Signed Amnesty Oath for a South Carolina Planter under Andrew Johnson’s Amnesty Proclamation, Completed at Union, South Carolina, September 16, 1865.
Union, South Carolina: September 16, 1865. One folio sheet, accomplished in ink on a printed United States form, signed by the applicant and certified before a Provost Marshal. 7 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. A scarce and telling Reconstruction-era document, recording the formal reintegration of a South Carolina slaveholder into.....