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Note: Page numbers in italics indicate figures; page numbers followed by “t” indicate tables.

abolitionism 22, 42, 71, 82
absolutists 126, 128, 135, 137–39, 165, 302
Acheson, Dean 237
Acton, Thomas 40
administrative agency 101–3, 170, 225, 235
African American men . see Black men
Agnew, Daniel 57
Aiken, George 234
Alabama 20, 85
armed resistance in 84, 87
conscript department in 74
racial composition of draft boards in 282
Supreme Court of 70, 89, 90, 93, 152
Alito, Samuel 338
Allsup, Citti 327
alternative civilian service 165, 188–89, 233, 241–42
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 181–82
during Cold War 332–33
controversies regarding 191–201
COs and 164, 167, 168, 181–91, 241–42, 244, 245t, 246–48, 257–58, 260, 332–33
at nonprofit organizations 246–47
during World War II 180, 181–91, 227–28
ambulance service 196
American Baptist Home Missionary Society 188
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 142, 156–57, 165, 174, 175, 191, 200, 205, 222, 291, 305 . National Civil Liberties Bureau (NCLB)
American Farm Bureau Federation 232
American Federation of Labor (AFL) 232, 237, 268
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) 142–43, 156, 181, 185, 188, 191–93, 195, 196, 199–200, 230n4, 247, 312
American Protective League (APL) 124, 125, 156, 331
American Socialist Society 147–48
American Union Against Militarism (AUAM) 108, 123, 130, 141, 155
Anabaptists 69, 138
Anderson, Orville 146
Anderson, Patton 87
Andresen, Bent 250, 260, 332
anticonscription activists . see antidraft activists
antidraft activists 5, 17, 36, 106–12, 117–18, 120–21, 142, 255–56, 315–21, 324, 325 . antidraft protests ; specific organizations
arrests of 109, 110–12, 144
convictions of 144–48
draft counseling and 299
prosecutions of 106, 106n42, 117
student 109–10, 303
in the Union (Civil War) 36, 40–43
antidraft protests 108–9, 119–20, 304–5, 330
draft card burnings 308–10
draft card turn-ins 248–50, 308–10, 309, 312–13
during Korean War 332
in the Union (Civil War) 304–7
during World War I 110–11, 331, 333
antidraft publications 106–12, 117, 119–21, 144–48, 145, 331 . specific organizations
antidraft resistance . see draft resistance ; see Resistance
antidraft riots 22–24, 40–43, 41n59, 47, 61, 63, 109, 119, 329–30 . antidraft protests
antidraft sentiment 33, 36, 37, 94, 330, 333 . antidraft activists ; antidraft protests ; antidraft riots ; antidraft speech
during Cold War 333
in the Union (Civil War) 36–38, 40–43, 330
during Vietnam War era 36, 37
during World War I 331
during World War II 330–31
antidraft speech 103–4, 106, 106n42, 107 . First Amendment
Anti-Militarism League 331 . Collegiate Anti-Militarism League
antiwar organizations 44, 299 . antidraft organizations ; specific organizations
antiwar protesters 110, 289–90
arrests of 288
Hershey revokes student deferments of 288
punitive Selective Service reclassification of 288–90
Vietnam War era 287–89
Antrim’s Case 59–60
Aquinas, Thomas 63
Are We Facing a Militarized America? 107
Armed Forces Qualifying Test 284
armed resistance, in the Confederacy (Civil War) 81–87, 94, 121, 330
Armfield, Robert F. 83
Armistead, W. B. 91
Armstrong 85
Army Detention Barracks Stormville, Green Lawn, New York 216
Asboth, Alexander 87
Ashland, Kentucky, prison strike in 210
Ashmore, John D. 85–86
Association of Catholic Conscientious Objectors 188, 199
Baer, Elizabeth 144–45, 145
Baez, Joan 306
Baker, Newton D. 95–96, 116, 121, 122, 130, 154
Balch, Emily Greene 265
Baldwin, Roger Nash 141, 147–48, 175, 200–201
Ball, Harry 109
Baltimore Four 320
Baptists 187
Barbeau, Arthur E. 122
Barbour, Simon S. 60
Barnes, David M. 40–41
Baskir, Lawrence M. 250, 284, 298, 328
Bates, Edward 31
Bates, Francis 192
Battle, William Horn 79, 80
Battle of Gettysburg 40
Baty, Don 311
Beale, Howard K. 165
Becker, Morris 110
Beckett, Henry 60–61
Bell, James H. 89–90
Benedict, Donald 201
Bennett, John C. 254
Bennett, Scott 207
Benson, David 305
Benson, Percy George Reginald 115
Berkman, Alexander 106, 106n42, 112, 118–19, 147, 331
Berrigan, Daniel 315, 315n122, 320–21
Berrigan, Philip 5, 314–21, 315n122
Beulah, South Dakota 138
Bevilacqua, Joseph 201, 204
Billings, Arthur 214–16
Billings v. Truesdale 214, 218, 225, 227
Black, Hugo 218, 224, 278
Blacks
1863 conscription statute and 49–51
Black units used as strikebreakers 122
bounty (bonus) system and 50
in combat 122
in CPS camps 198
on draft boards 282–83
enslaved 22, 50
in former Confederate states 282–83
freed after military service 50
induction orders withheld from 122
in the military 21–22, 50, 121–22
in Union Army 22
World War I and 121–22
Blackstone, William 79, 148–49
the Blast 118–19
Board of Inquiry 135–37, 140–41, 143
Booth, Charles 61
Bosky, Jill 311
Bostock v. Clayton County 337–39
Boston Draft Resistance Group 303
Boudin, Leonard 314–15
bounties/bounty (bonus) system 26, 29, 31, 51, 63–64
1863 conscription statute and 48, 50
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 170
Canadian citizens and 52
enslaved men and 50
funding of 53
prohibited in 1917 conscription statutes 99
World War I and 122
in the Union (Civil War) 52–53
bounty jumpers, executions of 53
bounty jumps 52–53
Bowles v. United States 218
Bradley, Omar 237
Bragg, Braxton 70
Break with Conscription demonstrations 248–49, 249, 251, 280, 306, 333
Breen v. Selective Service 291–92, 324
Brethren 127, 150–51, 182, 185–187, 193, 228
Brethren Service Committee (BSC) 188, 247, 252
General Brotherhood Board of the Church of the Brethren 252
meeting with FDR 163
NSBRO and 258
Bristol, Jim 260
Brokaw, Amos 253
Brokaw, Tom 332
brokers 51, 77
Brooks, R. Boland 200, 201
Brown, John 32, 87, 88
Brown, Joseph Emerson 80
Brown, Sevellen 161–62
Browne, William M. 77
Brown v. Board of Education 270n114
Buck, Pearl 265
Bureau of Investigation 124, 125
Bureau of Land Reclamation 188
Bureau of Legal Advice (BLA) 141–42, 157
Bureau of the Provost Marshal General 28, 31–33, 40, 49, 54–55, 59
Burke, Edward R. 159
Burke-Wadsworth bill 159–72
alternative civilian service and 181–82
amendments to the statute 171–72, 171n44
appeals boards in 216
bounties and 170
commutation fees and 170
constitutionality of 219–20
COs and 163–68, 220
December 13, 1941, amendment to 171
December 20, 1941, amendment to 171–72
deferments 169
draft evasion and 170–71
draft refusal and 170–71
exemptions from military duty 169, 204
expansions of age limit, number of draftees, and time served 171
Fathers’ Draft Bill and 172
November 13, 1942, amendment to 172
other provisions 168–71
as peacetime draft 161, 219–20
Quakers and 163–68
requires employers to rehire draftees 170
substitution and 170
US Congress and 166–169, 219–20
US Supreme Court and 171
Butler v. Perry 337
Cadbury, Henry 254
Cadwalader, John 59–60
Califano Joseph 290
California 198, 211, 331
antidraft activists in 109
Supreme Court of 108
“Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority,” 312–15
Campbell, John 77, 84
Camp Cody (New Mexico) 133
Camp Custer (Michigan) 133
Camp Dodge (Iowa) 133
Camp Grant (Illinois) 133
Camp Lewis (Washington) 138
Camp Sherman (Ohio) 133
Camp Travis (Texas) 127
Camp Upton (New York) 133
Canada 317n128
flight to 109, 156, 298, 303
War of 1812 and 15–16, 97
Canadian citizens, bounty (bonus) system and 52
Capozzola, Christopher 2, 3
Carper, Jean 329, 333, 334
Case, Harold 265
Catholic Left 319–20
Catholic Peace Fellowship 305, 319
Catholics 127, 187, 319–21 . specific organizations
Catholic War Veterans Association 232
Catholic Worker movement 161, 304
Catonsville Nine 315–17, 320
Cattell, Owen 110, 331
Catton, Bruce 32, 40
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) 255, 257, 259–62, 300
Chafee, Zechariah 263
Chalmers, Mrs. Allan Knight 263–64
Chambers, John Whiteclay II 2, 155
channeling 4–5, 113–15, 156, 162, 169, 172, 176–77, 226, 235, 246, 307–8, 334–36
Chatfield, Charles 3
Chiarito, Americo 195
Chicago 15, 319
Chicago Area Draft Resistance 303
Chilton, R. H. 76
Chisholm 85
Chomsky, Noam 312
Christian groups 237 . peace churches ; specific organizations
church agencies 188 . specific organizations
Church of the Brethren 185 . Brethren
citizen-soldiers 8, 9–10, 14–15
civil disobedience 40, 248–49, 268–77, 280, 288–90, 304–11, 315–16, 325–26 . specific activities and events
Civil Disobedience Pledge cards 271, 272
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) 189, 191
civilian courts 214–16, 225
civilian prisons, vs. military prisons 227
Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps 180–91, 187n96, 257, 279, 332
Camp 14 193
Camp 52 200
Camp 97 188
Camp 100 188
church-run 188
considered government agencies by US Treasury Department 193
as continuation of CCC 189, 191
controversies regarding 191–201, 192n119
COs and 227–28, 241–42, 251–53
government-run 188
lack of pay in 198–99, 200
medical experiments performed on COs 190–91
morally compromised 228
protestors at 199
psychiatric hospital workers 189–90
Selective Service and 192–93, 192n119, 198–99, 242, 251–52
smoke jumpers 189
supposedly under civilian direction 191–93, 192n119
US Congress and 184, 199
in World War II 181–93, 198–200, 227–28, 233, 241–42, 251–53
civilian registries 167
civil rights 121 . civil rights movements
civil rights leaders 122 . specific individuals
civil rights movements 206, 268–77, 280
Civil War 2, 10, 21
the Confederacy 65–94 ( Confederacy (Confederate States of America, CSA) )
conscription antecedents 20–25
destruction of draft files during 5, 36–37
draft refusers tried, convicted, and shot during 29
the Union 26–64 ( Union )
Clark, Bronson 206
Clark, Charles 80
Clark, Grenville 159, 160
Clark, Mark W. 300
Clark, Ramsey 289–90, 296–97, 313, 327–28
Clark, Tom 251, 254
class bias, substitution and 77, 94
class discrimination 29
Clifford, J. Garry 160
Cobb, Howell 85, 87–88
Coffin, Charles 49
Coffin, William Sloane, Jr. 312–15, 329, 334
Coke, Edward 79
Cold War 229–80
1948 congressional debate 231–34
1948 conscription statute 10, 235–37
alternative civilian service during 332–33
COs during 332–33
draft resisters during 2, 248–57, 280, 332–33
failure to register during 2
induction refusers during 333
public attitudes toward conscription during 279
Coldwell, Joseph 147, 148
Collegiate Anti-Militarism League 109–10
Colored Orphans Asylum 42
commerce clause 18–20
Committee Against Jimcrow in Military Service and Training 268–73, 270n113, 272n120 . League for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation
Committee for Nonviolent Action (CVNA) 305, 310–11, 319, 326, 327
Communist Party 232
commutation 29, 37, 47 . commutation fees
commutation fees 29, 37, 47, 50, 51, 62
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 170
in Confederacy 70, 71
COs and 53–55, 70, 71
funds raised to cover 42–43, 60–61
Quakers and 31, 49, 53–55, 70, 71
substitution and 49
as tax on religious beliefs 126
Confederacy (Confederate States of America, CSA) 20, 65–94
abolishes substitution 78–79, 90, 92
armed resistance in 81–87, 94, 121, 330
arming of slaves to fight for 87–88
brokers in 77
certificates of exemption 77
commutation fees in 70, 71
Congress of 66
Conscription Bureau of 70, 74–76, 80–81, 84, 86
conscription evasion in 73–75
conscription statutes 67–77, 89–93
Constitution of 65–67
COs and 69, 70–71
December 1963 revision of conscription statute in 78–79
desertion in 77, 81–86
draft evasion in 68, 330
draft refusers in 26, 81–86
enrollment officers in 75, 77, 81–82, 85–86
exemptions from military duty 69, 70–73, 75, 78
expansion of draft in 78
failure of conscription in 74–75, 78, 93–94
first Confederate conscription statutes 67–73
general responses to Confederate conscription 73–77
government of 65–66
governors impeding conscription in 80–81
House of Representatives in 66
January 1964 revision of conscription statute 78
legal cases pertaining to conscription statutes 89–93
March 1865 Statute 87–89
Mennonites in 69, 70
new conscription statutes, December 1863–February 1864 78–80
October 1862 amendments to conscription statute 69–72
official state exemptions 80–81
president of 66, 68
provisions of conscription statute in 68–69
Quakers in 69–71
resistance to conscription in 1–2, 26, 330
Senate in 66
state supreme courts in 89–91
substitution in 70, 76–79, 90, 92, 94
Supreme Court of 66–67, 89
suspension of habeas corpus in 92, 93
“twenty-slave law” in 71–73
writ of habeas corpus in 79, 89–90, 92–93
Confederate army, deserters from 73, 76
Conference on Social Action, Chicago, Illinois 195
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) 232, 270n114
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) 180n69, 206, 271, 280
Conkling, Roscoe S. 264
Connecticut
antidraft activists in 112
antidraft riots in 42
Danbury, Connecticut, federal prison strike 207–10, 280
Supreme Court of 61
War of 1812 and 15–16, 97
conscientious objection 201–2 . conscientious objectors (COs)
constitutional right to 127–29, 132, 340–44
as matter of “legislative grace,” 128–29
Conscientious Objector 179–80
conscientious objectors (COs) 7, 138, 143, 150–51, 181–87, 298
1863 conscription statute and 30, 31, 48–49
1917 conscription statute and 99–100, 127, 129–30, 129n128, 154–55, 220
1940 conscription statute and 236
1948 congressional debate and 233
1948 conscription statute and 300
accused of being slackers 143
alternative civilian service and 164–65, 167–68, 181–91, 241–42, 244, 245t, 246–48, 257–58, 260, 332–33
antidraft activists and 108
attitudes toward 136
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 163–68, 220
categories of 125–27, 127n122, 164–65, 236
CCCO and 261–62 ( Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) )
civilian registries for 167
classification of 166, 180–81, 244, 245t
during Cold War 332–33
commutation fees and 53–55, 70, 71
in Confederacy 69, 70–71
count of during Civil War: Union 54–55
court-martialed 134, 155
CPS camps and 180–91, 227–28, 241–42, 251–53, 332 ( Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps )
definitions of 164, 166–67, 220, 300–301, 342
Department of Justice and 167, 168, 236, 277–78
draft boards and 130–31, 167, 187, 221, 285
draft resisters and 126 ( draft resisters )
in England during World War II 342
Espionage Act of 1917 and 105
exemptions from military duty and 236
furloughing of 163
Furlough Law of March 16, 1918, and 134–35
growing numbers during Cold War and Korean War 279
imprisonment of 54, 165, 332
inconsistent treatment of 129–30, 134, 285
inducted 226–27
Madison’s proposed exemption for 12
meaningful work and 196–97
medical experiments performed on 190–91, 197
mistreatment of 133–34, 138–40, 157, 163–64
naturalization and 128–29, 278–79, 340–41
noncombatant duty and 54–55, 126, 130, 135–36, 164, 180–201, 236, 241–42, 244, 245t, 246, 260
nonreligious 167, 168
NSBRO and 257–58, 266 ( National Service Board for Religious Objectors (NSBRO) )
organizations supporting 257–68 ( specific organizations )
origins of beliefs and 127–28
peace churches and 251–52
political 168
precluded from practice of law in Illinois 223–24
provisions for 8, 12, 129–30
recognition by draft boards 142
rejection of CO status by Resistance 308
religious requirement and 168, 220–21
required to pay fees 8
vs. resisters 179–80
risks of being 248
secular 100, 128, 133, 168, 185, 206, 207, 262, 300, 301, 342
selective objection and 128, 293, 323
Selective Service Act of 1948 236
Selective Service and 125–43, 167–68, 179–81, 187, 206, 207, 220–21, 236, 246–48, 247n59
sentences reduced or commuted 141
sentencing of 134, 138–39, 141, 155
as smoke jumpers 189
state statutes prohibiting or restricting hiring of 248
substitution and 70
taxonomies of 125–28
torture of 138–40, 157, 164
UMTSA and 241–42, 246–48
in the Union (Civil War) 53–55
US Congress and 236, 300–301, 341
US Supreme Court and 302n73, 341
in Vietnam War era 299–302, 299t, 341, 342
war effort and 127
working in psychiatric hospitals 189–90
working without pay 227, 228
during World War I 125–43, 154–55, 157, 163–65, 168
during World War II 175, 180–81, 332
conscription
constitutionality of 10–11, 56, 149–53, 219–20, 222, 336–40
in Europe 11
as involuntary servitude or slavery 126, 150, 153, 165, 212, 337, 339–40
opposition to 3, 4, 33, 36–38, 117, 329–31, 333 ( antidraft activists ; antidraft sentiment )
public attitudes toward 3, 4, 117, 279, 324–25, 329–30
public attitudes toward during Cold War 279
unpopularity of 4, 77, 329–30
writ of habeas corpus and ( see writ of habeas corpus )
Conscription Bureau of the Confederacy 70, 74–76, 80–81, 84, 86
Conscription News 263
conscription officers . see enrollment officers
conscription statute of 1863 (Union) 14–15, 26, 27–32, 55–61
amendments to 47–52
Blacks and 49–50, 51
bounty (bonus) system and 48, 50
commutation fees and 29, 37, 47, 50
Congress and 51
constitutionality of 55–57
COs and 30, 31, 48–49
draft calls 27, 28t
enrollment 27, 30
exemptions from military duty 27–28, 48, 50, 58
failure of 62, 63–64
February 1864 amendment 47–50, 54, 55
injustice of 26, 32, 62–64
July 1864 amendment 50, 52, 54
jurisdiction and 58–60
legal cases pertaining to 55–61
March 1865 amendment 50–52
problematic provisions of 28–30, 62–64
registration 27, 30
substitution and 29, 37, 47, 50
two-stage process created by 27, 30, 45, 62–63
conscription statute of 1917 98–100
antidraft protests and 108–9
civilian draft boards and 100–101
constitutionality of 108, 144, 149–53
COs and 99–100, 127, 129–30, 129n128, 154–55, 220
district boards and 101
exemptions from military duty 99
legacies of 156–57
opposition to 103–6
registration requirement and 103
resisters to 248, 250
War Department and 154–55
writ of habeas corpus and 153–54
conscription statute of 1940
COs and 236
resisters to 250
conscription statute of 1948 10, 235–37, 268–77, 280
COs and 300
historic peace churches and 251–52
legal cases pertaining to 277–78
NCAC and 265
protests against 249–50
religious requirement and 300
resistance to 248–57, 249
segregation of US military and 268–77
signed into law 235, 248, 254
conscription statute of 1950 237–40
civil rights amendments proposed to 238
legal cases pertaining to 277–79
opposition to 237–38
US Congress and 237–50
conscription statute of 1967 10, 292–94
congressional debate over 293
legal cases pertaining to 322–24
US Congress and 300–301
conscription statute of 1971 US Congress and 324
conscription statutes 2–4, 95–103, 149–54 . CSA conscription statutes ; specific statutes
conspiracy, publishers charged with 120–21
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia 6, 9
Constitution of 1789 7
Continental Army 6, 7, 9
Continental Congress 6, 9
Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 140
Cooper, Samuel S. 75, 77, 84
Cornell, Tom 305
court cases . see specific cases
court-martial, deserters and 29
Cox, Harvey 320–21
Cox v. Wood 220
Crocker, George William 337
Crowder, Enoch H. 4, 96, 100, 101, 105–6n41, 112, 114–17, 121–23, 123n109, 154, 230
Annual Report to the Secretary of War 114, 131, 162
channeling and 114, 335–36
COs and 129–31
CSA Congress 66–68, 152
abolishes substitution 78–79, 90, 92
CSA conscription statutes 67–79, 88–93
December 1963 revision of conscription statute in 78–79
March 1865 Statute 88–89
meets with Quakers 69
suspension of habeas corpus by 92, 93
CSA conscription statutes 67–77, 89–93
December 1963 revision of conscription statute in 78–79
March 1865 Statute 88–89
Cuba, US refugees in 109
Dallas, Meredith 201
Dana, Samuel W. 12
Danbury, Connecticut, federal prison, strike at 207–10, 280
Dancis, Bruce 306–7, 328
Daniels, Josephus 264
Darrow, Denton 197
Davis, Jefferson 67, 69, 72, 75, 78, 92
Day, Dorothy 161
Dearborn, Henry 16
DeBenedetti, Charles 2–3
Debs, Eugene V. 146, 146n188, 313
Debs v. United States 146, 146n188
Declaration of Independence 6
Dedmon, Jesse O. 233
deferments 4, 177, 189, 216, 226, 292, 308
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 169
channeling and 307
draft dodgers and 302–3
Hershey revokes student deferments of antiwar protesters 288
not accepted by resisters 302
occupational 246, 247
“pyramiding,” 297–98
Selective Service Act of 1948 235–36
student 244, 245t, 246, 285, 288, 295, 296
Delaware 22
colonial era constitution of 152
difficulties of enrollment during Civil War 34
draft refusal in 46, 62
enrollment refusal in 62, 330
funds raised to cover commutation fees 43
nonenrollment rates during Civil War 38
Dellinger, Dave 201, 205, 207, 209, 250, 260, 314
Dellinger, Patch 314
Department of Defense (DOD) 231, 283
Department of Justice 117, 121, 293
APL and 125
Call to Resist members appear at 313
COs and 167, 168, 236, 277–78
declines to defend Hershey’s punitive policy against antiwar demonstrators 290–92
declines to prosecute some cases 322
draft-related prosecutions and 156
new unit created to prosecute draft violators 290
NSBRO and 257
overwhelmed by cases 321–22
prosecution referrals to 256, 256t, 257, 333
in World War II 178
desegregation, of federal prisons 207–10
desertion 29, 52, 73, 76, 77, 81–86
Detzer, Dorothy 175
Devlin, James 53
Dewey, John 264
Diamond, Samuel 111
Dick, Charles 97–98
Dietrich, Albert 197n132
DiGia, Ralph 206, 207, 210, 260
district boards 101
Dixon, Luther S. 24
Doctors’ Draft (1950) 240–42
Dorf, Michael 305
Doty, Joel 253
Doty, Orin 253
Doty, Paul 253
Doty, Sid 253
Doty, William 253
Douglas, William O. 19, 214–15, 219, 278, 305, 323
Dover, Michael 310–11
Downing, Charles 31
draft . see conscription
draft board raids 315–21, 325
draft boards 100, 112, 117, 127, 167, 170, 177, 235, 238–39, 244, 279, 284, 289, 292 . draft board raids
antiwar demonstrations at 288
appeal of decisions 236
autonomy of 287, 325
Blacks on 282–83
bombing of 317
COs and 130–31, 142, 167, 187, 206, 221, 224–25, 285, 298, 298n63, 333
denial of meritorious CO applications 206, 224–25, 333
destruction of cross-reference system during raids 317–18
draft files taken from 311
finality of decisions by 58–60, 153–54, 216–19, 225, 293–94 ( jurisdiction, issues of )
Hershey’s memorandum on “Channeling” to 307
impeded by raids 318–19
inconsistent policies and practices of 284–87, 292, 325
Ku Klux Klan and 283
May 1917 conscription statute and 100–101
procedural and clerical errors by 218, 298–99
quotas and 296
racial composition in former Confederate states 282–83
required to reopen cases when new information was submitted 298, 298n63
Southern 122–23
unpopularity of 117
veterans on 281–82
in Vietnam War era 163, 281–82
in World War II 163, 174
writ of habeas corpus and 153–54
draft calls . Order of Call
1951–63 243, 243t
congressional district allocations and 27, 28, 28t
increase in 284
July 1948–August 1950 238, 239t
in the Union (Civil War) 27–28, 28t
Vietnam War era 281, 284
draft card burnings 250, 251, 289–90, 293, 304–5, 308, 311, 324, 326–27 . draft card turn-ins
large-scale 305–10, 328
prosecutions for 305
draft cards, destruction of 314 . draft card burnings ; draft card turn-ins
draft card turn-ins 308–10, 309, 312–13, 324
draft counseling 141–42, 157, 261–62
draft counselors 295, 299
draft evaders 43, 164, 302–3 . draft evasion
draft evasion 2, 117, 156, 325
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 170–71
in Confederacy 68, 73–75, 330
quiet noncompliance 256
Vietnam War era 296–99
during World War I 330–31
draft files, destruction of 5, 36–37, 311, 315–21, 324, 326
draft law . see conscription statutes
draft objectors, categories of 179–80
draft refusal . draft resistance
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 170–71
in the Confederacy (Civil War) 26
vs. enrollment refusal 45, 62–63
miscalculations of draft refusals 37–38
in the Union (Civil War) 37–38, 40–46, 330
draft refusers 43, 44, 147, 149–53, 207 . draft refusal ; draft resistance
armed bands of 330 ( armed resistance )
calculation of 44–45
during Civil War 29, 43–45, 45t, 46, 46t, 81–86, 330
in the Confederacy 81–86
during Korean War 29
miscalculations of numbers of 37–38
in the Union (Civil War) 44–45, 45t, 46, 46t, 330
during Vietnam War era 29
during World War I 29, 156
during World War II 29
draft registration . see registration
draft resistance 1–2, 119–20, 330 . draft resisters ; Resistance
armed 81–87, 94, 121, 330
criminalization of 29–30, 29n11, 48
draft resisters 126–28, 147–48, 201–7, 323, 325–27 . draft resistance ; Resistance
armed 81–87, 94, 121, 330
Black 272
CCCO and 259–62, 266
during Cold War 2, 248–57, 280, 332–33
vs. COs 179–80
vs. draft dodgers 302–3
imprisonment of 207–10, 211n184, 226–27, 332
NSBRO and 261–62
prisoner protests by 207–10
prosecutions of 253–57, 256t, 257
Puerto Rican 252, 252n74
second prosecutions of 253, 257
selective prosecution of 326–28
UMTSA and 248–57
veterans as 252, 252n74
during World War II 205–6, 332
Druecker v. Salomon 22–23
Du Bois, W.E.B. 121
Duffy, Nora 207
Duggan, Warren 197, 197n132
Dunkards 69, 70, 137
Dunn, John T. 147
Dykstra, Clarence 175, 183–85
Early, Frances 142
Eastland, James O. 234
Eaton, Bob 311
Eberhardt, David 320
Educational Testing Service 244
Eichel, Julius 204–5, 250, 260, 333–34
Einstein, Albert 263, 265
Ekirch, Arthur A., Jr. 4
Ellott, W. L. 24
Ellsberg, Daniel 105
Emancipation Proclamation 42, 55
Emery, Art 198
Emi, Frank S. 210–12
Emlen, James 31
employers, required to rehire draftees 170
Engineer Corps, noncombatant duty in 133
enlistment bounties . see bounties/bounty (bonus) system
enrollment 27–30, 33–34
enrollment officers 28–29
attacks on 1, 22, 26, 33–37, 44, 48, 330
during Civil War 33, 75, 77, 81–82, 85–86
resistance to 33–34
threats to 34–36
enrollment records, theft and destruction of 36–37
enrollment refusal 32–39, 39t, 45, 46, 46t 62–63, 330
enrollment refusers 33–34, 39t, 46, 46t
enrollment resistance 8, 30, 434
enslaved men
arming of to fight for the Confederacy 87–88
bounty (bonus) system and 50
freed after military service 50
in Union Army 22
enumerated powers doctrine 16–20, 56
Episcopalians 228
Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship 199
Espionage Act of 1917 103–5, 119, 120, 144–46, 157
Estep v. United States 216, 219, 225
Evans, Charles 31
Evans, Harold 230n4
Fadem, Pam 311
Fair Play Committee 211–13
Falbo v. United States 216, 218–19, 223
fathers, classification of 245, 245t
Fathers’ Draft Bill 172
Faulkner, William 263
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 251, 257, 277, 278, 308, 311, 318, 326, 327
Federal Council of Churches 182
Federalist Papers
no. 23 11, 79
no. 31 12
no. 41 79
federal prisons, desegregation of 207–10
Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) 161, 179, 194, 199, 209, 259, 266, 280, 319
Ferber, Michael 250, 312, 313, 315, 333
Ferlane, John 53
First Amendment 144, 148–53, 222, 224, 300, 302n73, 314–15, 323, 341–42
First Dick Act 97–98
Firth, Edward 107
Fish and Wildlife Service 188, 191
Fite, Gilbert C. 2
Fitzgerald v. Harris 152
Fitzpatrick, Edward 32, 155
Flasker, Harold 252
Flynn, George 287n23, 289, 290, 290n39, 298, 332, 334
Foley, Michael 290, 307, 314, 334
Ford, Gerald, Presidential Clemency Board 284
Forest, Jim 304
Forest, Linda 317n128
Forest Service 188
Forrestal, James 234
Fort Leavenworth (Kansas) 135, 140, 216
Fort Riley (Kansas) 134
Fort Sumter (South Carolina), attack on 20, 26, 67
Fort Upton (Long Island) 140
Fort Warren (Massachusetts) 53
Forward Hall 117–18
Fosdick, Harry Emerson 263, 265
France, Friends Reconstruction Unit in 135
Franke v. Murray 153
Frankfurter, Felix 278
Freedom Rides 206, 280
free exercise clause 150–51, 341–42 . First Amendment ; Nelles, Walter
Freeman, Fletcher 1
Freeman, Russell 200
French, Paul Comly 165, 166, 182, 185, 194–96, 228
Friends Committee on National Legislation 233
Friends Reconstruction Unit, in France 135
Friends War Problems Committee 182
Frohwerk, Jacob 145–46
Fry, James Barnet 31–33, 36–38, 40, 43–45, 47, 60, 62, 96
Furlough Law 103, 134–35
Gaitlin v. Walton 78–80, 152
Gara, Larry 210, 253–56, 255, 261, 311, 334
Gara, Lenna Mae 254
Gates, Thomas 285
Geary, James W. 38, 44, 61–62
Geddes, Maggie 317n128, 319
Georgia 20
conscript department in 74
draft resistance in 120
exemptions from military duty in 80
racial composition of draft boards in 282–83
Supreme Court of 79, 89–93, 152
Gerber, Daniel 248
Gibson, Truman 269
Gilchrist, Joe 324
Gilchrist v. United States 324
Gillette v. United States 322–23
Girouard v. United States 278–79, 341–43
Goldberg, Arthur 19, 270n114, 314–15
Goldman, Emma 106, 106n42, 112, 117–19, 147, 331, 333, 334
Gonzales v. United States 278
Goodman, Louis 223, 225
Goodman, Mitchell 312–14
Goodman, Paul 314, 315
Gorsuch, Neil 338–39
Gottlieb, Sherry Gershon 329
Graham, William 53
Gray, Harold 204
Great Britain
army of 6
National Service (Armed Forces) Act in 164–65, 167
World War I and 162–63, 335, 336
World War II and 342
Green Corn Rebellion, Oklahoma 119–20, 146, 331
Gregg, Richard 200
Griffith, John 204
Griswold, Erwin 290–91, 290n39
Griswold, Roger 15–16
Gruening, Ernest 293
Gruening, Martha 141
Grunzig, Bruno 141
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 281, 293
Gurney, John Chandler 199, 234
Gutknecht v. United States 324
Habeas Corpus Act 25 . writ of habeas corpus
Hagan, John 298
Hamilton, Alexander 11, 12, 79, 336
Hamilton v. Regents of the University of California 220
Hampton, Wade 16
Harper, Robert G. 12
Harper’s Ferry 32, 87, 88
Harrington, Donald 234, 250, 273
Harris, David 306, 306n91, 307, 328
Harris, Ira 31
Hatfield, Mark 293
Heart Mountain camp 211–13
Heller, Lennie 306
Helms, Jack 283
Hemelcke, Jack 198
Henderson v. United States 270n114
Hennacy, Ammon 111, 204, 334
Henri, Florette 122
Hershey, Lewis B. 4–5, 159, 161–63, 166, 174–75, 178, 182–85, 194, 199, 204, 213, 214, 230, 237, 246
1950 Conscription Statute and 238–39
appears before US Senate Armed Services Committee 278
biography of 287n23
channeling and 307–8, 334, 336
draft card burnings and 289–90
mess left by 287
NSBRO and 258, 259
punitive reclassification of protesters by 324, 325
rejoinder to article in Nation 288–89
retirement of 286
revokes student deferments of antiwar protesters 288
Hester, Hugh B. 265
Hickey, Donald R. 329
Hill, L. H. 91
Hiller, Theodore 147
Hilles, Samuel 31
Hinke, C. J. 311
Hiroshima, Japan, atomic bombing of 213, 233–34
Hoagland, Issachar 61
Hofer, David 138, 139
Hofer, Joseph 138, 139, 157
Hofer, Michael 138, 139, 157
Holmes, Oliver Wendell 144–46, 149
Holmes v. United States 323
homosexuality 169, 235, 297
Hoover, J. Edgar 251, 308, 326, 327
Hough, Emerson 124
Houser, George 201, 250, 273, 277, 280, 306
Houston, Charles Hamilton 270, 271
Hull, William 16
Hunt, Andrew 250, 333
Hunter, Andrew 87
Hutchins, Robert 264
Hutterites 137–39
Idaho 189, 211
Illinois 1, 35–37, 44, 331
antidraft activists in 109, 111, 303
antidraft protests in 108, 109, 319
conscientious objectors in 128
constitution of 128
difficulties of enrollment during Civil War 35–37
draft during Civil War 40, 44
funds raised to cover commutation fees 43
preclusion of COs from practice of law in 223–24
provisions for conscientious objectors in state constitution 8
slacker raids in 123
Indiana 35, 43–44
antidraft vigilantes in 1
conscientious objectors in 128
Constitution of 1851 8, 128
difficulties of enrollment during Civil War 34, 35
draft during Civil War 40, 43–44
provisions for conscientious objectors in state constitution 8
induction orders 292, 294, 318–19, 330 . induction refusers
induction physical, arranging to fail 297
induction refusers 117, 120, 122–23, 123n109, 153, 157, 205–7, 214–16, 221, 252–53, 293, 297, 302, 323, 326, 330, 333 . draft resisters
induction(s)
1951–63 243, 243t
failure to appear for 117, 120, 122–23
intellectual standards for 284
July 1948–August 1950 239t
punitive accelerations of 324
Selective Service and 283
Vietnam War era 281, 282t, 283
voluntary vs. involuntary 283
In re Summers 224
International Workers of the World (IWW) 119n96
Iowa 44, 124
conscientious objectors in 128
constitution of 128
difficulties of draft during Civil War 44
provisions for conscientious objectors in state constitution 8
slacker raids in 124
state statutes prohibiting or restricting hiring of COs 248
Isely, Philip 192
Jackson, Robert H. 323
Jacob, Philip 207
Jakobson, Arno 262, 300
Japanese 175 . Japanese Americans ; Nisei resisters
Japanese American Citizens League 211
Japanese Americans . Nisei resisters
deployed with US Army during World War II 179
drafting of 210–13
internment of 178–79, 179n66, 210–13, 222–23, 225
Japanese internees . see Japanese Americans ; see Nisei resisters
Jaynes, Julian 192
Jews 127, 187, 237, 320
Johnson, Edwin 264, 265
Johnson, Irene 311
Johnson, Louis 237
Johnson, Lyndon B. 18, 281
creates Marshall Commission 284–85
draft card burnings and 289–90, 304
recommendations based on Marshall Commission 292
Johnson, Philip 31
Joint Army Navy Selective Service Committee 159, 164, 227
Jones, Rufus 143
Jones, Samuel 81
Jones, Thomas E. 193
Journey of Reconciliation 280 . Freedom Rides
Joyce, W. A. 82–83
Judge Advocate General’s Department, Board of Inquiry 135–37, 140–41, 143
jurisdiction, issues of 5, 58–60, 154
Kagan, Elena 338
Kansas 331
antidraft activists in 108–11
provisions for COs in state constitution 8
state constitution of 6
Kaufman, Abe 259
Kauten, Matt 210, 221
Kearns, Chris 304
Keim, Albert 185
Keith, Jeanette 121
Kelliher, Victor O. 166
Kellogg, Walter Guest 135, 137–39, 140
Kelsey, Philip 192
Kemp, Nicholas 24
Kennedy, David M. 2
Kennedy, T. Blake 212
Kentucky 22, 36, 37
conscientious objectors in 128
constitution of 128
difficulties of enrollment during Civil War 36, 37
provisions for COs in state constitution 8
Kepler, Roy 238
Keppel, F. P. 132
Kessler, Jeremy K. 136, 157, 334
King, Cyrus 15
King, Francis 49
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 280, 325–26
Kirchwey, Freda 160–61
Klaasen, Johannes 127
Kloeb, Frank 254
Kneedler, Henry S. 55–57
Knox County, Ohio 34
Kohn, Stephen M. 3
Korean War 239, 240, 279
1948 statute and segregation in the military 268–77
1950 congressional debate and conscription statute 237–40
CCCO and 257–67
COs and 246–48
Doctors’ Draft (1950) 240–41
draft in operation 243–46
draft protests during 332
draft refusers during 29
legal cases pertaining to conscription statute 277–79
NCAC and 257–67
NSBRO and 257–67
Korematsu v. United States 223
Kos, John 133–34
Kosch, Lewis 194–95
Kramer, Louis 110
Kuhn, George 53
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), draft boards and 283
Kunkle, Louis 61
Kuromiya, Yosh 211
labor groups 237 . specific groups
Labor Temple, demonstration at 251
Lai, Emile 53
Langer, William 234, 238
Laughlin, Donald E. 248
Lauter, Paul 312
Lawson, Belford, Jr. 270, 270n114
Lay, George 77, 84, 86
Leach, Jack Franklin 2
League for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Against Military Segregation 273–77, 274, 275
Lee, Robert E. 50, 87
Legal Service to Conscientious Objectors (LSCO) 200
Lepke, Louis 207
Levine, Peter 38, 44, 62
Lewis, Tom 315–16
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, prison strike in 209, 210
Lincoln, Abraham 10, 50
1863 conscription statute and 27–28, 47
amendments to conscription statute of 1863 and 47
draft calls issued by 27, 28t
Emancipation Proclamation and 42
Militia Act of 1862 and 26
Proclamation 83 20–21, 26
Proclamation 104 60
proclamation seconding state militia into federal service 20
Quaker delegation and 31
signs Conscription Statute of 1863 26, 57
signs Militia Act of 1862 21–22
suspension of habeas corpus by 24, 25
Lonn, Ella 2
lotteries 27, 38, 43–44, 206
1967 ban on 292
Nixon repeals ban on 294
Vietnam War era 292, 294–95
during World War I 116–17
in World War II 177–78
Louis, Joe 270
Louisiana 20, 282, 283
Lovall, William 201
Lowrie, Walter H. 56
Luginbill, John 311
Lutherans 187
lynchings, antidraft riots and 42
Lynd, Staughton 250, 333
Lynn, Wilfred 272
Lyttle, Bradford 319
Macdonald, Dwight 251, 314
MacGruder, John B. 87
Mack, Julian W. 135
MacKall, William 84
Macy, Jesse 55
Madden, Hillary 44
Madison, James 12–13, 15–16, 79, 329
Magna Carta 24
Maine
draft refusal in 46, 62
enrollment refusal in 62, 330
nonenrollment rates during Civil War 38
provisions for conscientious objectors in state constitution 8
Supreme Court of 60
Man, Albon 259, 260
Mancos (Colorado) CPS Camp 198
Manoukian, Armenag James 198
Manpower Registration Act 239–40
manumission, for enslaved men serving in Union Army 22
Marshall, John 17, 58
Marshall, Thurgood 270, 270n114
Marshall Commission 292
report of 284–86
US Congress and 286
Maryland 22
colonial era constitution of 152
difficulties of enrollment during Civil War 35–36
draft boards in 5
Mason, Jeremiah 15
Massachusetts 331
antidraft activists in 109, 110
colonial era constitution of 152
nonenrollment rates during Civil War 38
state militia of 15–16
Supreme Court of 16
War of 1812 and 15–16, 97
Masterson, Peter 41
Mayer, Julius B. 147–48
Mayer, Milton 250
McCague, James 40
McCarty, Charles 53
McCarty, Eli 43–44
McClain, James 297
McClellan, George 67
McCulloch, H. E. 86–87
McCulloch v. Maryland 89–90
McFadden, Gilbert 253
McGoldrick, James 305
McGrath, Howard 234
McLean, Franklin 189
McNutt, Paul 174–75, 196
McPherson, James M. 32
McReynolds, David 305, 314
Meconis, Charles A. 317, 319–20
Medical Corps 132, 196, 197
medical evaders 76
Melton, C. D. 85–86
Mengel, James 320
Mennonites 127, 131, 134–35, 137–38, 150–51, 182, 185–88, 193, 220, 228, 253
in Confederacy 69, 70
meet with FDR 163
Mennonite Central Committee 185, 188, 191–92, 247, 252
NSBRO and 258
in Virginia 69
Mental Health Hygiene Program 190
Methodists 127, 187, 188, 228
Methodist World Peace Commission 188
Mexican-American War of 1848 16, 97
Michener, Robert 253
Michigan 331
antidraft activists in 108, 109, 111
antidraft publications in 109, 111
Constitution of 1851 8
provisions for conscientious objectors in state constitution 8
slacker raids in 124
Michigan Socialist 109, 111
military courts 29, 214–16, 255
military prisons 138–40, 227 . specific prisons
Military Training Camps Association 159, 160
Militia Act of 1792 14
Militia Act of 1795 14, 15, 20, 21
Militia Act of 1862 21–24, 26, 56
Militia Act of 1903 97–98
Militia Act of 1908 98
militias . see state militias
Miller, David 304
Miller, Morris S. 15
Miller, Orie O. 182
Miller, W. 87
Milton, John 75
Minidoka camp 211
Minnesota
provisions for conscientious objectors in state constitution 8
slacker raids in 123, 124
Supreme Court of 61
Mississippi 20
conscript department in 74
exemptions from military duty in 80
racial composition of draft boards in 282
Missouri 22
antidraft activists in 111, 112
draft refusal in 46, 62
enrollment refusal in 62
slacker raids in 124
Mitchell, David 323
Mitchell, John N. 328
Mitchell v. United States 323
Mollin, Marian 317, 319–20
Monroe, James 17
Monroe Doctrine 169
Moore, Albert Burton 2, 72, 73, 76–77
Moore, George F. 89
Moore, Howard 140, 141, 204–5
Moravians 82
Mormon Church 232–33
Morrow County, Ohio 33–34
Morse, Wayne 269
Muller, Eric L. 212, 222
Mumma, Richard 314
Murdock, Eugene C. 2, 33, 38, 44, 61–64
Murphy, William Francis 218–19
Muste, A. J. 200, 250, 250n64, 259, 260, 263, 272–73, 276, 277, 305, 333–34
Mygatt, Tracy 141, 157
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 121, 233, 270
Naeve, Lowell 207
Nagasaki, Japan, atomic bombing of 213, 233–34
Nation 313–14
National Advisory Commission on Selective Service (Marshall Commission) 284–86, 292 . Marshall Commission
National Civil Liberties Bureau (NCLB) 133, 139–42, 149–53, 156–57, 300
National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (NCCO) 200–201
National Congress of Parents and Teachers 232
National Council against Conscription (NCAC) 237, 250, 257, 262–68, 267, 268, 270n113, 279, 333
National Council Against Peacetime Conscription Now 263
National Council for Religious Objectors 182–83
National Council of Churches 182
National Defense Act of 1916 97–99, 106
National Farmers Union 232
National Grange 232, 237
National Guard 97–99, 106, 158–59, 231
Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico 252
National Mental Health Foundation 190
National Park Service 188
national security training corps, proposal of 242
National Service (Armed Forces) Act, in Great Britain 164–65, 167
National Service Board for Religious Objectors (NSBRO) 182–86, 192–201, 248
Appeals Section 200
Board of 194, 199
CCCO and 259–62
Consultative Council 199
COs and 257–59, 266
Directory of Civilian Public Service 187n96
Hershey and 258, 259
historic peace churches and 258
job referral for COs in alternative civilian service 258
petitioned by CPS men for pay 198
Placement Division 200
resisters and 261–62
Selective Service and 195, 199–201, 228, 257–59, 259
UMTSA and 257–59
National Student Association 289
naturalization, COs and 128–29, 278–79, 340–41
Nazarenes 70
Nearing, Scott 147, 148, 250
Nelles, Walter 149–53, 222, 224, 300, 302n73, 323, 341–43
Nelson, Wally 198, 280, 332
New Deal 102, 136, 189
New England Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) 305, 310, 326, 327 . Committee for Nonviolent Action (CVNA)
New Hampshire
enrollment refusal in 330
funds raised to cover commutation fees 43
nonenrollment rates during Civil War 38
state constitution of 6
New Jersey 60–61, 123
antidraft activists in 111–12
antidraft riots in 42
difficulties of enrollment during Civil War 33, 34
racial composition of draft boards in 283
slacker raids in 123, 124
New Jersey Council Against Conscription 234, 273
New Left Notes 307
New Negro Alliance 270n114
New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery 270n114
New York 51
antidraft activists in 110–12
antidraft protests in 110, 331, 333
antidraft publications in 111
antidraft riots in 4, 26, 40–43, 41n59, 47, 61, 329–30
antiwar activists in 110
bonds issued to cover commutation fees in 42–43
draft during Civil War 40
draft lottery in 40
lynchings during antidraft riots 42
provisions for conscientious objectors in state constitution 8
ratifying convention in 7
slacker raids in 124
state courts in 59
state militia of 16
New York Council of Churches 233–34
New York Eight 316
New York Resistance chapter 302–3
New York Workshop in Nonviolence 319, 326
Nicholson, Vincent 143
Nickels, William F. 55–57
Niebuhr, Reinhold 254
Ninety-Second Division 122
Ninety-Third Division 122
Nisei resisters 210–13
in concentration camps 211n184
conviction and imprisonment of 212–13
drafting of 210–13, 225
mass trial of 212, 222–23, 225
Nixon, Richard M. 286
Executive Order 11497 294
proposal to end draft during candidacy 293–94, 296
repeals ban on Selective Service lottery 294
Nixon administration 291–92, 296
No-Conscription League 106–8, 106n42, 107, 109, 110, 112, 118–19
noncombatant certificates 127, 131
noncombatant duty 126, 233 . conscientious objectors (COs)
COs and 54–55, 100, 130, 135–36, 164, 180–201, 236, 241–42, 244, 245t, 246, 260
meaningful work and 196–97
Quakers and 53–55
noncombatant service, Wilson’s order defining 132–33
noncompliance, quiet 256, 296–97
noncooperators 126–27, 127n122, 128, 135, 259–62, 302 . resisters
nonenrollment rates, in the Union (Civil War) 38
nonregistrants 126, 142, 201–7, 252 . draft resisters
prosecutions of 203–4
quiet 296–97
during World War II 205–6, 333–34
North Carolina 69, 82–86
antidraft activity in 119
armed resistance in 82–85
draft resistance in 120
exemptions from military duty in 80
Quakers in 69, 71, 82–83
ratifying convention in 7
state constitution of 6
Supreme Court of 78–80, 92, 92n90, 93, 152
Northern Baptists 228
NSBRO Reporter 258, 259, 260
nuclear weapons 233–34
Nugent, Robert 30
Nuremberg defense 323
Oakes, James 35
O’Brien, David 305
O’Brien, Henry 42
O’Connor, John 52–53
Oestereich v. Selective Service 290–94, 324
Office of Selective Service Records 213, 235
O’Hare, Kate Richards 147, 147n193, 334
O’Hare v. United States 147, 147n193
Ohio 34, 146
antidraft activists in 111, 112
antidraft publications in 110
antidraft riots in 109
Constitution of 1802 6
difficulties of enrollment during Civil War 33–34
nonenrollment rates during Civil War 38
provisions for conscientious objectors in state constitution 8
slacker raids in 124
state militia of 16
Oklahoma 119
antidraft protests in 119–20
antidraft resistance in 119–20
draft resistance in 119–20
Green Corn Rebellion in 119–20, 146, 331
resistance to World War I draft in 1
Olmstead, Frank 250
Olmstead, Mildred 259
Opdyke, George 42–43
Order of Call 288–89, 292
originalism 336
Otis, Harrison 12
overage draft violators 205
Owen, Chandler 121
Pacific Branch, Disciplinary Barracks, Alcatraz Island, the Hole at 138–39
pacifist organizations 326–27 . specific organizations
pacifists 30–31, 40, 100, 125–33, 136, 164, 167–68, 181–87, 194, 205–6, 319, 342 . pacifist organizations ; peace churches
religious 8–9, 127–28, 150–51
secular 133
Paris Peace Agreement 281, 286
Parker, Eleanor 110, 331
Patterson v. Colorado 149
peace activists 17, 165, 200, 201, 206 . pacifists ; pacifist organizations
US Congress and 165–66
World War II and 161, 174–75
peace churches 163–64, 181–91, 193–201, 227–28, 257 . Brethren ; Mennonites ; Quakers
1948 congressional debate and 233
1948 conscription statute and 251–52
COs and 251–52
NSBRO and 258
resistance and 251–52
service committees of 247
testimony against UMT 232
Peace Committee of New York Friends Meeting 179
Peacemaker 319
peace organizations 156, 232 . pacifist organizations ; specific organizations
peacetime conscription 10, 12n20, 160–61, 164n24, 219–20, 233, 235, 240, 263, 279
illegality arguments 323
skepticism of 239–40
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on 160, 172, 178, 185–86, 342
Pearson, D. C. 85
Pearson, Lawrence 117
Pearson, Richmond M. 92, 92n90, 93
Peck, Jim 180, 180n69, 206, 207, 280, 319
Pennsylvania 34, 36, 37, 43, 44, 331
antidraft activists in 109
conscientious objectors in 128
constitution of 128
difficulties of enrollment during Civil War 34, 36, 37
draft during Civil War 40, 43, 44
nonenrollment rates during Civil War 38
provisions for conscientious objectors in state constitution 8
slacker raids in 123
state constitution of 6
state courts in 59
Supreme Court of 55–57
Pentagon . see Department of Defense (DOD)
People’s Forum 147
Peter, Britt 262, 300
Petersburg, Virginia, prison strike in 209
Peterson, Dutton 233–34
Peterson, H. C. 2
Phelan, James 72
Philadelphia Convention (1787) 6, 9
Phillips, Charles 110, 331
Phillips, John 305
Pickett, Clarence 230n4
Piel, Eleanor Jackson 223
Pikesville, Alabama 87
Pillow, Gideon J. 84
plantation owners, exempted from conscription in Confederacy 71–73
Polk, James 97
poll tax, barred in Selective Service Act of 1948 234
Post Office 119, 122
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. 269
preinduction physical examinations 117, 297
Presbyterians 187, 228
Presidential Clemency Board 284
President’s Advisory Commission on Universal Training 230–31, 230n4
Preston, John L. 74–76, 86
Price, Paton 192, 193
Pringle, Cyrus 54, 126
prisons . specific prisons
civilian 227
desegregation of 207–10
federal 207–10
military 138–40, 227
segregation in 207–10
prison strikes 207–10 . specific events
prosecutions
of antidraft activists 106, 106n42, 117
for counseling others to resist 253, 312–15
Department of Justice and 156, 256, 256t, 257, 333
for draft card burnings 305
of draft resisters 326–28
by fiscal year, Vietnam era 321t
low conviction rate 322
for nonregistration 203–4
of resisters 253–57, 256t, 257
second 253, 257
selective 326–28
Vietnam War era 321–22, 321t
during World War I 144–49
provost marshals 28, 34–37, 43, 58–60
attacks on 33, 37, 41, 42
provost marshals general 30–33, 36–38, 96
A Quaker Action Group 40
Quaker Belt 82
Quaker Peace Testimony 30–31
Quakers 8, 30–31, 126–27, 131, 143, 150–51, 185, 187, 220, 228, 311, 320
abolitionism and 71, 82
antiwar sentiments and 82
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 163–68
commutation fees and 31, 49, 53–55, 70, 71
in Confederacy 69–71
meet with FDR 163
memorial presented to Congress 30–31
noncombatant duty and 53–55
in North Carolina 69, 71, 82–83
NSBRO and 258
US Congress and 165, 166
War Department and 165
during World War II 182
Quaker Yearly Meetings 49, 54–55, 71, 228
Quartermaster Corps 132–33, 196
Questions on Civil Disobedience 272
racial discrimination, in Selective Service 234 . racism
racism 233
antidraft riots and 42
Selective Service and 121–22, 234
Raley, Bill 301–2, 302n73
Randolph, A. Philip 121, 233, 268–73, 270n113, 272n120, 276–77
Randolph, George W. 81
Raskin, Marcus 312–14
Recht, Charles 141
Reed, David 305
Reed, Joseph 57
Reeves, George 200, 201, 250
refugees, from 1917 conscription statute 109
Reginald, Percy 335
registration 30, 170, 244, 331
arrests for not registering 117
opposition to 117
Selective Service Act of 1948 and 235
registration evasion 117
registration forms
COs and 130
printed before laws passed or enacted 130, 154, 161
registration rates, World War I draft and 112–13
registration refusal 157, 203–4, 252, 253, 293, 323–24, 326
Reinese, George 53
religion . specific religions
COs and 8–9, 168, 220–21, 236, 300
religious discrimination 302n73
religious pacifists 127–28, 150–51
religious requirement
1948 Conscription Statute and 300
COs and 168
definition of “religious training and belief,” 236
Reserve Officers’ Training Corp (ROTC) 220
reserves, enlistment after receiving induction orders 292 ( National Guard )
Resistance 325–27, 328, 334 . draft resisters ; resistance
draft card burnings and 304–7
draft card turn-ins organized by 308–10, 309
rejection of CO status 302, 308
rejection of student deferment option 308
Vietnam War era 302–11
resistance 29–30, 29n11 . draft resisters ; Resistance
peace churches and 251–52
prosecutions for counseling others to resist 253
Reuther, Victor 265
Reynolds, Grant 270–73, 276–77
Rhode Island 120, 147
draft refusers in 147
draft resistance in 120, 147, 148
General Assembly of 127–28
racial composition of draft boards in 283
ratification convention of 7
Richards, Edward 205
Richards, Ned 205
Richards, William 205
Rickert, Charles 254
Riley, John 53
Roberts, John 19–20
Roberts, Owen J. 232
Robinson, James Stewart 43
Roodenko, Igal 210, 260, 280, 332
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 102, 136, 158, 161, 174
bans voluntary enlistment 158–59, 226
calls National Guard into active service in the army 158–59
CPS camps and 184, 185
Executive Order 9279 176
meets with historic peace churches 163
signs Burke-Wadsworth bill 182, 216
signs conscription bill into law 160, 160
War Manpower Commission and 174–75
Roosevelt (FDR) administration 159
Rosen, David 311
Rubenfeld, Jed 305
Rubin, Dena Shoshana 310–11
Rumsfeld, Donald 293
Rundal, George 146
Russell, Richard 234
Russo, Anthony 105
Rustin, Bayard 194, 210, 210n174, 250, 272–73, 276, 277, 280
Rutenberg, Amy J. 294n50, 334–35
Ryals, Jack Bryant 337
Ryan, Thomas 53
Sacher, John M. 72
Saltonstall, Leverett 234
Sandin, Max 204
Sandstone, Minnesota, prison strike in 210
Sayre, John Nevin 161, 200
Scalia, Antonin 338
Schecter, Barnet 41
Schenck, Charles T. 144–45, 145
Schenck v. United States 144–45, 145, 148, 255–56, 315
Seaver, David 253
Seaver, Paul 253
Second Amendment 12
Second Dick Act 98
Seddon, James 69, 74–75, 77, 78, 87–88, 90–91
sedition, as criminal offense 148
Sedition Act of 1918 103–5
Seeger, Daniel 262, 300
segregation 268–77, 270n114
1948 conscription statute and 268–77
Korean War and 268–77
in prisons 207–10
Truman and 273, 276
of US military 122, 225, 233, 234, 268–77
Selective Draft Law Cases (Arver) 10, 149–53, 219, 220, 222, 224, 300, 337, 340, 341, 343
selective objection 128, 293
Selective Service 26, 102–3, 112–13, 161, 169–70, 175, 230–31, 257, 279
on 1863 conscription statute 32
1948 congressional debate and 231–34
as administrative agency 101–2, 170, 225, 235
alternative civilian service and 188–89
APL and 125
appeals boards 168, 170, 174, 216–17, 235, 236, 277–78
attempts to hide shortfalls 283
ban on volunteers 116, 226
bill reestablishing 232–34
calls to bar racial discrimination in 234
CCCO and 257, 259–62
channeling and 156, 334–36
classification systems 113–15, 122, 154–56, 170, 176–81, 176t, 210–11, 224, 244–45, 245t, 247, 247n59, 285, 295, 332
considered unnecessary 238–39
COs and 125–43, 167–68, 179–81, 187, 206, 207, 220–21, 246–48, 247n59
CPS camps and 192–93, 192n119, 198–99, 242, 251–52
decentralization of 284, 287
finality of decisions by 153–54, 218, 293–94
Form 150 257, 301
illegal actions by 288, 291–92, 322
incompetent staff in 286
Japanese Americans and 179
Local Board Memorandum 106 297
Local Board Memorandum 107 285, 301
lowers intellectual standards for induction 284
NCAC and 257, 262–68
NSBRO and 195, 199–201, 228, 257–59, 259
Office of Selective Service Records 213
Order of Call 288–89, 292
overwhelmed by cases 321–22, 328
philosophy of 165–66
Presidential Appeal Board 174–75
problems faced in Vietnam war era 324–25
proposed reconstitution of 231
re-created in Selective Service Act of 1948 235
regional appeals board 174
response to draft board raids 318
systemic racism and 121–22
US citizens of Japanese ancestry and 178–79
US Congress and 231–34, 284–85 ( specific legislation )
War Department and 156
Wilson administration and 155, 156
work or fight order 115–16
during World War I 95–157
during World War II 174–77, 176t, 182–84, 224–25
writ of habeas corpus and 153–54
selective service (concept) 229–31, 257, 262–68, 279 . Selective Service
Selective Service (publication) 288
Selective Service Act of 1917 102–4, 107, 120, 180
Selective Service Act of 1948 234, 235–37
appeals boards and 235
civil rights amendments proposed to 234, 238
COs and 236
deferments 235–36
draft boards and 235
exemptions from military duty 235–36
expiration of 237
as first peacetime draft in US history 235
Selective Service Appeal Board 236
US Congress and 272, 272n120
“Utilization of Industry” and 236–37, 236n26
Selective Service Act of 1950, passage of 240
Selective Training and Service Act 161, 215, 216, 219
Shakers 8
Sharp, Gene 265
Shedd, William E. III 4, 162–63, 166, 336
Sheffey, Daniel 15
Shorter, John 85
Shoup, David 285
Sibley, Mulford 207
Siebels, J. J. 84
Simmons v. United States 278
skedaddlers 29, 330
skulkers 29, 76, 330
slacker raids 123–25
slackers 123–25, 143
slavery 22, 42, 94, 150, 337, 339–40 . abolitionism ; enslaved men
Sleeping Car Porters Union 268–69
Slicer, Samuel 43–44
Smith, Francis B. 55–57
Smith, Miner 43
Smith, Tommy 43
Snowden, Edward 105
Snyder, Texas 108, 331
Socialist Party 101, 107, 111, 117, 144, 145, 146–48, 175
Soil Conservation Service 188
South Carolina 20, 85–86, 204
South Dakota 138
Southern Baptist Convention 232
Sparkman, John 234
Spencer, Samuel R., Jr. 160
Spock, Benjamin 312–15, 329, 334
Spragg, Howard 201
Springs, H. B. 204
Stach, Alex 193
standing armies 14, 56
in age of nuclear weapons 233–34
hostility toward 10
modes of procuring 12
skepticism of 6–7, 12, 15, 229
Stanton, Edwin 30, 31, 42, 49, 50, 60
state constitutions 6–7 . under specific states
state militias 8, 9, 12–15, 56, 97
conscription and 8–9, 152
federal government and 16
idealization of 9–10
seconded to federal service 16, 17, 20, 21, 97–98
War of 1812 and 15–16, 97
St. Clair, James 314–15
Stennis, John 234
Stephens, Donald 337
Stephens, John 310
Stevens, John 1
Stevens, Thaddeus 31
Stewart, Potter 323
Stilson, Joseph 120–21
Stimson, Henry L. 98, 162, 336
Stoddard, Richard C. 135
Stone, Harlan Fiske 135–37
Stop the Draft Week 310
Story, Joseph 150
Strauss, William A. 250, 284, 298, 328
Stringer, Levi M. 70
Strong, Caleb 15–16
Strong, William 57
student associations 232 . specific organizations
student deferments 244, 245t, 246, 285, 308
Hershey revokes student deferments of antiwar protesters 288
inequity of 296
phasing out of 296
voluntary relinquishment of 295
students, mandatory II-S classification for undergraduate 292 . student deferments
Students for a Democratic Society 334
New Left Notes 307
substitutes 29, 37, 50, 51
abolished in Confederacy 78–79, 90, 92
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 170
class bias and 77, 94
commutation fees and 49
in Confederacy 70, 76–79, 90, 92, 94
conscientious objectors (COs) and 70
desertion by 77
prohibited in 1917 conscription statutes 99
Suffet, Steve 310
Sugar, Morris 111
Sukys, Joseph 120–21
Summers, Clyde 223–24
Sutherland, Bill 209, 272–73, 276, 277
Sweeny, Dennis 306, 306n91, 307
Swomley, John, Jr. 250, 263, 270n113
Symes, John Foster 198, 216
Talley, Manuel 210
Tarr, Curtis 286–87, 295, 296, 301
Tatum, Georgia Lee 72
technical agencies 188–89
Templin, Lawrence 205
Templin, Ralph 205
Tennessee 121, 331
Texas 20, 81–87, 108, 331
antidraft activists in 108, 112
antidraft riots in 119
armed resistance in 86–87
draft resistance in 120
slacker raids in 124
Supreme Court of 89–90, 152
textualism 338
Thirteenth Amendment 106, 108, 144, 150, 153, 212, 222, 337, 339–40
Thomas, Evan 200, 204–5, 333–34
Thomas, Norman 101, 105, 151, 175, 200
Tillich, Paul 254
Tobey, Samuel 49
torture 138–40, 157, 164
Toussie v. United States 323–24
Tracy, James 207
training schools for delinquent youth 247
Treaty of Paris 6
Trueblood, Elton 254
Truman, Harry S. 213, 214
address to Congress 231, 264
Break with Conscription demonstrations and 251
Committee Against Jimcrow in Military Service and Training 270–71
Executive Order 9981 273, 276
Korean War and 237, 237n27
NCAC and 263
President’s Advisory Commission on Universal Training 230–31, 230n4, 269
segregation of US military and 270–71, 273, 276–77
Selective Service System and 230
signs Selective Service Act of 1948 235, 248, 254, 257
signs Selective Service Act of 1950 240
signs stop-gap bill extending 1948 conscription law 240
UMT and 230
“Utilization of Industry” and 237, 237n27
Tule Lake Relocation Center 211, 222
“twenty-slave law,” 71–73
Twin Cities Resistance 302–3
Union 20, 26–64, 95, 96
1863 conscription statute 26–32, 47–52, 55–61
amendments to 1863 conscription statute 47–52
antidraft activists 36, 40–43
antidraft riots during 63
antidraft sentiment 40–43
bounties 52–53
conscription officers driven out of Rutland, Vermont 1
COs and 53–55
draft calls 27–28, 28t
draft refusal 40–46, 330
enrollment refusal 32–39
legal cases pertaining to 1863 conscription statute 55–61
miscalculations of draft refusals during 37–38
nonenrollment rates during 38
opposition to the draft 36–38
war casualties 40
writ of habeas corpus and 57–60
Union Army 20–22
Union Eight 201–2, 202, 203, 204, 205, 209, 213, 250
Union Theological Seminary 110, 201–2
Unitarians 228
United Church of Christ 293
United States, interventions by 234
United States v. Macintosh 128–29, 278, 341
United States v. Nugent 277–78
United States v. O’Brien 305, 340
United States v. Sauler 216
United States v. Schwimmer 128–29, 278, 340–41
United States v. Seeger 300–302, 323, 341–43
universal military training (UMT) 229–31, 237
1948 Congressional Debate and 231–34
NCAC and 263, 266
opposition to 232–34
testimony against 232–34
Universal Military Training and Service Act (UMTSA)
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors and 257, 259–62
conscientious objectors (COs) and 241–42, 246–48
National Council against Conscription (NCAC) and 257
National Council against Conscription and 257, 262–68
National Service Board for Religious Objectors (NSBRO) and 257–59
resisters and 248–57
Vietnam War era and 242
US Army
National Guard and 98–99
size at beginning of Civil War 7
World War I and 95, 97, 158–59
World War II and 158
US-Canada extradition treaty 298
US Census 7, 38
US Congress 13–14, 24, 56–57 . specific legislation
1790 creation of professional standing army 14
1798 debate 12
1814 debate 17
1814 proposal and 15
1863 conscription statute and 30–31, 47–52
1917 conscription statute and 129–30
1948 congressional debate 231–34
1950 congressional debate 237–50
1950 conscription statute and 237–50
1967 conscription statute and 292–94, 300–301
1971 conscription statute and 324
administrative agencies and 101–2
authorizes FDR to call National Guard into service in the army 158–59
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 159–62, 166–69, 171–72, 216, 219–20
channeling and 114–15, 246, 335
COs and 236, 300–301, 341
CPS camps and 184, 199
creation of Selective Service 102–3
Doctors’ Draft (1950) and 240–41
draft card burnings and 304
draft resistance and 304
extends Doctor’s Draft 242
extends UMTSA 242
failure to reform Selective Service in 1967 286
Fathers’ Draft Bill 172
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and 281
Hershey and 278
Madison and 329
Manpower Registration Act and 239–40
Marshall Commission and 286
Militia Act of 1792 14
Militia Act of 1795 14, 15
Militia Act of 1862 21–22
Monroe Doctrine and 169
National Defense Act of 1916 and 98–99
NCAC and 257, 263–66
Quakers and 165, 166
ratification of Lincoln’s Proclamation 83, 21
Sedition Act of 1918 and 104
segregation of US military and 269, 270
Selective Service Act of 1917 and 102–3
Selective Service Act of 1948 and 235, 272, 272n120
Selective Service Act of 1950 and 240
selective service and 229–31, 284–85
Selective Training and Service Act 215, 219
tries to address litigation 293
tries to divest federal courts of jurisdiction in cases against Selective Service 293–94
UMT and 229–31
War of 1812 and 17
World War I draft and 4, 95, 102–3
World War II draft and 4, 159–62, 166–69, 171–72, 213, 216, 219–20, 336
writ of habeas corpus and 24–25
US Constitution 7, 9–16, 80, 128, 336–40
article 1 9–11, 13, 14, 20–21, 24, 56, 57, 97, 150
article 1, section 8 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 20–21, 56, 57
article 1, section 9 24
bifurcation on military power of Congress 9–10, 13
Bill of Rights 12
citing Confederate state rulings 152
commerce clause 18–20
COs and 12, 132
the draft and 336–40
establishment clause 150–51
First Amendment 144, 148–53, 222, 224, 300, 302n73, 314–15, 323, 341–42
Fourteenth Amendment 224, 336
Fourth Amendment 123, 124
free exercise clause 150–51, 222, 340–43
originalism and 336
powers over military matters given to Congress 9, 11
Preamble to 57, 63
provisions for conscientious objectors in 12
Second Amendment 12
textualism and 338
Thirteenth Amendment 106, 108, 144, 150, 153, 212, 222, 337, 339–40
writ of habeas corpus and 58 ( writ of habeas corpus )
US Department of Agriculture 247
US Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth 216
US Forest Service 188, 189, 191
US House of Representatives 12, 15, 17 . US Congress
1814 debate and 17
1948 Congressional Debate and 231–34
Armed Services Committee 234
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 159–62, 166
Committee on Military Affairs 114–15, 159, 161–62
House Military Affairs Committee 130
Manpower Registration Act and 239–40
Military Affairs Committee 96, 165, 166
Quaker delegation and 31
Webster’s speech before 16–17, 107, 329
US Marine Corps, ban on volunteers 116
US military . specific branches
racial segregation of 121–22
segregation in 122, 225, 233, 234, 268–77
US Navy 95, 116
US Public Health Service 247
US Secret Service 125
US Senate 15 . US Congress
1948 Congressional Debate and 231–34
Armed Services Committee 234, 240, 269, 278
Burke-Wadsworth bill and 159–62
Committee on Military Affairs 159, 161–62
Military Affairs Committee 165
Quaker delegation and 31
segregation of US military and 269
US Supreme Court 10, 79, 89–90, 148, 213, 216–17, 224 . specific cases
CCCO and 300
constitutionality of conscription and 337
convictions upheld by 121
COs and 129, 302n73, 300, 341
enumerated powers and 17
Nixon administration and 291–92
“Utilization of Industry” and 237n27
US Treasury Department 193
“Utilization of Industry,” Selective Service Act of 1948 and 236–37, 236n26, 237n27
Vance, Zebulon Baird 80, 82–84
Van Kirk, Walter 182
Van Rensselaer, Stephen 16
Vermont 35
conscription officers driven out of 1
difficulties of enrollment during Civil War 35
nonenrollment rates during Civil War 38
provisions for conscientious objectors in state constitution 8
racial composition of draft boards in 283
state constitution of 6
veterans
on draft boards 281–82
as draft resisters 252, 252n74
Selective Service Act of 1948 236
Veterans Administration hospitals 247
Vietnam War 2, 4, 16–17, 250
1967 conscription statute 10, 292–94
call to resist illegitimate authority 312–15
civil disobedience during 304–11
conscription statute 292–94, 322–24
COs and 179–80, 262, 299–302, 341–42
destruction of draft files during 315–321
distinction between COs and resisters and 179–80
draft boards during 163, 281–82, 315–21
draft calls during 281, 284
draft card burnings during 304, 305, 308, 310 ( draft card turn-ins )
draft counseling and 157
draft resistance during 302–11
the end of the draft 294–96
evaders during 296–99
inductions during 281
legal cases pertaining to conscription statute 322–24
lotteries during 292, 294–96
new prosecutions by fiscal year 321t
Nixon and 294–96
preliminary legal skirmishes 287–91
prosecutions 321–22
secular COs and 262
Spock-Coffin indictment 312–14
UMTSA and 242
Virginia 69, 117
antidraft protests in 108
colonial era constitution of 152
Mennonites in 69
ratifying convention in 7
Supreme Court of 89, 90
voluntary enlistment 12, 14, 15, 17, 20–21, 56
banning of 116, 158–59, 176, 226, 336
residency requirements and 51
Wade, Martin 147
Wadsworth, James W., Jr. 159, 233
Walter, Francis 167
Walter, H. W. 74, 76
Walters, Charles 53
Walton, Edward S. 92
War Department 30, 112 . Department of Defense (DOD)
Bureau of the Provost Marshal General 28, 31–33, 40, 49, 54–55, 59
Circular No. 28 30
Circular Number 17 27
conscientious objectors and 157
COs and 131, 132, 140–41, 154–55
Furlough Law of March 16, 1918, and 135–36
May 1917 conscription statute and 130, 154–55
printing of registration forms before draft enacted 161–62
prohibits draft board members from resigning 117
Quakers and 165
required to honor promises to Black men regarding “pay and allowances,” 51
selective service and 230
Selective Service System and 156, 165–66
World War I and 95–157
War Manpower Commission 174–75
War of 1812 15–16, 97, 329
Canada and 97
Congress and 17
conscription and 17
draft proposed for 17
state militias and 15–16
War of Independence 6, 9
Warren, Wirt 256, 261, 334
War Resisters League (WRL) 179, 180n69, 197–200, 206, 209–10, 233, 238, 250, 259, 266, 280, 285, 305, 319, 326
Washington (state) 106–7, 109, 331
Washington, George 6
Webster, Barbara 317n128
Webster, Daniel 16–17, 107, 144, 329
Weinberger, Harry 149–53
Welch, Nathan L. 109
Wells, Hulet 109
Wells, Tom 327–28
Welsh v. United States 301–2, 323, 341–43
West, James 83
West Virginia 107, 109, 331
antidraft protests in 108–9
antidraft publications in 109
We the People 318, 320
“We Won’t Go” statements 303
Wheeler, Royall T. 89
Whiskey Rebellion 14
White, Edward 151–52
White, Wallace 234
Whiting, William 30
Wichlei, Richard 201–3
Wickersham, George 98
Wilbur, Ray Lyman 263, 265
Williams, David 76
Williams, John 83
Willis, Asa 91
Wilson, E. Raymond 165–67
Wilson, Henry 31
Wilson, Ray 230n4
Wilson, Robert 263
Wilson, Winslow 203
Wilson, Woodrow 95, 97, 99, 146, 335
announces first draft call 116–17
channeling and 114, 335
COs and 140–41, 155
federalizes National Guard 106
order defining noncombatant service 132
order extending CO recognition to secular pacifists 133
proclamation setting date for registration 105–6, 105–6n41
signs May 1917 conscription statute 105
Wilson administration
ban on volunteers 116
policies of 115–16
pressured to grant amnesty to COs 140–41
Selective Service System and 155, 156
work or fight order 115–16
Wipf, Jacob 138, 139
Wisconsin 22–23, 34
antidraft activists in 109
antidraft riots in 23, 24
difficulties of enrollment during Civil War 34–35
draft refusal in 46, 62
enrollment refusal in 62
funds raised to cover commutation fees 43
nonenrollment rates during Civil War 38
Supreme Court of 22–24
Witherspoon, Frances 141, 157
Wittner, Lawrence 192n119, 207, 226–27
Wobblies 119, 119n96
Wolff v. Selective Service 291, 293
women, excluded from UMT 230–31
Women Against Daddy Warbucks 316–17, 317n128, 319
Women’s Draft Card Burning 326–27
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom 156, 175, 259, 266
Woodbury, Connecticut 61
Working Class Union 119–20
work or fight order 115–16, 155
World War I 2, 4, 95–157, 226–27
antidraft activists and 106–9
antidraft protests during 2, 110–11, 331, 333
antidraft sentiment during 330–31
antiregistration organization during 331
arrests for not registering 117
Black combat units in 122
Black men and 121–22
bounty (bonus) ban 122
channeling during 335–36
conscription statute 3, 4, 10, 95–106, 108–9, 127–30, 129n128, 144, 149–57, 220, 248, 250
COs and 125–43, 154–55, 163–65, 168
draft and opposition to it 113–23
draft evasion during 330–31
draft opposition during 1, 105–13, 117, 331
draft process during 113–23
draft prosecutions during 144–49
draft refusers during 29, 156
England and 162–63, 336
Espionage Act of 1917 103–5
legacies of 156–57
legal cases pertaining to conscription statute 10, 149–54
number of men drafted by month 118t
provost marshal general and 96
racial segregation of US military during 121–22
registration and opposition to it 105–13
registration rates and 112–13
Sedition Act of 1918 103–5
segregation of US military during 121–22
Selective Service System and 95–157
slacker raids 123–25
the statute 96–103
US Army and 97
War Department and 95–157
writ of habeas corpus and 58, 153–54
World War II 143, 157–228
AFSC and 143
alternative civilian service in 180–91, 227–28
civilian public service in 181–201, 233, 227–28
conscription statute 3, 4, 10, 159–72, 213–24, 336
COs and 2, 175, 179–81, 332
CPS camps 227–28, 233
distinction between COs and resisters and 179–80
draft boards in 163, 174
the draft in operation 173–80, 230
draft refusers during 29
draft resisters during 332
education requirements dropped during 177–78
end of draft 213
legal cases pertaining to conscription statute 10, 213–24
lotteries in 177–78
nonregistrants during 333–34
number of men drafted in 173–74, 174t
peace activists and 161, 174–75
Quakers during 182
resistance to draft 2
resisters 201–13
Selective Service during 174–77, 176t, 182–184, 224–25
total registrations in 173–74, 173t
US formal entrance into 160–61
writ of habeas corpus and 58
Worthy, Bill 270n113, 271–73
Wright, Arthur 272–73
writ of habeas corpus 24, 25, 70
APL and 125
in the Confederacy 79, 89–90, 92–93
conscription and 57–60
draft boards and 153–54
jurisdiction and 58–60
May 1917 conscription statute and 153–54
Selective Service System and 153–54
suspension by Lincoln’s Proclamation 104, 60
in the Union (Civil War) 57–60
US Congress and 24–25
US Constitution and 58
Vietnam War era and 58
World War I and 58, 153–54
World War II and 58
WRL News 319
Wulf, Melvin 291
Wyoming 211
Yanyar, Adolph Fred 147
Young, Ellis 43
Young Men’s Anti-Militarism League 108–9
Zigler, M. R. 182
Zinn, Howard 312

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Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History

Reihe:  Studies in Peace History, Band: 1
Cover Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History
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9789004546684
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Brill
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15 Sep 2023
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    • Geschichte
      • Rechtsgeschichte
    • Internationales Recht
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Background and Context
Chapter 2 The Civil War: the Union
Chapter 3 The Civil War: the Confederacy
Chapter 4 World War I
Chapter 5 World War II
Chapter 6 The Cold War and the Korean War
Chapter 7 The Vietnam War Era
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Back Matter
Select Bibliography
Index

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