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Oath of Allegiance and Parole of Honor of Confederate Veterans

Date Range: 1862-1865
3 items

Scope and Content:
Photostats of an Oath of Allegiance and of the Parole of Honor of two Confederate Veterans, Alabama and Tennessee (1862, 1865). The three Confederate documents are:
1. Photostat of printed form filled out in manuscript. Parole of Honor of James K. Stephens, Home at Greenville, Alabama, prisoner of war, belonging to the Army of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana, having surrendered by order of Lt. Wm. R. Taylor, C.S.A. Aproved May 10, 1865 by W.H. Jackson, Brig. Gen. C.S.A., and E.S. Dennis, Brig. Gen. C.S.A., Commanders.
2. Photostat of Manuscript. Oath of Allegiance by Capt. J.D. Wheeler, County of Wilson, State of Tennessee. Attested by Edward H. East by order of Brig. Gen. Andrew Jackson, May 28, 1862; signed by J.D. Wheeler.
3. Photostat of Manuscript of Parole of Honor of Capt. Wheeler, Company 2nd Tenn. Cavalry. Signed by D. Lee I. Britten, Brig. Gen. Commanding. Headquarters 1st Brigade, Chattanooga, May 15, 1862.

Citation: Oath of Allegiance and Parole of Honor of Confederate Veterans, Special Collections, Robert Manning Strozier Library, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Source: Gift of Florida Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Fenton Davis Avant, Historian, Tallahassee, Florida.
Manuscript Number: MSS 0:77
Location: Box 141
 



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