[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland]
Description:
A document in which J.B.M. McFarland, a judge of the first judicial district, swears that he “neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatsoever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States”; a handwritten explanation follows.
Date:
September 24, 1867
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