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A Louisiana Army base named after a Confederate general has been renamed after a Black war hero and Medal of Honor recipient. Western Louisiana’s Fort Polk, named after Confederate commander ...
Georgia’s Fort Gordon was re-designated Fort Eisenhower on Friday, becoming the last of nine Army posts to be stripped of their former Confederate general names. “Change is often necessary ...
The Army has finished renaming nine installations that previously honored confederate generals with the redesignation Friday of Fort Gordon in Georgia to Fort Eisenhower. The Defense Department ...
The last army base once named for Confederate general, Fort Gordon in Georgia, is now Fort Eisenhower. It's a major milestone in reversing decades of propaganda surrounding the Confederate cause.
Fort Polk, an Army installation in Louisiana that for decades bore the name of a Confederate general, was re-designated Fort Johnson on Tuesday in honor of Sgt. William Henry Johnson, a Black ...
Fort Bragg was named after Confederate Army Gen. Braxton Bragg. North Carolina's Fort Bragg, named after Confederate Army Gen. Braxton Bragg, was officially redesignated to Fort Liberty on Friday.
Named for Confederate General George Pickett, it was first established as Camp Pickett when the Army built it as a combat training ground soon after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Then, in 1974 ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed to restore the name of a U.S. Army base in North Carolina to that of a Confederate general, the Raleigh News & Observer reported. At a North Carolina GOP convention on ...
The U.S. Army National Guard's 29th Infantry Division is keeping its patch that honors service in the Confederate Army. "We applaud the decision of the Naming Commission to recommend the 29th ...
By Chris Cameron WASHINGTON — During the Jim Crow era, nine Southern Army bases were named for treasonous Confederate generals who fought to preserve slavery and white supremacy. Now a ...
Novosel had been Fort Rucker, named for Col. Edmund Rucker, a brigade commander in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.