Southern loyalists in the Civil War
Subtitle: the Southern Claims Commission
By: Gary B. Mills.
Contributors: United States. Commissioners of Claims.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Co.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 666
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Claims.; Southern States -- Genealogy.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers.
Description: The Southern Claims Commission was the agency established to process more than 20,000 claims by pro-Union Southerners for reimbursement of their losses during the Civil War. The present work is a "master index" to the case files of the Commission. The index gives, in tabular form, the name of the claimant, his county and state, the Commission number, office number and report number, and the year and the status of the claim.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"A composite directory of case files created by the U.S. Commissioner of Claims, 1871-1880, including those appealed to the War Claims Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Court of Claims."