What Happened to Sergeant William Walker of the Third South

question 29

Multiple Choice

What happened to Sergeant William Walker of the Third South Carolina Regiment after he led his men to stack their arms by their captain's tent and declare themselves released from duty because the army would not grant them equal pay?

• A)He received a personal audience from President Lincoln,who agreed that the treatment of black soldiers was unjust.
• B)He was stripped to the waist and whipped two hundred times for mutiny.
• C)He was executed by firing squad.
• D)He was dismissed from the service and sentenced to forty years in prison.

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