Confederate Monument Trivia Question

When I first saw the Pittsboro County, VA confederate monument I thought he was facing south.  That surprised me because it would be a big no, no -- as people obsessed with these things will tell you.  I now think he's facing more west than south.  But whatever.  All of this reminds me that I want to ask a two-part trivia question related to a Confederate monument in twentieth century fiction.  First, where is the following passage from?  Sure you can google this, but I think it'll be pretty obvious at the least the author, even if not the book.

Second -- and more importantly: what the heck is this about the UDC members who storm out of Gone with the Wind?  I mean, is it possible that back in the 1930s it was too enlightened on issues of race for some people?  The answer may surprise you.

[E]pilogue and epitaph, because apparently neither the U.D.C. ladies who instigated and bought the monument, nor the architect who designed it nor the masons who erected it had noticed that the marble eyes under the shading marble palm stared not toward the north and the enemy, but toward the south, toward (if anything) his own rear -- looking perhaps, the wits said (could say now, with the old war thirty-five years past and you could even joke about it -- except the women, the ladies, the unsurrendered, the irreconcilable, who even after another thirty-five years would still get up and stalk out of picture houses showing Gone with the Wind), for reinforcements; or perhaps not a combat soldier at all, but a provost marshal's man looking for deserters, or perhaps himself for a safe place to run to: because that old war was dead; the sons of those tottering old men in gray had already died in blue coats in Cuba, the macabre mementos and testimonials and shrines of the new war already usurping the earth ....

Comments

[Brian Clarke]

Fairly confident it is William Faulkner based on the prose, no clue from what.

[Brian Clarke]

And purely a guess as to the second part, there were certainly many in the 1900s and, still today, for whom the idea that "The South," the Confederacy, and the "ideals" [which in their minds did not include slavery explicitly] for which the South fought are far from "Gone with the Win." The idea that a southerner penned a book (turned into a film) suggesting that Southern whites would simply get up, work hard and "surrender" to the victors was, I would imagine, distasteful if not downright offensive to these folks.

[Alfred L. Brophy]

Yes, Brian! Right -- and it's from Requiem for a Nun. Now, as to the GWTW part. Apparently some women found the mention of Sherman too much and walked out (or talked about walking out).

[James Taylor]

My father was doing some genealogy along about 1980 and discovered a connection to one Taylor Sherman. When he told his aunt, she huffed, "You can claim kin to General Sherman if you want to. I'd rather be a bastard!"

We have a picture of one of my many-greats uncles in his uniform as regimental surgeon of the 7th Alabama Infantry. My female grandchildren are all eligible to join both the DAR and the UDC. Guess which they choose.