As with most of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha characters, readers can find these characters' origins in Sartoris (1929), later published posthumously as Flags in the Dust. More even than The Sound and the Fury (1929), Sartoris is a break-through book for Faulkner, since, in his imagination, he discovers a mythic place and group of characters that engaged his whole life. Faulkner had a habit of reusing characters and reworking them. All of the stories in The Unvanquished were previously published as short stories except "An Odor of Verbena"— five in The Saturday Evening Post, a popular magazine, and "Skirmish at Sartoris" in the more literary Scribner's Magazine. As is typical of Faulkner, he deepened the works, particularly the first two stories in The Saturday Evening Post. Instead of a series of works that might well have been a series of comic adventures for Ringo and Bayard with a Civil War backdrop...