items were cataloged and moved to the university archives in the old Hill Memorial Library on campus. On 3 November 1978 the LSU Board of Supervisors officially named the LSU library the "Troy H. Middleton Library," 20 years after the building was first dedicated. However, in June 2020, the LSU Board of Supervisors voted to strip Middleton's name from the library, due to his past pro-segregationist stances. A plaque and bust honoring him were also removed from the library and placed in storage. In Baton Rouge, off of South Foster Drive is a street named Middleton Place in honor of the General; and in 1986 at Mississippi State University the Army and Air Force ROTC building was named in honor of Middleton. When interviewed by Middleton's biographer in 1965, former United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had once been a student of Middleton's, had this to say about his former instructor: Dates of rank Ancestry of Troy Houston Middleton See also Allied Invasion of Italy Order of Battle Invasion of Normandy Operation Overlord Operation Cobra order of battle List of lieutenant generals in the United States Army before 1960 (item #86) References Notes A. While some references call her "Katherine Louise," the 1870 and 1900 federal censuses for Copiah County, Mississippi and her tombstone in the Bethel Church Cemetery all give her name as "Laura Catherine," the latter spelled with a C. Citations Bibliography External links 45th Division: Troy H. Middleton The general that history forgot; and one that popular lore created" by Mitchell Kaidy "Who really liberated Bastogne?" by Mitchell Kaidy "Did Patton himself write noble letter to Middleton?" by Mitchell Kaidy The Battle of the Bulge – Fortunes of War Generals of World War II United States Army Officers 1939–1945 |- |- 1889 births 1976 deaths United States Army Infantry Branch personnel United States Army personnel of World War I Leaders of Louisiana State University Mississippi State University alumni People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana People from Copiah County, Mississippi Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army) Recipients of the Legion of Merit Recipients of the Silver Star United States Army generals United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni United States Army War College alumni United States Army generals of World War II United States Army Command and General Staff College faculty Military personnel from Mississippi Louisiana State University faculty 20th-century American academics