Military Executions

[NHjohn]

Clearly demarking that the end of the thing has occurred makes sense to me. Thanks for the details given surrounding the whole event.

And the purpose of me asking about a brass band at THE executions was, when a lowly private was executed for desertion, or citizen hung for murdering a soldier, there are countless documented instances of a regimental brass band involved in a ceremony, on the battlefield. I find it difficult to believe that THE execution of the war was not attended by one or more regimental brass bands, when the venue was in Washington, D.C., covered by newspaper reports, photographers, a thousand soldiers and spectators.