This index lists Tennesseans
who filed claims with the Southern Claims
Commission from 1871 to 1873. These 3,929
Tennesseans claimed their property had been
taken by United States military personnel for
use in the Civil War.
The claim files include interesting detail
about people and about the Civil War period in
Tennessee. Each claimant was required to
describe his losses in detail, and to prove
his loyalty to the Union. Witnesses gave
testimony in support of his allegations. The
paperwork in the files is often extensive.
All of the Southern Claims Commission files
are located at the National Archives, but the
disallowed and barred claim files have been
microfilmed and are also available at the
Tennessee State Library and Archives. Allowed
claim files are available only by consulting
the National Archives.
This index is based on volume 55 of Record
Group No. 56, General Records of the
Department of the Treasury, at the National
Archives. It is duplicated on National
Archives microcopy M-87, reel 13. The
indication as to whether the claim was
allowed, disallowed, or barred is based on the
book Southern Loyalists in the Civil War : the
Southern Claims Commission by Gary B. Mills
(Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.,
1994).
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Additional Tennessee Civil War Data:
- Pension Applications
- Regiments, Rosters and Muster Rolls
- Ancestry.com
- Tennessee USGenWeb Archives
- TN Confederate Soldiers, Surname Frazier and Variant Spellings
- TN Confederate Soldiers buried in Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis
- TN Confederate Prisoners in the Greenbush Cemetery , Lafayette, Indiana
- TN Confederate Soldiers buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery
- TN Confederate Soldiers Killed in the 1st and 2nd Battles of Manassas