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    RETURN FIRE

    May 21, 2019 4 minutes

    PRISONS AND MAGIC LANTERNS

    CONGRATULATIONS on another fine issue of Civil War Times! I am particularly impressed by Dana B. Shoaf’s piece on artist James E. Taylor’s prison paintings, and the part about Union veteran Ezra Ripple projecting them as “magic lantern plates” is a gem I have never known about! Keep it up!

    Steve Davis, Atlanta, Ga.

    I WAS MOST HAPPILY surprised to find Melissa A. Winn’s fine article on the magic lantern (“Traveling Storytellers”) in the June 2019 issue of . She has brought to light a highly significant yet almost completely forgotten and overlooked form of popular entertainment in the years immediately following the Civil War. Multitudes of veterans traveled from town to town with cases of

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