Band at the execution

[Linda Anderson]

Roger, I think that DeWitt would have mentioned being there, too. I don't know if his papers at the University of NC would be of any help.

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/d/Dewitt...iller.html

Laurie, it's interesting that DeWitt mentions the drums and trumpet only after the execution is over, like he's emphasizing that the government was overjoyed the conspirators were dead.

This is the same scene from The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt.

"Among the tolling of the bells, sending a shudder through the silent population of the city, and heralded by the tramp of armed men, the death-march of the doomed woman and the doomed men begins. The still breathing men and the still breathing woman are clothed already in their shrouds."

After the executions, "the soldiers depart with flourish of trumpet and beat of drum."

Were the bells tolling in the city when the conspirators were marching out to the scaffold?