Pretending to rename it for the first soldier they could find with the same last name and with any sort of distinguished record.
Here's a quote, meanwhile, from the traitor scum they were so butthurt about no longer honoring. For context, he's begging Virginia in February 1861 to also break away from the United States:
"What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? That reason may be summed up in a single proposition. It was a conviction; a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery."
Imagine being so racist that you raise a stink about our country finally having the good sense to flush that turd down the drain.