Biography
Ezra E. Barnhart was a World War I conscientious objector who refused military service and was court-martialed and confined at the Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks in Kansas. When the U.S. Army's Board of Inquiry examined him at Fort Leavenworth on January 4–5, 1919, it concluded that he was a sincere conscientious objector who would have qualified for a furlough.
Ezra Earl Barnhart was a Church of the Brethren conscientious objector from Kansas imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 25 years in prison. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: sent to Camp Funston (Ft. Riley); spent 2 months in guard house; got the flu & sent to hospital; sent back to solitary confinement at guard house; court-martialed & sentenced to 25 years in prison; imprisoned at Ft. Leavenworth on Nov. 25 (or as late as Dec. 3); still sick; …
