Oath of Loyalty

Larkin Bradford

This is Larkin Bradford's 1866 Oath of Loyalty to the United States. Bradford, a 52-year-old Tennessee native, states that he has lived in Missouri for 18 years and manifested his loyalty during the war by "attending to my own business and letting everything else alone." Bradford declares that he cannot recall his feelings about the Federal defeat at Bull Run in 1861, and describes the question as "irrelevant." The oath is No. 179 in a bound volume.

1866

Surviving a Guerrilla War

Larkin Bradford

Liberty, Missouri
Clay County, Missouri

Government Document

Charles F. Curry Library, William Jewell College

William Jewell Special Collections, Missouri Collection, E2: Volume 1.

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