Military Executions

[NHjohn]

(06-23-2014 05:15 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I wish that either John Elliott or Barry Cauchon would read this exchange. In all the research that they have conducted over the years on the trial et al, they might have come up with something regarding a band and/or drummers.

And that's why I turned to you folks. I just found that Hartranft wrote to the commander of the 10th Veteran Reserve Corps about a man in that unit being present at the prison. That unit would make sense as one assigned. They were stationed in DC in 1864-65, made up of wounded veterans whose purpose was guard duty at Federal installations. Both the 9th & 10th VRC had great brass bands and there are a few images of these bands taken in DC.