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Charles T. Clay

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Oklahoma
Support
Anti-War Conscientious Objection
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Biography

Charles T. Clay was a conscientious objector from Oklahoma imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: sent to Camp Travis; named on Judge Advocate General's card file entitled CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR: "An allegation that the accused did 'acting together, each with the other, jointly and severally disobey an order, imports that such action was taken 'in pursuance of a common …

Case

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
Charges: Disobeying orders; refusal of military service (World War I court-martial of a conscientious objector)
Released: Jan 27, 1919
Sentence: Held at Fort Leavenworth. Released 1919 (Jan. 27?).
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas