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Execution of deserters in Confederate Army

In the Confederate army, was it more customary for a regiment or a brigade to witness the execution by firing squad of a deserter? (My ancestor was a member of the NC 53rd Inf, Co G; executed in Jan. 1864 while in winter quarters near Orange Courthouse, VA.

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