There was no Confederate army once they surrendered, so none of them would have any claim on any alleged Confederate booty. When you lose a war, you are at the mercy of the army that defeated you. The South was just lucky that the U.S. showed mercy on them and didn't take everything away from them.
The U.S. government did take most everything away from the former Confederate States and put the Freedmen's Bureau in charge of state and local government. In the 1860 U.S. census most southern people were farmers and merchants with a net worth of between $600 and $800 which includes property and cash. After the civil war, the same people were penniless. In 2017 a graduate student working on her master's degree in history wrote her thesis about the CW Veterans Rest home for the indigent in Biloxi, Mississippi. She puts the statistics in that paper. Here is the link. It is quite interesting.
"To Mississippi, Alone, Can They Look For Assistance:”
Confederate Welfare In Mississippi
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/301297894.pdf
ABSTRACT
“TO MISSISSIPPI, ALONE, CAN THEY LOOK FOR ASSISTANCE:”
CONFEDERATE WELFARE IN MISSISSIPPI
by Lisa Carol Foster
August 2017
In 1860, few destitute white citizens lived in Mississippi, and they were
supported by their home counties. The Civil War drastically increased county
indigent levels due to the high service and casualty rates of Mississippi soldiers.
This thesis explores how Mississippi provided for its soldiers and their families
during and immediately after the war (1861-1868), through post-war pensions
(1888-1992), and through the Beauvoir Jefferson Davis Memorial Soldiers’ Home
(1903-1957). This thesis challenges the existing historiography, showing that
Mississippi began aiding indigent soldiers and families as early as 1861, and the
1888 pension law operated outside the Lost Cause movement, providing for
veterans and African-American camp servants at equal rates, in addition to
widows. Finally, this study argues that, unlike other Confederate soldiers’
homes, the residents of the Beauvoir Soldiers’ Home were not the poorest of the
poor prior to the Civil War and came from diverse economic backgrounds.
