Bates County Courthouse has a statue, erected in 1927, of what informal term for a member of the US Army?
Doughboy Doughboy was an informal term for a member of the United States Army or Marine Corps, especially used to refer to members of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, but initially used in the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. A popular mass-produced sculpture of the 1920s designed by E. M. Viquesney – the Spirit of the American Doughboy – shows a U.S. soldier in World War I uniform.
28th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry The 28th Massachusetts Infantry regiment was the second primarily Irish American volunteer infantry regiment recruited in Massachusetts for service in the American Civil War. The regiment's motto (or cry) was "Faugh a Ballagh (Clear the Way!)"