Biography
Charles F. Schilling was a conscientious objector from Ohio imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 25 years in prison, reduced to one and a half years. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: registered for draft on June 5, 1917, as a C.O.; assigned to Medical Department, Base Hospital, Camp Serman, Chillicothe (Ohio), Oct. 28, 1918 (may not have been his first assignment); interviewed by Bd. at Camp Sherman; classed by Bd. as 1A; charged with disobedience of orders; …
The Charles F. Schilling Jr. entry gives the imposed term as twenty-five years reduced to 1.5 years, rather than one year. It also reports sentence remission on August 20, 1919. The corrected eighteen-month figure is an imposed term; no eighteen-month service or physical release date is inferred.
Anne M. Yoder, World War I Conscientious Objector Database, Charles F. Schilling entry (retained CSV row 1785).
Anne M. Yoder’s compiled Charles F. Schilling Jr. entry explicitly dates his imprisonment to October 31, 1918. This refines the recorded prison-entry year. The same entry’s August 20, 1919 sentence-remission date is not treated as a physical discharge, and the imposed term is not a completed custody total.
World War I Conscientious Objector Database, Charles F. Schilling Jr. entry, retained CSV row 1785.
