Biography
George Samuel Miller was a Mennonite conscientious objector who was inducted at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on July 23, 1918. Non-commissioned officers in his company treated him harshly — in August 1918 a corporal broke his nose for refusing to do kitchen work. He was court-martialed on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, and sentenced to fifteen years; on Christmas Eve he was sent to the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he spent time in solitary confinement for refusing to work. He was discharged on May 1, 1919. He later lived in Wellman, Iowa, and recounted his experience in a taped interview with Roger Golden on December 18, 1968, preserved in the Mennonite Central Committee's Civilian Public Service oral-history archive.
Case
United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
