Charles F. Schilling

Charles F. Schilling was a conscientious objector from Ohio 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 1. (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 Department, Base Hospital, Camp Serman, Chillicothe (Ohio), Oct. 28, 1918 (may not have been his first assignment); interviewed by Bd. at Camp Sherman; classed by Bd. as 1A; charged with disobedience of orders; …