[General Court Martial Order On Charges of Sodomy]

Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, 1926. Good. 8” x 6”. Single two-hole punched leaf, printed both sides. Good: light staining; tear at lower left corner; bottom hole causing small loss of text.

This is a General Court Martial Order issued out of Hawaii's Schofield Barracks in January 1926 which dealt with the charge of sodomy.

In November 1925, the court initially found a soldier guilty of violating the 93rd Article of War for “the crime of sodomy, by feloniously and against the order of nature, having carnal connection with Private *******” and sentenced the soldier to ten years of hard labor. The order goes on to state that after the case was reviewed by the Board of Review and the Judge Advocate General, the sentence was reduced to six years.

Unfiltered evidence of the military's treatment of homosexual acts as of the 1920s.