The series was called 'Branded' and as you remember, started every week with the star - Chuck Connors - being stripped of his insignia, and watching an unmfortunate sabre / colonel's knee interface, while the stirring theme song wondered how anyone could cope with being ".... branded ... when you know you're a man!" in wonderfully butch voices. I think the officer was accused of desertion, which of course was not true. Chuck Connors went on to make 'The Rifleman', another long-running western series.