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This one's a doozy, and I don't know where to put it o), but anyway...
The idea was first proposed by Pyeknu94 in another thread, and the basic idea is that like the Canadian Army perpetuating CEF battalion names, all U.S. Army National Guard units would perpetuate names and history of Civil War-era regiments from that state. For example, Maine Army NG would get 20th Maine back, and Minnesota Army NG gets 1st Minnesota, and so on...