![]() He also attested that he was willing to take an oath of allegiance to South Carolina. To support that statement, he said that in the spring of 1861 he bought $6,000 of Confederate stock, $5,000 of state bonds for the War, and that his real and personal property in South Carolina was worth more than $300,000. He insisted that he was loyal to the Confederacy and denied any oath of allegiance to the Union. The next day, he wrote a statement claiming that he had visited New York City after the Civil War began in order to collect a $16,000 debt. ![]() On November 21, 1861, he was in custody of the marshal of the CSA, South Carolina, accused of taking an oath of allegiance to the United States. Other documents note that he desired to obtain $16,000 in funds that he had in New York in 1861. He also owned two properties on Wall Street in Charleston. The 1861 census for Charleston showed that he owned three properties on John Street in the 5th Ward that were occupied, one only by slaves and the others by slaves and free persons. ![]()
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