Military Executions

[BettyO]

In his letterbook, General Hartranft records just about everything which went on within the prison; what the Conspirators ate, when their laundry was done; even what their laundry consisted of. He's very specific. There is no mention of any regimental band or otherwise attached to the Arsenal or troops stationed there. However one survivor who died in the early half of the 20th Century recounted that he was a drummer and played with 10 other boys as part of a group of drummers who played a slow cadence as the Conspirators marched the short distance to the scaffold.