Biography
Joseph Anderson was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 25 years in prison, reduced to 2 years. (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.; interviewed by Bd. of Inquiry in July 1918 at Leavenworth; class = 1A; charged with disobedience of orders; sentenced to 25 years in prison, reduced to 2 years; imprisoned on Dec. 3, 1918; sentence remitted on Aug. …
Case
United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
