Back many years ago I had a college professor by the name of Dr Roberts, she related the story about when she took a bus load of students from school on a trip down to Atlanta, I don't recall which one but it was a southern school. As they passed through the town of Milledgeville Ga a student from up north informed all that his family had a full set of silverware which his great grandfather had aquired there while serving under Sherman and he had always wondered where the town was located. Dr Roberts said no one talked to him for the rest of the trip.FWIW, my great grandfather served with the 4th Alabama Inf from 1862 to the battle of Atlanta, he lost his right leg there. Didn't keep him from having fourteen kids though. When the Rainbow Division was formed in August 1917 the unit was composed of National Guard units from the north and south whose fathers in many cases had fought each other in the War of Northern agression. Its four infantry regiments were respectively 165th (formerly New York's 69th); 166th (formerly Ohio's 4th); 167th (formerly Alabama's 4th); and 168th (formerly Iowa's 3rd).
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