SOURCE: "'Sabers, Gentlemen, Sabers': The J. E. B. Stuart Stories of Barry Hannah," in The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. XLV, No. 1, Winter, 1991–92, pp. 41-52.
In the excerpt below, Seib focuses on several of the stories in Airships and analyzes Hannah's mythic treatment of J. E. B. Stuart, a prominent general in the Confederate army during the American Civil War.
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