There was a unit of the US Army referred to as the Dixie Division according to the April 2nd Wilmington Star-News. The 31st Division marched under both the US flag and that of the Confederacy.
Today, the Confederate battle flag has come under increasing attack by those who consider it to represent racial division, oppression, and prejudice.
Former member Leo Vereen, 77, says, "I've had buddies to die under that flag." He fought with the unit during the Korean War and he is very upset at the flag attacks.
Most of the unit members were from the South and there were some blacks in it as well, and he never found any of them having a problem with the flag either.
The division was sent to France during WW I and disbanded in 1919. It was reorganized as a National Guard Division in 1923 with units from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. It was inducted into federal service in November 1940.
Two National Guard units from Wilmington were also mobilized, the 120th Infantry Regiment and 252nd Coast Artillery Battalion.
The division served in the Pacific Theater of action and was deactivated in December 1945.
Never Heard of This Group Before. --Da Coot
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