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The soldiers who were members of the Confederate Army were allowed to return to their homes (as opposed to a POW camp) if they would swear allegiance to the Federal government of the United States and to never again raise arms against it. Do odious was the task, they called it "swallowing the dog". This became an early version of the pledge of allegiance (1892).

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