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WASHINGTON -- They may come from the land of cotton, but "Dixie" won't be playing when 23 Civil War re-enactors march down Pennsylvania Avenue during the presidential inaugural parade. They'll be wearing Union blue, not Confederate gray. Of course, the selection of these re-enactors from Georgia was hardly random. The 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which they represent, once included Capt. Samuel Cheney, great-grandfather of Vice President Dick Cheney. During an October 2002 visit to the Chickamauga battlefield in Georgia where the regiment gained historical fame, the vice president - a Civil War buff - learned not only that a...

MARIETTA, Ga. - A group of Civil War re-enactors from Cobb County are headed to Washington next month to march in President Bush's inauguration parade. The group, called the 21st Ohio Re-enacting Unit, was invited by Vice President Dick Cheney after Cheney discovered his great-grandfather was a captain in the 21st Ohio Regiment. "We thought as a group that it would really be kind of a tribute, not only to the vice president and his great-grandfather but to the 21st Ohio, to be in the inaugural parade," said unit member Bradley Quinlin, a 50-year-old Suwanee resident who works as a...