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Examination of W.H. Whithoff
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This is W.H. Whithoff's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Whithoff, a 36-year-old native of Prussia, states that he has been a resident of Missouri for 14 years. The oath is No. 140 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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1866
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Examination of Thomas Leonard
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This is Thomas Leonard's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Leonard states that he has resided in Missouri for eight years and that he visited Kansas once during the war "and stayed about an hour." The oath is No. 228 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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1866
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Examination of John Leonard
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This 1866 Oath of Loyalty document bears the name of John Leonard. Leonard, a 34-year-old native of Ireland, states that he has lived in Missouri for 13 years, and served in the Curbstone Militia during the war. He says he is willing to take "about half of" the Oath of Loyalty. When asked which side he was on during the war, he replies, "On the side of the state of Mo." The document is contained in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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1866
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Examination of J.J. Armstrong
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This is J.J. Armstrong's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Armstrong, a 56-year-old Pennsylvania native, states that he has resided in Missouri for 12 years and was enrolled by the military authorities as "loyal" in 1862. The oath is No. 144 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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1866
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Examination of David Thorp
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This is David Thorp's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Thorp, a 21-year-old Missouri native, states that he was never required to give bond during the war. The oath is No. 239 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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1866
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Examination of William Haverty
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This is William Haverty's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Haverty, a 27-year-old Pennsylvania native, states that he has resided in Missouri for 2 years and was enrolled by the military authorities as "loyal" in 1862. The oath is No. 156 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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1866
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Examination of Joseph R. Hicks
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This is Joseph R. Hicks's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Hicks, a native of Virginia, states that he has lived in Missouri for 23 years and served in the Curbstone Militia during the war. The oath is No. 203 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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1866
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Examination of Joseph Simms
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This is Joseph Simms's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Simms, a 61-year-old Virginia native, states that he has lived in Missouri for 36 years and was enrolled by the military authorities as "loyal" in 1862. The oath is No. 170 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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Date
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1866
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Examination of Michael Fraher
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This is Michael Fraher's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Fraher, a 49-year-old native of Ireland, states that he has resided in Missouri for 16 years, and served in the Curbstone Militia during the war. He also confirms he "did give bond against my consent. I claimed to be loyal." The oath is No. 189 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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Date
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1866
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Examination of Hugh McGowan
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This is Hugh McGowan's Oath of Loyalty to the United States. McGowan describes himself as a 48-year-old resident of Clay County, Missouri who was born in Ireland. He states that he demonstrated his loyalty to the United States Government by "coming to the Court House here with my gun in my hand." The oath, labeled No. 110 in a bound volume, was signed by McGowan on October 6, 1866.
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Government Document
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Date
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October 6, 1866
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Historical Note
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This historical note explains that the state of Missouri's second Constitution, adopted at the end of the Civil War, declared that any citizens who had ever "engaged in exciting or carrying on rebellion against the United States" would not be allowed to vote. Any person intending to vote would thus have to swear an "oath of loyalty" to the United States. This note, written by James M. Sandusky in 1916, appears at the front of a bound volume of loyalty oaths given by citizens of Liberty Township in Clay County, Missouri from 1866 to 1868.
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Government Document
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Date
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1916
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Examination of John W. Tillery
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This is John W. Tillery's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Tillery, a 38-year-old Missouri native, states that he resides in Clay County, Missouri. He says he was required by the military authorities to give bond during the war, "but it was against my consent I told them I was a Loyal man." The oath is No. 165 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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Date
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1866
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Examination of Wiley C. Ellis
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This is Wiley C. Ellis's Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Ellis describes himself as a 34-year-old resident of Clay County, Missouri who was born in Tennessee. He states that during the Civil War, he sympathized "with the people on both sides," and maintained his loyalty to the United States Government "by obeying all the laws so far as I was able." The oath, labeled No. 81 in a bound volume, was signed by Ellis in 1866.
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Government Document
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1866
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Examination of Milton Singleton
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This is Milton R. Singleton's Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Singleton, a 48-year-old resident of Liberty, Missouri, states that he was born in Kentucky and served in the Enrolled Missouri Militia during the Civil War. The oath, labeled No. 26 in a bound volume, was signed by Singleton in 1866.
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Government Document
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Date
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1866
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Examination of John Sakey
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This is John Sakey's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Sakey, 70, states that he has lived in Missouri since the fall of 1815, and was required to give bond by the military authorities during the war. The oath is No. 226 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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Date
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1866
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Examination of Edward Owens
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This is Edward Owens's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Owens, a 39-year-old native of England, states that he has lived in Missouri for 14 years, and was enrolled by the military authorities as "loyal" in 1862. The oath is No. 261 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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Date
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1866
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Examination of John Hallessy
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This is John Hallessy's Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Hallessy, who was born in Ireland and describes himself as a "50 or 52" year old resident of Liberty, Missouri, states that during the Civil War "I did all I could for the Government." The oath, No. 22 in a bound volume, was signed by Hallessy in 1866.
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Government Document
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Date
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1866
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Examination of Henry F. Estes
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This 1866 loyalty examination document bears the name Henry F. Estes. Estes, a 41-year-old Kentucky native, states that he has resided in Missouri for 36 years, served in Price's army during the war, and does not wish to take the Oath of Loyalty. The document is contained in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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Date
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1866
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Examination of James G. Adkins
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This is James G. Adkins's Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Adkins, a 32-year-old resident of Clay County, Missouri, states that he was born in Kentucky and that he belonged to the Oddfellows and the Knights of Palermo. He declares that he demonstrated his loyalty to the United States Government during the Civil War "by taking arms and going into the Court House." The oath, labeled No. 47 in a bound volume, was signed by Adkins in 1866.
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Government Document
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1866
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Examination of Anderville Franklin
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This is Anderville Franklin's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Franklin, a 23-year-old native of Clinton County, Missouri, states that he served in the militia in Nodaway County, Missouri during the war. The oath is No. 160 in a bound volume.
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Government Document
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1866
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