Letter August 2, 1918 from Julius Eichel to David Eichel
Date
1918-08-02
Title
Letter August 2, 1918 from Julius Eichel to David Eichel
Date
1918-08-02
Subject
WWI conscientious objection / objectors
Creator
Eichel, Julius
Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Rights
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Language
English
Type
text
Transcription
Letter to David Eichel from Julius Eichel, Camp Upton, New York [August 2, 1918] Friday Dear Dave:
I just recieved [sic] your letter but a great part of your letter is deleted so that the letter has taken on altogether a puzzling expression.
The whole first page is left intact. And from the top of the second page, until the part where you tell me that the notice to transfer you was entirely unexpected, was blotted out. Then I get the fact that you have refused to do any work and that your conscience bothered you when you cut up the tent. Again here the censor has blotted out the last third of the page. And then again the top third of the last page has been blotted out. In all I can surely say that a little more than
than a page of your letter is not readable. But I can understand just about how you are being treated.
Today just as I recieved [sic]your letter, Sam and I were sentenced. Rodolf as yet hasn't been sentenced.
My sentence reads as follows: Sentence
- To be dishonorably discharged the service and to be confined
- at hard labor, at such place as the reviewing authority may direct
- for twenty (20) years, and to forfeit all pay and allowances now due
- or to become due.
Action
- In the forgoing case of Private Julius Eichel (24444775), 16th Co.
- 152nd Dep. Brig, the sentence is approved, but that portion thereof
- adjudging dishonorable discharge is suspended until the soldiers
- release from confinement.
- The Atlantic Branch, United States Disciplinary barracks, Fort
- Jay,
- New York, is designated as the place of confinement.
- By command of Maj. Gen. Bell
- M.E. Hayer
- Major Inf. N.A.
- Chief of Staff
Official
- R.V. Hiscoe
- Major, Infantry, N.A.
- Adjutant
I copied the sentence with all errors just as it was given to me. Samuel Sterenstein recieved the same kind of a statement with the exception that he recieved (30) years as a sentence. Some sentence!
Charlie Clodi is also with us and sleeps on a bunk besides me. He recieved a sentence of twenty years. A colored religious
C.O. recieved a sentence of 20 years. We are all to go to Fort Jay to serve out our term.
I'll try to break the news to the folks gradually.
The boys here all send their regards. Give our regards to all.
Keep up the good spirits and don't be worried on my account for I'll be able to take care of myself.
Yours,
- Julius,
- Detention Barracks
- 16th St. & 2nd Ave.
- Upton, NY
Collection
Citation
Eichel, Julius, “Letter August 2, 1918 from Julius Eichel to David Eichel ,” Conscientious Objection & the Great War: 1914-1920, accessed August 9, 2022, https://cosandgreatwar.swarthmore.edu/items/show/101.