Yoknapatawphy County

Fictitious county in Mississippi and setting of the novel.

Vicksburg

Town in Mississippi which fell to the Union Army and began the siege of Mississippi.

Jefferson

Town in Mississippi, just outside of which is the Sartoris property.

Hawkhurst

Town in which Aunt Louisa and Drusilla live.

Granny's Receipt Book

A record kept by Rosa Milliard of all that she had given and to whom and for what purpose.

Oxford

Town in Mississippi to which Bayard has gone to study law.

Ku Klux Klan

Group of men organized by John Sartoris to keep carpet baggers from organizing the Negroes into insurrection.

Verbena

A plant with a strong scent.

Pokerry

A berry, the juice of which was used in place of ink, because in was an expensive and rare commodity during the War.

Carpet Bagger

A Northerner who, after the War, moved to the South to take over...