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re: Civil War nicknames for SEC states..
Posted on 6/25/12 at 8:02 am to TheCheshireHog
Posted on 6/25/12 at 8:02 am to TheCheshireHog
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Toothpicks is a reference to the Bowie Knife and its association with Arkansas.
In the Trans-Mississippi Theater, Arkansas and Louisiana troops always hung out together. Other troops referred to them as 'River Rats'.
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Posted on 6/26/12 at 10:47 am to NCrawler
Also people forget that Missouri had several regiments that fought at the Battle of Mansfield, La and did so well. After the surrender many of these MO POWs were loaded on the ship Kentucky for transport. Just below Shreveport the boiler blew and it went down killing most all of them. Later the river changed. Just below the end of the Clyde Fant Parkway, mostly up in the bank lies the remains of the Kentucky and those brave Missouri Confederates.
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