Albert Duane Swift

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Arkansas
Time Imprisoned:
3 Years 0 Days
Support
Anti-War Conscientious Objection
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Biography

Albert Duane Swift was a conscientious objector from Arkansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 20 years in prison. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: registered on June 5, 1917 as a CO; objected to war on religious grounds; would have taken noncom. if he could have chosen which branch; put in guardhouse at Camp Pike; put in heavy iron shackles etc. “They will never know where I get my strength, but it comes, and that freely. …

Case

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
Charges: Disobeying orders; refusal of military service (World War I court-martial of a conscientious objector)
Incarcerated: 1917
Released: 1920
Sentence: Sentenced to 20 years in prison. Held at Fort Leavenworth.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas

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