Biography
Charles P. Larsen was a conscientious objector from Illinois imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 5 years in prison, reduced to 1. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: Mininger lists his denomination as “Humanitarian”; registered on June 5, 1917, as a C.O.; interviewed by Bd. on June 15, 1918 at Leavenworth; charge = disobedience of orders; sentenced to 5 years in prison, reduced to 1.5 years; implicated in mutiny at Ft. …
Confirmed Camp Funston guardhouse transfer
The signed report on treatment of conscientious objectors identifies Charles P. Larsen among those received at the Camp Funston Military Police Guard House on September 5, 1918. This is a confirmed facility receipt, not an independently established new arrest or beginning of all imprisonment. The September 5 and September 27 groups explicitly came from the Fort Riley guardhouse. The September 26 and 27 entries individually describe assaults on Larsen. His name appears as Charles P. Larsen among the signatories. The report covers events through October 21 but does not supply an individual discharge date. Existing original-admission, release, sentence and total-duration fields are not replaced by this receipt date or calculated from a military sentence.
