All the rebel Sepoys and troopers who were captured, were collectively tried by a drumhead court-martial, and hanged.
"I wonder that you were not shot without any drumhead court-martial," said the Colonel.
Well give him a drumhead court-martial, but it will be the quickest ever held on earth.
The drumhead court-martial which followed was brief and formal.
A drumhead court-martial sentenced the young Virginian to receive one hundred lashes on the bare back.
The next day Gen. Ward organized a drumhead court-martial and tried those captured who were not wounded.
In the back of his head there formed a little picture—a drumhead court-martial, a provost guard, a tree and a rope.
We then took six of the leaders, and, holding a drumhead court-martial, sentenced them to be hanged.
But for British magnanimity a drumhead court-martial should have taken the place of the hospitality of the Ceylon planters.
Summary procedure made it easy to decide that the sentence of drumhead court-martial was death.
