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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 ...
The commission tasked with recommending new names for bases named for Confederates sent a list of new names including Fort Gordon and Fort Benning.
At a July 9, 2020, hearing in HASC, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said, "I personally think that the original decisions to name those bases after Confederate bases were political decisions back in the 1910s and '20s....The American Civil War was fought, and it was an act of rebellion. It was an act of treason at the time ...
Between 2022 and 2023, the names of nine US military bases previously dedicated to Confederate leaders were changed, the result of the National Defense Authorization Act passed at the end of the ...
Anti-racist agitation in the early 2020s led to calls for changing bases to remove the names of Confederate figures who fought against the Union during the American Civil War. [6] The Naming Commission was created by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, [7] and renaming began in December 2022. [8]
The change was the most prominent in a broad Department of Defense initiative, motivated by the 2020 George Floyd protests, to rename military installations that had been named after confederate ...
Last year, a commission created by Congress recommended new names for nine bases that honored Confederate officers, after the nationwide protests following the 2020 police killing of George Floyd ...
Pages in category "Military installations of the Confederate States of America" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .