What Was The Role of David Herold

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Assuming that theatre in the Civil War shares some similarities with modern day theatre, Spangler could not have been moving around outside at any point during the show. Speaking from experience, backstage workers have no free time to roam about willy-nilly because they are constantly moving set pieces and setting up for the coming scenes. Even intermission offers no break for the crew. The fact that Dye tried to claim Spangler was one of the men is very interesting.

According to testimony by Jim Maddox, he agrees, on the one hand, that Spangler could not have been missing for very long from his duties but, on the other, admits that scene one of Act 3 is twenty-five minutes and that during long scenes the backstage crew may go missing for a bit for one reason or another.