{"id":46420,"date":"2020-06-14T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/06\/14\/military-base-namesakes-include-slaveholders-failed-generals\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:34:00","slug":"military-base-namesakes-include-slaveholders-failed-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/06\/14\/military-base-namesakes-include-slaveholders-failed-generals\/","title":{"rendered":"Military base namesakes include slaveholders, failed generals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CINCINNATI \u2014 As much as President Donald Trump enjoys talking about winning and winners, the Confederate generals he vows will not have their names removed from U.S. military bases were not only on the losing side of rebellion against the United States, some weren\u2019t even considered good generals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2017\/08\/16\/there-are-10-posts-named-after-confederates-should-the-army-re-name-them\/\" target=_blank>The 10 generals<\/a> include some who made costly battlefield blunders; others mistreated captured Union soldiers, some were slaveholders and one was linked to the Ku Klux Klan after the war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/06\/10\/trump-opposes-changing-bases-named-for-confederate-generals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump has dug in his heels on renaming<\/a>, saying the bases that trained and deployed heroes for two World Wars \u201chave become part of a Great American Heritage, a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2020\/06\/11\/congress-could-force-name-change-at-military-bases-honoring-confederate-generals\/\" target=\"_blank\">growing support in the GOP- led Senate<\/a> to remove the Confederate names and from former U.S. military leaders such as retired 4-star general David Petraeus, who wrote last week that the bases are named \u201cfor those who took up arms against the United States, and for the right to enslave others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2020\/06\/10\/army-leaders-to-make-decision-on-confederate-flags-soon\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP_17224630887907.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Army leaders to make decision on Confederate flags \u2018soon\u2019<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Army leaders will make an announcement \u201csoon,\u201d a defense official said on background.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Long revered in much of the South, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has often been a flashpoint for opponents of honoring Confederates who triggered a war that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans on U.S. soil in some of the bloodiest fighting ever seen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump paid tribute to Lee as \u201ca great general\u201d in an impromptu Civil War history lesson during a 2018 rally in Lebanon, Ohio, saying Abraham Lincoln developed \u201ca phobia\u201d about trying to defeat Lee before turning to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant of nearby Point Pleasant, Ohio, for success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1238\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041396.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"This Aug. 25, 2014, file photo shows security guards opening a gate for motorist at the visitor entrance to Fort Lee, Va.\" class=\"wp-image-77869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041396.jpg.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041396.jpg.jpg?resize=300,186 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041396.jpg.jpg?resize=768,475 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041396.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,634 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041396.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,951 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This Aug. 25, 2014, file photo shows security guards opening a gate for motorist at the visitor entrance to Fort Lee, Va. (Steve Helber\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Lee\u2019s early victories put the Union Army on the defensive, his failure at the decisive battle of Gettysburg in 1863, capped by the disastrous Pickett\u2019s Charge into Union fire, was the turning point of the war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee has been portrayed in the South as a gentlemanly hero, but he had been a slaveholder in his native Virginia and at least one of his former slaves testified that Lee had him whipped brutally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gen. Braxton Bragg, namesake for the famed North Carolina Army base, was also a slaveholder and an unpopular general who resigned his command after defeat in 1863 at Chattanooga. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gen. John Bell Hood, namesake of the Texas base, and his other commanders slept at Spring Hill, Tennessee, after a long day of mostly successful fighting in 1864, allowing Union soldiers to get away on a road so close to the sleeping Confederates that some reportedly used the rebels\u2019 campfires to light their pipes. He followed with defeat at Franklin, Tennessee, and the late historian Shelby Foote wrote in \u201cThe Civil War: A Narrative\u201d that \u201cHood had wrecked his army, top to bottom.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2020\/06\/11\/no-one-knew-they-fighting-for-deeply-honored-us-military-installations-until-today\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3396589.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">No one knew they were fighting specifically for venerable US military installations until today<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">We live in the upside-down.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gen. A.P. Hill, namesake of a base in Virginia, was killed in battle in 1865 but is remembered for actions after the Battle of the Crater in 1864, where some rebel troops were enraged by the North\u2019s use of black units. Some soldiers wrote letters describing rebels executing defenseless black soldiers. Historians say Hill ordered white Union prisoners to be mixed with black soldiers to be paraded through the city of Petersburg to hear racist jeers from the townspeople. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virginia base namesake Gen. George Pickett, the big loser at Gettysburg, had 22 Union soldiers executed and later fled to Canada. Gen. John Brown Gordon, an effective commander, became governor of Georgia after the war but was suspected of being a Klan leader in the state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1074\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041254.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"This Nov. 5, 2009, file photo shows the entrance to Fort Hood Army Base in Fort Hood, Texas, near Killeen, Texas.\" class=\"wp-image-45164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041254.jpg.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041254.jpg.jpg?resize=300,161 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041254.jpg.jpg?resize=768,412 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041254.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,550 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20164631041254.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,825 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This Nov. 5, 2009, file photo shows the entrance to Fort Hood Army Base in Fort Hood, Texas, near Killeen, Texas. (Jack Plunkett\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some scholars of the South, such as history professor Ted Ownby, say it\u2019s not clear how renaming the bases would play politically. 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