Forgotten no more: GS researchers rediscovered 13 Black Bulloch County soldiers who died in WWI
Fully 50% of the Bulloch County residents who died in military service during World War I – 13 of the 26 local men – were African American. But only two of the black soldiers from Bulloch County who lost their lives during the war, namely Willie Brannen and Clarence Lyons, were killed in combat.