Three U.S. military bases have been named after these Confederate leaders (clockwise): Gen. John B. Hood, Gen. Pierre Beauregard and Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon. (National Archives) In the debate over Confederate symbols in the U.S., the10 Army basesnamed afterConfederate generals ...
Two days after the Army opened the door to potentially changing the names of installations named after Confederate generals, President Donald Trump slammed it shut — citing the “Great American Heritage” of the bases that honor the rebel cause. The bases, he said on Twitter, were “Monumen...
These are the 10 US military bases still named after Confederate soldiersDaniel Brown
"I wonder myself what took so long," said retired Lt. Gen. Tom Bostick, a member of The Naming Commission, charged with renaming Army bases named in honor of Confederate generals. "What was galling is that we would still in this day and age have names of bases that represented traitors...