Affair near Rienzi, MS. 1862

[5fish]

Affair near Rienzi, MS, involved the gr gr grandpa of the future noble prize winner William Faulkner... He was a colonel in the confederacy.

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[5fish]

Here are two bio on Col. William C. Faulkner... so the writer William Faulkner shares a first name with Col. Faulkner... they had different middle names.

Falkner Biography

A search in the files of the Ripley Public Library and the Tippah County Historical Society will reveal numerous contradictory facts and legends that even members of the late Colonel's family do not agree on. On the other hand, a great many facts, stories and anecdotes have been preserved and documented without any attendant doubts. If a history buff's curiosity prevails, the story of Falkner's trek to Mississippi wait in Donald Duclos' biography, SON OF SORROW, and in THE HISTORY OF TIPPAH COUNTY by Andrew Brown.
Falkner was born in Knox County, Tennessee, in 1825, as his parents were migrating from North Carolina to St. Genevieve, Missouri. After passing his early years with his family, Falkner came to Tippah County about 1842. Several reasons for his leaving the family shelter are recorded. J. W. Thompson adopted his nephew upon his arrival.

Here the second bio on the Col. Faulkner... people like to shot at him...

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/the-other-william-c-falkner/

The date was Tuesday, November 5th . . . the year was 1889 . . . federal and local elections were being held in twenty states throughout America. In addition to the elections in Virginia that day, the newly launched steamer “New York” was setting out on her trial run from Norfolk. Further south, after winning a seat in the Mississippi Legislature, Colonel William Clark Falkner was taking a casual evening stroll along Main Street in his hometown of Ripley. As he passed the law office of his former business associate, Richard J. “Dick” Thurmond, just opposite the Tippah County Courthouse, a shot was fired by Thurmond and Falkner collapsed in the street mortally wounded. By an odd quirk of fate, on May 8th, just forty years previously, a man with whom Falkner had served in the Mexican War, Robert Hindman, had also attempted to shoot Falkner at almost the exact same spot in Ripley. However, when Hindman’s pistol misfired, the intended victim drew out a large Bowie knife and stabbed his assailant to death. While there are various theories concerning the deadly altercation between the two former soldiers, the one most accepted is that both had been in love with the same girl, Holland Pearce, and when she married Falkner in 1848, Hindman sought revenge a few months later.

Eight years after Falkner’s tragic death, his great-grandson, William Cuthbert Falkner, would be born just twenty miles to the south in New Albany, Mississippi. The second William C. Falkner would later restore the original “u” to the family name and go on to become one of the South’s, and America’s, greatest authors . . . winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction and two National Book Awards. It has been reported that William Faulkner once said that he always wanted . . . “to be a writer like my great-granddaddy,” but even if the quote might be apocryphal, Faulkner, in one of his earliest novels in 1927, “Flags in the Dust,” created a fictional portrait of his great-grandfather in the person of Colonel John Sartoris, a cavalry officer from the mythical Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha who had served in the War Between the States. The initial work was severely edited, with over 40,000 words being deleted, and finally published two years later under the title “Sartoris.” In 1973, however, the original wording was restored, and the novel was republished under its initial title. The Colonel Sartoris character was later used by Faulkner in a series of stories that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and Scribner’s Magazine from 1934 to 1936, and then published as a novel in 1938 with the title of “The Unvanquished.”

 

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Here is the book written by Gr Gr Grandpa Col. William Faulkner... titled "White Rose of Memphis" its over 500 pages...

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He wrote more than one book and poetry...

William Clark Falkner (1825-1889)

Born on July 6, 1825 in Knox County, Tennessee, Falkner served in the Mexican War. When the Civil War began, Falkner raised a company of men and was made colon…

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Falkner was an author of poetry and novels. His most famous work was a novel, The White Rose of Memphis.

 

[5fish]

This Col. Faulkner gets better all the time, he a Forrest would have been a pair fighting and killing people... A guy wrote a book about Col. Faulkner's death... the man was a heel... and the writer William Faulkner is proud of this guy...

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In his second book, Allen Wildmon has taken incidents from the pages of Mississippi history and turned them into a gripping novel of passion, illicit sex, and murder. A statue of his main character Colonel William C. Falkner towers over all others in the Ripley, Mississippi cemetery. Wildmon, rendering Falkner's story in fictional terms, shows his readers why Falkner was a figure larger than life and why his flamboyant story is worth telling. Falkner great grandfather of Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner was a man who led a dangerous and adventurous life, defied law and convention, and in the end was gunned down by an old friend and former business partner. The first chapter introduces Falkner and Richard Thurmond, his friend-turned enemy. Then as Thurmond holds a cocked gun in Falkner's face -- Wildmon uses flashbacks to indicate how Falkner invited his own murder. Here are some of the incidents from which Wildmon has fashioned his gripping narrative: As a young man, Falkner promises a convicted murderer that he will hire a lawyer for the condemned man in exchange for the literary rights to his story. Falkner sells the story but reneges on his promise to hire the lawyer and pockets all the money. The man is hanged. During the Mexican War, after a barroom brawl over a Mexican woman, Falkner is shot in the left hand, losing three fingers. He later claims that he was wounded by Mexican soldiers and receives disability pay and an honorable discharge. Falkner's son by his second wife has an affair with a married woman and is killed by the husband. Falkner tells the man his son deserved shooting. Falkner has an affair with the daughter of a friend, a sixteen-year-old girl who becomes pregnant and has to marry another man. Falkner marries a woman much beloved by another man, who provokes a fight to the death. Falkner kills him with a knife and then fatally shoots a man who attempts to avenge his dead friend. During the Civil War, Falkner and a partner, Dick Thurmond, make a fortune buying and selling food and supplies behind enemy lines. Eventually their friendship will turn to hatred. Falkner cohabits with his black slave woman, with whom he has a child. During Reconstruction, Falkner and Thurmond are partners in building a railroad with a cash bonus promised by the state if a deadline is met. Falkner bribes the Mississippi Attorney General to approve the bonus when state regulations for the bonus aren't met. Falkner and Thurmond quarrel over the future of the railroad. These are just some of the incidents that comprise the life of this 19th-century figure whose real life is more extravagant than fiction. William Faulkner dealt with a few of these incidents in Sartoris and The Unvanquished, but even Faulkner, known for his preoccupation with the sordid and romantic past of Mississippi, doesn't tell the whole story. Allen Wildmon does in this short and exciting novel.

 

[5fish]

@diane this Col. Falkner likes fighting and killing a few souls like Forrest.

 

[diane]

Forrest is a running theme throughout William Faulkner's works, because he was a running theme throughout the South of Faulkner's time. To understand Faulkner's South (particularly Mississippi) he wrote of, it's a good idea to understand Forrest. The ggrandfather's novel is interestingly referenced by Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily".

Good thread here!

 

[5fish]

Here is a list that list Col. Falkner publish works... plus summarizing William Faulkner works influenced by Col. Falkner life... its a good link blending the two writers...

Old Colonel William Clark Falkner, Author from Ripley Mississippi

Biography of "Old Colonel" William Clark Falkner, great-grandfather of William Faulkner, from Knox, Tennessee and Ripley, Mississippi. Author of several books from 1845 to 1895.

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Much in The Unvanquished is also autobiographical in nature. Faulkner draws heavily on the stories he had grown up with. He uses stories about his great-grandfather, Colonel William Clark Falkner: his war service, his post-war business dealings, and his death. Like young Bayard’s great-grandfather John Sartoris, William Faulkner’s great-grandfather, Colonel William Clark Falkner, had fought in the Mexican War, had served in the Civil War, and commanded local troops because he had been voted out or declined rank. Both the fictional character and Faulkner’s great-grandfather had killed two men in a setting other than war and each had married two women (Bayard and Horace: The Two Faces of Faulkner).

 

[5fish]

Here a story with Forrest in the title... “My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek,

"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (Text Key 240) | The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

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Essentially, however, the story is a comedy about romance - and a sendup of stereotypical romantic fictions like the ones Melisandre reads to Bayard and Ringo.

Dating the Story: Over half the story takes place on a single day: 28 April 1862, according to General Forrest's official report (697). Unfortunately, that date cannot be reconciled with the rest of the text. For example, the story's first sentence says the ritual of burying the silver begins only after "the Yankees had taken Memphis," which did not happen until June, 1862 (667). And after the burying begins, at least "eight months" pass (669) - "all winter and all summer too" (671) - before the day of the battle at "Harrykin Creek" (697). There are many other discrepancies, including the suggestion that Philip has been in the Confederate army for "two years," even though the Confederacy did not exist in 1860 (680); or that "Father" - Colonel Sartoris - loses command of his original regiment and organizes "his cavalry troop" in 1861, even though in every other reference to these events in Faulkner's fiction, they happen in 1862 (667). Most of this could be resolved by pushing Forrest's 1862 date forward a year, but the text gives no reason to suspect that the General does not know what year it is. Our dating of the story's events takes 28 April 1862 as a definitive point of reference, and works backward and forward from that: the burying begins about eight months earlier, the marriage occurs four days later, and so on. Bayard is writing the story from at point at least 35 years later, after the Spanish-American War (1898).

Here another...

Monuments, Memory, and Faulkner’s Nathan Bedford Forrest

This chapter examines Faulkner's engagement with the legacy of a controversial historical figure, Nathan Bedford Forrest. It suggests that Forrest's presence permeates Faulkner's work more thoroughly than that of any other historical figure of the Civil War; the result, perhaps, of Falkner...

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This chapter examines Faulkner's engagement with the legacy of a controversial historical figure, Nathan Bedford Forrest. It suggests that Forrest's presence permeates Faulkner's work more thoroughly than that of any other historical figure of the Civil War; the result, perhaps, of Falkner family legends that linked Forrest with “the Old Colonel,” W. C. Falkner, in wartime north Mississippi. Forrest figures most explicitly in the Faulkner oeuvre in the 1943 story “My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek,” where he makes a cameo appearance to help the Sartoris family sort out a romantic complication