[Footnote 1: As the men were not natives of the South, had no property there, and were mostly political adventurers, they were called "carpetbaggers," or men who owned nothing save what they brought in their carpetbags.]

He carried a carpetbag full of belongings in one hand, which he put in the wagon, and a fiddle in its case in the other.

" "I've got a little carpetbag," said his mother.