E.I. Brandt

E.I. Brandt was a conscientious objector from Washington imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. 3 years]. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: one of men who refused to give information for survey (“they are ‘children of God, saved by his grace’ and they will not be polluted by association with ‘children of the devil’; their sentences were cut to 1-3 years]; imprisoned in June 1918