Editing Berrien County, Georgia (section)

===World War I===
Berrien County lost a disproportionate number of men in [[World War I]] in part because companies at that time were organized by militia districts at home. Eight weeks before the Armistice, 25 Berrien County men were among the 200 recently enlisted soldiers who perished at sea off the coast of Scotland.<ref>Otranto Sunk in Collision,"'' New York Times'', October 12, 1918.</ref>  Many of the bodies were returned to the soldiers' hometowns for burial, and the names of the dead were engraved on a memorial located on the courthouse grounds in Nashville. The memorial was the first in a series of pressed copper sculptures by artist [[E. M. Viquesney]] entitled ''[[The Spirit of the American Doughboy]]''.