hurried to the ground, and the surgeon of the regiment, Dr. Cavenaugh, came to the assistance of his brother officer, and got a pair of damaged eyes for his interference.  The drunken company, who were really the proper subjects for punishment, now sided with Whalen, and loaded their guns with the avowed intention of shooting all the officers if they again attempted to take him.  In the melee that followed, one of the officers shot Whalen, but the ball glanced from his forehead, leaving only a red line on the skin, and he was soon on his feet.  He used no weapon but his fist; but he knocked the officers down as fast as they approached.  Reinforcements now arrived for the officers.  Colonel Walker, seeing that a general mutiny was imminent, ordered out two batteries of light artillery and two companies of infantry.  The guns were placed so as to sweep the camp of the mutineers, and they were summoned to surrender.  They had intrenched themselves behind a large mass of rock, whence it would have been difficult to dislodge them without serious loss of life.  After some deliberation, they agreed to surrender if they were allowed to retain their arms and return to duty.  This proposition was of course rejected, and the guns were double-shotted with grape, and a second summons to surrender sent to them.  This time they obeyed and threw down their arms, which were secured, and they were soon strongly guarded.  I was detailed the same evening, with a number of others, to guard these mutineers.  During the night a fight occurred between one of the mutineers and a prisoner in the guard-house.  I interfered between them, and was handsomely whipped by both of them.  This was too much for any one to stand, and seizing a gun from a sentinel I pinned one of them to the wall of the guard-house with the bayonet, and the other was bound by the guard.  I now released the man I had pinned to the wall, and was glad to find that he was only slightly wounded in the side.  He was also ironed and confined in the black-hole.

Fourteen of these mutineers were tried in a few days by a general court-martial.  Whalen was sentenced to death.  Four of the others were sentenced to wear a ball and chain for a month, and lose six months’ pay.  Three of these being non-commissioned officers were publicly degraded, and put into the ranks.  The remainder were sentenced to wear a ball and chain for a month, and lose three months’ pay.  Whalen’s sentence was to have been carried out a month from the time he was tried; but as there was a strong feeling of indignation in the regiment about the severity of his sentence, a recommendation for pardon was presented to General Pillow, and Whalen was reprieved and sent to Memphis.  He was at last pardoned, and transferred into a regiment which went to Virginia.  This was done that he might not return to the regiment again and encourage others to mutiny, holding out his own example of pardon as a safeguard against punishment.