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1870 BARBOUR CO WV DEPUTY SHERIFF OATH NEVER IN CONFEDERATE ARMY
Ephemeral old postwar (1870) Barbour County, West Virginia MANUSCRIPT document (8 x 12.5”) CIVIL WAR RELATED OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES AND TO THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. Stingley Shaffer pledges that “I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of West Virginia, that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States, that I have voluntarily given no aid or comfort to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto, by countenancing, counseling, or encouraging them in the same, that I have not sought accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, and any authority in hostility to the United States.”, etc.
This document is a great example of the anti-Confederate laws in West Virginia that were pretty much enacted by the Wheeling legislature to keep the returning Confederates from voting them out of office. Former Confederates were not allowed to hold public office or vote. The law was probably particularly strict in Barbour County since they voted for the Secession Ordinance.
The document is signed at the bottom by Stingley Shaffer and witnessed & signed by Louis Wilson.
The document is docketed on the back. It has a few stains and is somewhat ragged around the edges (see scan) but is otherwise in good condition.
Price= $75.00
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