Biography
Hobart Crandall was a conscientious objector from Indiana imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, reduced to 1 year. (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 Detachment, 13th Battalion, Field Artillery Replacement Depot, Headquarters Camp Zachary Taylor (Louisville, Kentucky) on Oct. 25, 1918 (may not have been his first assignment); interviewed by Bd. on Feb. …
Case
United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
