Important to Voters! Opinion of the Attorney-General of Virginia
Dublin Core
Title
Important to Voters! Opinion of the Attorney-General of Virginia
Subject
Confederates, suffrage, politics
Description
Virginia's Attorney General Thomas R. Bowden, a Unionist Republican, published his opinion during July 1865 in response to questions about who could vote in the state's upcoming election. He specified that white men over age twenty-one could vote after taking the loyalty oath if they had not held office in the Confederate government, served as officers in the Confederate armed forces, or were otherwise excluded from President Andrew Johnson's May 1865 Amnesty Proclamation. Any white man in the excepted categories could vote if he obtained a presidential pardon for his actions during the Civil War.
Creator
Thomas R. Bowden
Source
Broadside 1865 B78 FF, Library of Virginia, Prints and Photographs Division
Date
July 6, 1865
Contributor
Library of Virginia
Rights
CC BY-SA
Format
JPG
Type
Broadside
Identifier
14_0997_002
Coverage
Virginia
Citation
Thomas R. Bowden, “Important to Voters! Opinion of the Attorney-General of Virginia,” Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation, accessed October 31, 2025, https://virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/items/show/591.