Holmes called the
roll this morning and we hear no more about being shot for mutiny. It may
possibly come later, but from all I can see and hear the trouble was entirely a
company affair and did not reach beyond it. If Colonel Smith, who is said to be
very strict on discipline, had taken a hand in it, we might have fared worse,
but I doubt if he would allow such a cowardly trick to be played on so good a
soldier as Holmes is, and has been, to say nothing of jumping a corporal over
the heads of five sergeants, who have all been prompt and faithful in the
discharge of their duties. Our first real sick man was sent to the hospital
to-night, one of Company B, from Dover.
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 43
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