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- 1916 – More than 75 members of the Monticello Guard, Company D, 1st Regiment departed Charlottesville to join other Virginia Guard groups, totaling nearly 4,000, heading to the border lines of the Mexican Revolution. President Woodrow Wilson had ordered American troops to patrol and protect the border following a raid by Mexican bandits on the city of Columbus, New Mexico that killed several American citizens.