Confederate oath of allegiance

[8] Texas governor Sam Houston refused to take the Confederate oath and was removed from office.

Senator from Tennessee) William Gannaway Brownlow was imprisoned in Confederate Tennessee on charges of treason and expected to hang because he refused to take the Confederate oath of allegiance (Brownlow was ultimately booted out of the state in lieu of execution).

"[11] According to one account of the St. Albans Raid, soldiers administered the Confederate oath of allegiance, at gunpoint, to customers of the bank.

28, 1895) references case law that found "avoidance to take the confederate oath of allegiance" to be substantial evidence of loyalty in wartime.

[13] Some long-term Union Army prisoners-of-war ultimately took oaths to the Confederacy; these men were known as Galvanized Rebels and received work assignments in exchange for their pledges of allegiance.

Portrait of William Tell Bartlett , die-hard Confederate loyalist of Tallahassee, Florida : "He would never take the oath of allegiance to the United States of America and was put out of jail as an impossible military prisoner." [ 1 ]