Rethinking the social role of the militia: Community-building in Antebellum Kentucky From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: Laver, Harry S | Copyright Southern Historical Association Nov 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

IN REQUIEM FOR A NUN (1951) WILLIAM FAULKNER PERFORMS SOME literary backtracking when he introduces the earliest inhabitants of his fictional Jefferson, Mississippi, and explains the origin of the Yoknapatawpha County courthouse. His story, set in the 1830s, opens with the capture of a gang of ruffians:

[Al gang-three or four-of Natchez Trace bandits... [was] captured by chance by an incidental band of civilian more-or-less militia and brought in to the Jefferson jail because it was t...

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