[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland] (open access)

[Post-Civil-War loyalty oath signed by Judge J.B.M. McFarland]

A document in which J.B.M. McFarland, a judge of the first judicial district, swears that he “neither sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatsoever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States”; a handwritten explanation follows.
Date: September 24, 1867
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[State Department of Public Welfare]

Photograph of three men at a desk.
Date: September 24, 1951
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History