World War I Courts-Martial (U.S.)

Dates of creation: 1914-1918; microfilmed in 1975

3 35mm microfilm reels

The following research project consists of 98 case files (CFs) containing the transcripts of court-martials involving 131 conscientious objectors court-martialed during W.W. I. The records are of the office of the Judge Advocate General (Army), record group 153, and a part of the National Archives of the United States. They were compiled during the summer of 1975 by Duane Goertz assisted by Carl Edwards.

The CFs themselves are arranged alphabetically within two sections as shown in the table of contents. The first and largest section contains the names, religious denominations and CF numbers of 96 persons court-martialed individually. The second section lists the names, religious denominations and CF numbers of those persons court-martialed collectively; 31 in CF 116001 and 4 in CF 116306.

With few exceptions these 131 religious conscientious objectors represent various branches of the Mennonite church. The abbreviations used in the table of contents to denote these various denominations are listed below.

Custodial History: The microfilms were purchased from the Mennonite Library and Archives, North Newton, Kansas.

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