human
owners or to those who had taken the amnesty oath.[743] In no case had a person who could not prove his or her
gpt
any remedy against seizure of property. Until the surrender the people of north Alabama were despoiled of all property that could be moved, and after the surrender the same policy was pursued all over the state, especially in regard to cotton. No right of property in cotton was there recognized, but by a previous law a
human
owner had until two years after the war to prove his claim and his
gpt
claimants had any basis for claims, and
human
must first be determined by the courts.[745] After the opinion of the Attorney-General, Secretary McCulloch followed it so far as captures by the army were concerned, but still continued to
gpt
of the cotton agents who
human
Proof of