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Green K. Fountain Sr. was born in 1792 in North Carolina, the son of Henry Fountain and Lucretia Booth Fountain. He married Nancy Ann Lewis, the daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Lewis. He later died in Alabama. Their children included Elizabeth Mahala, Martha, Elizabeth Ann, John, Frances, Henry, Lewis, Green, Harriet, Samuel, Nancy, George and William. Other localities include South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi and Ohio.
Send the Alabamians recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I. To mark the centenary of World War I, Send the Alabamians tells the remarkable story of a division of Alabama recruits whose service Douglas MacArthur observed had not “been surpassed in military history.” The book borrows its title from a quip by American General Edward H. Plummer who commanded the young men during the inauspicious early days of their service. Impressed with their ferocity and esprit de corps but exasperated by their rambunctiousness, Plummer ...