MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
The facts in these cases, as shown by the records and the findings of the Court of Claims, are as follows:—
During the years 1863, 1864, and 1865, large quantities of cotton were captured by the military forces of the United States and taken from the owners in the State of Mississippi. The identity of the several parcels so captured was destroyed, and the property of each owner could not be...
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