The Unvanquished

Another of Faulkner’s novels set in his fictitious Yoknapatawpha County in Mississpppi. The story concerns two boys living on a southern plantation during the civil war. One of the boys, Bayard Sartoris, is the plantation owner’s son the other is a slave, though they are good friends, having grown up together. During the course of the war the boys, Bayard’s father, a Confederate officer and Granny become involved in various encounters with Union troops but all survive, at least until war’s end.