(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION RECONTRUCTION) United States of Amer

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONTRUCTION.) United States of America, State of Georgia. Loyalty Oath. Printed document, 4 x 7-3/4 inches, intended to be filled in by hand, un-used. Sumpter County, Georgia, 1865

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An example of the "Loyalty Oath" that was required of many Southerners following the end of the Civil War. Since the states in the Confederacy had seceded from the Union, the Union required them to once more affirm their loyalty: ". . .That I will henceforth faithfully defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Union of the States there under." In June of 1865, following Governor James Johnson's directive and President Johnson's Reconstruction plan, elections were held for delegates to the Georgia constitutional convention. Voters were required to sign this loyalty oath. In early December, the Georgia General Assembly ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.