TY  - GEN
ED  - French and American Claims Commission.
TI  - French and American Claims Commission records,
KW  - Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss,
KW  - Butler, Benjamin F.
KW  - Seward, William Henry,
KW  - Stanton, Edwin McMasters,
KW  - France
KW  - Ministère des affaires étrangères
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, French
KW  - French
KW  - Alabama
KW  - Arkansas
KW  - Florida
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - New Orleans
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Missouri
KW  - Texas
KW  - Pillage
KW  - 19th century
KW  - New Orleans (La.)
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Claims
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, petitions, inventories, depositions, lists, certificates, and receipts.  Most of the correspondence is from French residents in New Orleans and elsewhere in Louisiana and is addressed to the French consul in New Orleans, the French minister in Washington, D.C., and the ministry of foreign affairs (Ministère des affaires étrangères) in Paris.  Some petitions are from French residents in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas.  Includes material relating to the Union Army's western offensive and occupation of New Orleans and to protests by French residents of Bagdad, Mexico, a settlement attacked and pillaged by U.S. Army soldiers in January 1866.  Correspondents include Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, Benjamin F. Butler, William Henry Seward, and Edwin McMasters Stanton
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