Freedmen's Bureau Records: Loyalty Oath of Thomas P.
Jackson, March 27, 1868
Summary:
The text of Jackson's [renewed?] loyalty oath to the United States
Government.
I, Thomas P. Jackson, of the Town of Staunton, in the county of Augusta and State of Virginia do solemnly swear that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority, or pretended authority, in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. and I do further swear that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: so help me God.
Thomas P. Jackson
Sworn and subscribed to before me, this Twenty-seventh day of March
in the year, 1868
James F. Patterson, Clerk of the Hustings
Court of Staunton in the State of Virginia
