![]() Wolff: A good number of your characters drown, or you describe their deaths in drowning terms. Jackson was called Chimneyville because all that was left standing were the chimneys. We were on the way between east and west, and Sherman burned every time he came through. I've seen photographs that were made of Jackson. ![]() It was common for the soldiers to go through the house and take things, and burn down the houses, even the schoolhouse. In Natchez, in one of the old homes, they say you can see a long mark on the cabinet in the hall where the spurs from the soldier's boot scratched the wood as he rode into the house. In her story, Welty initially focuses on hearth and furnishings, stressing thereby the intrusion, disruption, and calamity, as well as the lasting scars of soldierly conflict, on domestic order and setting. Her spoken response, similar to her literary one, draws on a deep sense of Southern heritage, folklore, and history. (1) I was inquiring about an incident at the beginning of her story "The Burning" in which a mounted Union soldier rides his horse into the foyer of a plantation house. " Eudora Welty replied, as we talked about events that took place in Mississippi during the Civil War. ![]()
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