Biography
Jacob Miller 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 20 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 Casual Detachment, Headquarters Provisions Depot for Corps and Army Troops, Camp Wadsworth (South Carolina), Aug. 27, 1918 (may not have been his first assignment); interviewed by Bd. on Jan. 5, 1919 at Disciplinary Barracks ; …
The Revolutionary Age of August 9, 1919 prints a letter received by the National Left Wing Conference on June 21, 1919 from political prisoners confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. It lists Jacob Miller among Socialist Party members, endorsing the letter's support for the Left Wing and its political aims. June 21 is the conference's receipt date, not an admission or release date; no individual charge or measured custody total is supplied.
