Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery for more than a century. The military changed the ...
Bragg is back.” It took an act of Congress — overriding Trump’s 2020 veto — to remove Confederate names from military installations, including nine Army facilities. Although several ...
By Chris Cameron Reporting from Fort Bragg, N.C. The sprawling Army base in North Carolina had long been named for Braxton Bragg, an incompetent Confederate general who owned enslaved people.
The short-lived existence of Fort Liberty came to an end Friday when the nation's largest Army installation officially returned to its former name: Fort Bragg. Christened a century ago in honor of ...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The short-lived existence of Fort Liberty came to an end Friday when the nation’s largest Army installation ... a century ago in honor of Confederate Gen.
Bragg of Maine. It was originally named for Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, a North Carolina native. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed) U.S. Army veteran Sgt. Mike Lee, who served at Fort Bragg ...