While Jason chases his money and his niece down the road to Mottson, "from time to time he passed churches" that are described as "unpainted frame buildings with sheet iron steeples, surrounded by tethered teams and shabby motor cars" (306).
While Jason chases his money and his niece down the road to Mottson in The Sound and the Fury, "from time to time he passed churches" that are described as "unpainted frame buildings with sheet iron steeples, surrounded by tethered teams and shabby motor cars" (306).
During the reign of terror that Grumby's gang inflicts upon Yoknapatawpha, the group that Bayard refers to as "the Negroes who had lost their white people" - that is, former slaves whose place on the county's plantations has disappeared during the Civil War - "live hidden in caves back in the hills like animals" (93). There are hills both east and west of Jefferson but this is the only reference to these "caves" in the fictions, so we have had to guess where in the county Faulkner imagines them.
During the reign of terror that Grumby's gang inflicts upon Yoknapatawpha, the group that Bayard refers to as "the Negroes who had lost their white people" - that is, former slaves whose place on the county's plantations has disappeared during the Civil War - "live hidden in caves back in the hills like animals" (93). There are hills both east and west of Jefferson but this is the only reference to these "caves" in the fictions, so we have had to guess where in the county Faulkner imagines them.
In both "The Unvanquished" and The Unvanquished Bayard adds a new and perhaps surprising episode to the history of Yoknapatawpha. During the reign of terror that Grumby's gang inflicts upon Yoknapatawpha in the chaos near the end of the Civil War, the group that Bayard refers to as "the Negroes who had lost their white people" - that is, former slaves whose place on the county's plantations has disappeared during the war - "live hidden in caves back in the hills like animals" (93).
Texas is mentioned in the novel when Moseley finds out that Dewey Dell is pregnant; refusing to help her abort the fetus, he tells her to marry the man who impregnated her - "if he aint halfway to Texas by now, which I dont doubt" (202). 'Texas' is defined this way in about a dozen of the Yoknapatawpha fictions: as the place men run away to when they've done something shameful or criminal.
Emily has "two female cousins" who live somewhere in Alabama (127); the story doesn't go to them, they come to visit Emily instead, which is why we can't say where in Alabama they live.
Just outside Jefferson the wagon carrying Granny, Bayard and Ringo passes by a troop of Confederate soldiers from Arkansas. At least, that is the most likely reason one of them yells "Hooraw for Arkansas!" (20).
More than half of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fictions include scenes in or references to Tennessee - particularly Memphis. A much smaller number mention or include scenes set in Tennessee during the Civil War. In The Unvanquished the irregular troop led by Colonel John Sartoris is described both hiding from and capturing Yankee soldiers, though these fictional events are non-violent.
According to Bayard, when he and Ringo eavesdrop on his father's conversation about the fighting he's been doing, they hear "the names - Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain" (5). There were major Civil War battles at these locations, the first in Georgia and the second in Tennessee, but they were fought in September and November 1863, respectively, at least two months after the events of the story (152). When Faulkner revised "Ambuscade" for publication in The Unvanquished, he removed this pair of references.
