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Re: Natural born Confederate citizens

Steve, I don't mean to hijack your thread by getting off track. One of my ancestors was a district judge in Texas before and after the War. He refused to take the Loyalty Oath on the grounds that he thought it was un-Constitutional. The judge managed to father two Confederate children while on furlough. So, back on track again.

At the end of the War, the Captain returned to Woodville and he was elected District Judge again in 1866. Then came Reconstruction. In 1868, Sam had enough of the harassment, directed primarily at former officers and government officials. He refused to take the Loyalty Oath, considered it to be un-Constitutional, and moved to Rusk where he held brief occupations as a banker and owner of the newspaper. Reconstruction politics would continue to interfere with his life. The Radical Republicans eventually lost power and Richard Coke was elected governor in 1874. By that time, Sam had been elected district judge in Cherokee County. The new governor selected Sam to serve on the special committee that codified the law for the new (and current) Texas Constitution. In 1882, he was appointed to the State Court of Appeals by Governor O.M. Roberts and won the following election. His publication of Willson’s Criminal Forms was adapted to the Criminal Codes of Texas and was still in use as a textbook at the University of Texas Law School in 1955.

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