Band at the execution

[Linda Anderson]

(06-27-2014 01:43 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  This might(?) have come up once before, but I have forgotten the answer. Outside (according to Twenty Days) there was a party-like atmosphere with the crowd "regaling itself with lemonade and cakes."

I have never seen a primary source for this, and at least one other book I own that says this uses Twenty Days as the source. Is there an actual primary source for this?

It's from the 7/7/1865 Evening Union.

"Outside the prison cake and lemonade vendors were around as though they were attending a holiday."