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  2. Louisiana National Guard Training Center Pineville - Wikipedia

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    The current base covers 12,500 acres (51 km 2) and is home to many different units and elements of the Louisiana Army National Guard. The camp was originally named for Louisiana native and Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. [1] Camp Beauregard was one of ten U.S. Army installations named for former Confederate Generals. [2]

  3. Fort Beauregard - Wikipedia

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    The fort is situated on almost the only point where the upland hills of Louisiana come within artillery range of the Ouachita; thus the batteries of the fort controlled the water approach to Monroe, the only city of military importance in Northeast Louisiana. Because the Confederates concentrated here, the fort took on a greater significance ...

  4. List of U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers

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    There are nine major U.S. military bases that were formerly named in honor of Confederate military leaders, all in former Confederate States. [12] All were renamed in 2023: Fort Benning (1917), near Columbus, Georgia , named for Confederate General Henry L. Benning , was redesignated Fort Moore on 11 May 2023 in honor of General Hal Moore and ...

  5. Fort Proctor - Wikipedia

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    Fort Proctor is a ruined 19th century fort in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA. It is also known as Fort Beauregard or Beauregard's Castle (after P.G.T. Beauregard, who supervised its construction with the architect J.G. Totten). The fort is on the shore of Lake Borgne just north of the mouth of Bayou Yscloskey.

  6. Fort Beauregard (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Fort Proctor, in Lake Borgne, Louisiana; also known as Fort Beauregard or Beauregard's Castle Railroad Redoubt , at the Siege of Vicksburg , was also known as Fort Beauregard Fort Beauregard, fort sited on Philip's Island in South Carolina that Union forces captured at the Battle of Port Royal in 1861

  7. Chalmette Regiment - Wikipedia

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    A company of forty men from the Chalmette regiment defended Fort Beauregard with four artillery pieces until September 4, 1863, when the regiment's commander, Lt.Col. George W.Logan, ordered it to be abandoned. Logan personally supervised the destruction of the breastworks, casements, and commissary stores by fires and explosions before ...

  8. Missing Army sergeant's body found in dumpster on Fort ... - AOL

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    The base is about 80 miles south of Jefferson City, the state's capital. During a press conference Thursday, Maj. General Christopher Beck said Roque's body was found in a dumpster on the base ...

  9. Fort Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Fort Johnson, formerly Fort Polk, is a United States Army installation located in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, about 10 miles (15 km) east of Leesville and 30 miles (50 km) north of DeRidder in Beauregard Parish. Named after New York soldier William Henry Johnson, the post encompasses about 198,000 acres (309 sq mi).