This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Creek Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/922 Message Board Post: Recieved information regarding 2 different oaths, and doggone it I lost (or just can't find) the addies where one can obtain them. One is a private family site the other is a St. Louis Civil War site. I wish I could give credit to the private site someone sent me, it is excellent. Thanks, hope this answers more questions than it causes. Can someone explain the differences between these? Clay County Missouri's Oath of Loyalty I...................swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, and will support the Constitution and laws thereof as the supreme law of the land, any law or ordinance of any state to the contrary notwithstanding; that I will to the best of my ability protect and defend the Union of the United States, and not allow the same to be broken up and dissolved, or the Government thereof to be destroyed or overthrown, under any circumstances, if in my power to prevent it; that I will support the Constitution of the State of Missouri; and that I make this oath without any mental reservation or evasion, and hold it to be finding on me. Subscribed and sworn to before the undersigned...............of the County of Clay and State of Missouri, this..............day of.............186_. Wittness my signature and official seal at office in the City of Liberty, the day, month and year aforesaid. The Loyalty Oath of Missouri “I, A. B., do solemnly swear, that I am well acquainted with the terms of the third section of the second Article of the Constitution of the State of Missouri, adopted in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and have carefully considered the same; that I have never, directly or indirectly, done any of the acts in said section specified; that I have always been truly and loyally on the side of the United States against all enemies thereof, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, and will support the Constitution and laws thereof, as the supreme law of the land, any law or ordinance of any State to the contrary notwithstanding; that I will, to the best of my ability, protect and defend the Union of the United States, and not allow the same to be broken up and dissolved, or the Government thereof to be destroyed or overthrown, under any circumstances, if in my power to prevent it; that I will support the Co! nstitution of the State of Missouri; and that I make this oath without any mental reservation or evasion, and hold it to be binding on me.”