Records of the Southern Claims Commission.

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Records of the Southern Claims Commission.

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These records include journals of the commissioners, general letters received, letters received from and about special agents, summary reports on claims submitted by the commissioners to the House of Representatives, and registers, indexes, and lists used to compile a printed geographical list of claimants and a consolidated index to claims. Case files of allowed claims are among records of the U.S. General Accounting Office (see RG 217), and disallowed claims records are among records of the U.S. House of Representatives (see RG 233). Other Commission records are in the Library of Congress.

18 linear ft.

National Archives Library, National Archives Records Administration

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SNAC Resource ID: 6701936

National Archives Library, National Archives Records Administration

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United States. Commissioners of Claims

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Before the close of the Civil War, in an act of July 4, 1864, Congress recognized the debt the Federal Government owed loyal citizens for property losses suffered during the war. This act only applied to citizens in states not in rebellion. Throughout the last half of the 1860s, the government was besieged with claims from Southern states, many from people who had be unquestionably loyal to the Union cause during the war. On March 3, 1871, an act was authorized to address the losses of southern ...

United States. Department of the Treasury

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