...til midnight, when a number of officers assembled in line. First came the largest negro in camp as drum major; then Capt. Jack Adams as marshal, master of ceremonies and comb-band. Behind him was Quartermaster Winthrop , with reversed carbine, as firing party. Directly behind him were four negroes, two large and two small, bearing between them two sticks upon which rested a cracker box,—the casket of the dec...