Band at the execution

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I did find reference to a hospital next to the old penitentiary on the Arsenal grounds. It was built in 1857. It appears that some of the women injured in the Arsenal explosion in June of 1864 were taken there. Now, if we could just find reference to a band being attached there.

NHJohn - I found one confusing description of a Pennsylvania unit called the Ringgolds Artillery that were among the first defenders in 1861. If I read it right, they were first housed in the Capitol and then sent to barracks created in the penitentiary on the Arsenal grounds. There seems to have been a band later attached to them, but the entire unit appears to have been the 30-day wonders?

I am now officially brain dead on this subject.