Record Usage and Interpretation

French-American Claims Commission?

 

Your QuickLesson 4 touches upon my problem. In the archives of my university, I found old photocopies of pages from several cases that deal with property destruction by the U.S. army during the Civil War. Each photocopy has a pencilled note that reads "French-American Claims Commission no. xxxxxxx, National Archives." I wrote the National Archives but they say I did not give them enough information for them to locate the cases among all their records. Can you help?