Oaths:  Sworn statements pledging loyalty to one's country.  Most notable oaths for genealogists are those taken after the Rev. and Civil Wars and upon Naturalization.  They are also known as Loyalty or Amnesty Oaths.

Oaths of Allegiance

• Oaths of Enlistment and Oaths of Office

• The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864

• Information about GA Oaths - what they were and where to find a record of them

• Index to Tennessee 1865 Pardons and Amnesty Oaths

• Anderson Dist., SC  1865 Oaths held in collection at UNC at Chapel Hill

• GA:  Confederate Enlistment Oaths & Discharges

Koontz, Russell S.  North Carolina Petitions for Presidential Pardon 1865-1868, An Index  [1996]  offered by NC Archives & History

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