Band at the execution

[NHjohn]

(06-29-2014 04:08 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Sorry, but it's James G. Benton - Here he is:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi...d=59172747

Well what do you know? A NH fellah. Regular army. I'm sitting about 20 miles from where he was born. OK, now wonder what unit was stationed at the Arsenal? Every regular army regiment was authorized a brass band. The rules for volunteer troops did not apply and regular army units did not have to muster out their bands in 1862. Wonder if the Ordinance Department had a band? I know the "Quartermaster Corps" in DC had one, as did the Treasury Department.

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(06-29-2014 04:14 PM)NHjohn Wrote:  

(06-29-2014 04:08 PM)BettyO Wrote:  Sorry, but it's James G. Benton - Here he is:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi...d=59172747

Well what do you know? A NH fellah. Regular army. I'm sitting about 20 miles from where he was born. OK, now wonder what unit was stationed at the Arsenal? Every regular army regiment was authorized a brass band. The rules for volunteer troops did not apply and regular army units did not have to muster out their bands in 1862. Wonder if the Ordinance Department had a band? I know the "Quartermaster Corps" in DC had one, as did the Treasury Department.

Now, I see on the Joint Base/Ft. Myer/Ft. McNair website etc., it says there was a hospital "attached to the penitentiary," that "treated Civil war wounded during the war," so we're still back to the same position but at least we have the right guy commanding and he's regular army, not VRC, but VRC soldiers would still be manning the hospital if it was any size and required orderlies, nurses, guards, cooks, maintenance, etc. Otherwise, we didn't know the commander was regular army, and should have been there in-charge of regular army soldiers, either artillery or ordinance training soldiers.