Biography
Emanuel Silver was a conscientious objector from New York imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth; Fort Douglas. Sentenced to 25 years in prison - reduced to 2. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: registered on June 5, 1917, as a C.O.; reason for being a C.O. = humanitarian; interviewed by Bd. in July ___ at Riley and in July ___ at Leavenworth; charged with Disobedience of Orders; sentenced to 25 years in prison - reduced to 2.5 years; imprisoned at Ft. Leavenworth & Ft. …
Confirmed Camp Funston guardhouse transfer
The signed report on treatment of conscientious objectors identifies Emanuel Silver among those received at the Camp Funston Military Police Guard House on September 27, 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. Silver is named in the October 7 hunger-strike entry and October 8 assault account; the October 15 entry describes his removal to solitary confinement. This establishes earlier guardhouse confinement than the currently stored November 2 prison-segment entry, without establishing the original admission day. 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.
