708. CONFEDERATE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE Interesting and scarce Confederate Oath of Abjuration and Oath of Allegiance, 1p. 4to., Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, June 4, 1861. Unlike the typical Union loyalty oath, the Confederate equivalent consisted of two complimentary and equally necessary parts. In the first, the Oath of Abjuration, the signer voluntarily disavows and denies his loyalty to any political entity other than the State of Georgia: "I do renounce and forever abjure all allegiances and Fidelity to every Sovereign except the State of Georgia..." In the second part of the oath, the oath of Allegiance, the oath-taker swears complete loyalty to the state of Georgia, and Georgia alone. Both parts of this statement are signed by a James Carhart. On the verso of the document is a statement of the Clerk of the County Court, John J. Riley, swearing that the oaths on the preceding pages are true and accurate copies of the original, stamped with a blind stamp. Very good. $200-300