American soldiers from Banks County, Georgia gave their lives in heroic sacrifice for their country while serving on foreign soil in the wars of this century, including Henry T. Gillespie, James M. Martin, James C. Mize, William O. Nunnally, Giles Parsons, Jess Poole, John T. Smelley, Hubert A. Ausborn, Marvin H. Brown, Clyde Carpenter, Burch E. Caudell, Almond Chandler, Lewis H. Cheek, Powell D. Cochran, Broughton B. Crumley, William R. Dalton, John D. Dodd, Seaborn Duckett, Thomas S. Garrison, Roger E. Hill, Boyd H. Lewallen, John C. Lewallen, Hoyt L. Ray, Otho Sheridan, Robert V. Smelley, Willie W. Thompson, Luther Whitfield, and Clyde Coker, who served in World War I, World War II, and Korea.