trade that the animal "could get up and walk from Beasley Kemp's lot to theirn by itself" (34).
