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Raymond A. Northrup

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:New York
Support
Anti-War Conscientious Objection
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Biography

Raymond A. Northrup 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. (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 Company A, 1st Casual Battalion, Conscientious Objectors, Fort Riley, Headquarters Camp Funston (Kansas), Nov. 26, 1918 (may not have been his first assignment); interviewed by Bd. …

Case

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
Charges: Disobeying orders; refusal of military service (World War I court-martial of a conscientious objector)
Incarcerated: 1918
Released: 1919
Sentence: Sentenced to 25 years in prison. Held at Fort Leavenworth. Released 1919.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas