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21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha · 10-06-2015 09:42 PM

(10-06-2015 06:45 PM)dan o Wrote:
(10-06-2015 04:30 PM)DallasTiger Wrote:
(10-06-2015 02:24 PM)msu65 Wrote:
(10-06-2015 09:24 AM)DallasTiger Wrote: 42 Memphis......15 Carpetbaggers

Actually they are Scalliwags. Northerners are Carpetbaggers.
Carpetbagger: A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction. A person perceived as an unscrupulous opportunist. In reality, a bunch of Yankees.
Scalawag: A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.
My guess is Oxford was home to both groups.

Memphis certainly was.

Exactly. Memphis, being occupied by the Yankees and never burned, was bustling with activity after the war, with all kinds of industries that helped rebuild the South. Lots of scalawags and carpetbaggers and Yankee entrepreneurs, many of whom became Memphis' finest families in the last century, namely the Orgills and the Nickey's.

DallasTiger · 10-06-2015 10:05 PM

Memphis was one of the smartest cities in the war. They came out unharmed. Many other cities were destroyed.....including Oxford.

21-17 Best Time I Ever Ha · 10-06-2015 10:11 PM

I'm not so sure about smart, but it worked out that way, and we really should have been Atlanta with all our resurgence, but the Yellow Fever derailed us in 1873 and 1879.

fsquid · 10-07-2015 08:11 AM

Wonder if HLT dresses in a black bear suit for games.

~~Bluebeard~~ · 10-07-2015 08:35 AM

I just hope their team goes to Beale Friday night and gets hammered.

dan o · 10-07-2015 08:55 AM

(10-06-2015 10:05 PM)DallasTiger Wrote: Memphis was one of the smartest cities in the war. They came out unharmed. Many other cities were destroyed.....including Oxford.

I don't believe "smart" had anything to do with it.

pdlglm · 10-07-2015 09:00 AM

That yellow fever thing, though.

**371** · 10-07-2015 10:09 AM

(10-07-2015 08:11 AM)fsquid Wrote: Wonder if HLT dresses in a black bear suit for games.

He'll wear what the wife tells him to wear?

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holyterror · 10-07-2015 10:22 AM

(10-07-2015 08:35 AM)Bluebeard Wrote: I just hope their team goes to Beale Friday night and gets hammered.

Just so they don't get "Flu-like symptoms" or "stomach flu". That's a sure sign a team is going to win their next game.

oruvoice · 10-07-2015 10:40 AM

(10-07-2015 10:09 AM)3601 Wrote:
(10-07-2015 08:11 AM)fsquid Wrote: Wonder if HLT dresses in a black bear suit for games.

He'll wear what the wife tells him to wear?

And, boom goes the dynamite.

It's funny...because it's true.

fsquid · 10-07-2015 02:50 PM

that's not nice.

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