Elias Clayton

Elias Clayton was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 15 years in prison. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: African-American; sentenced to 15 years in prison; imprisoned at Ft. Leavenworth on November 7, 1918; named on Judge Advocate General's file card entitled CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR: "A conscientious objector is under the same duty as any other drafted man to obey the orders of his …