{"id":14894,"date":"2018-09-27T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/09\/27\/should-american-military-bases-be-named-after-confederate-officers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:51:00","slug":"should-american-military-bases-be-named-after-confederate-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/opinion\/commentary\/2018\/09\/27\/should-american-military-bases-be-named-after-confederate-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Should American military bases be named after Confederate officers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the debate over Confederate symbols in the U.S., the <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3932914\/army-bases-confederate\/\">10 Army bases<\/a> named after <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/natsec\/IN10756.pdf\" target=_blank>Confederate generals who fought for the South<\/a> during the Civil War have largely escaped scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a former newspaper reporter and a current journalism professor, I have wondered why the media have mostly overlooked this story of military installations that still bear the names of those who fought to maintain slavery and white supremacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Working for a newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia, 37 years ago, I covered an event where nearly 30,000 Boy Scouts from across the country converged on Fort A.P. Hill, about 80 miles south of Washington, D.C., for a week of fellowship and fun. It was the <a href=\"https:\/\/history.oa-bsa.org\/node\/3142\">Boy Scouts\u2019 1981 Jamboree<\/a>, and the theme that year was \u201cScouting\u2019s Reunion with History.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking back, I feel more than a tinge of regret: I missed the real story at the Jamboree. That story was all about history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.battlefields.org\/learn\/biographies\/p-hill\">Ambrose Powell Hill Jr.<\/a> was a Confederate general who died during a battle in Petersburg, Virginia, south of Richmond, in 1865. Before the Civil War, he was in the U.S. Army. But as Virginia seceded from the Union, Hill resigned and joined the efforts to defend the Confederate States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder if the Scouts back in \u201981 knew that their Jamboree was being held on an Army base named in honor of a man who fought, in effect, to defend slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is the story I should have written.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2017\/08\/15\/meet-the-navy-ships-named-in-honor-of-the-confederacy\/\" 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\/chancellorsville.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\">Meet the Navy ships named in honor of the Confederacy<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Navy has a history of naming ships after icons of the Confederacy. Such honorifics have turned contentious, most recently in the fatal protests last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.<\/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\">Virginia has three of the 10 military installations named after Confederates. Louisiana and Georgia each have two. Alabama, North Carolina and Texas each have one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bases were named for such figures as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.army.mil\/about\/history.aspx\">Robert E. Lee<\/a> of Virginia, who commanded the Confederate Army; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battlefields.org\/learn\/biographies\/p-g-t-beauregard\">Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard<\/a> of Louisiana, whose troops shelled Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 12, 1861, launching the Civil War; and John Brown Gordon of Georgia, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/articles\/government-politics\/john-b-gordon-1832-1904\">historians say<\/a> was a Ku Klux Klan leader after the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four of the bases were established at the start of World War I, and the others at the start of World War II \u2013 times when the Army was in recruitment mode and appealing to young white men in the South. This was an era when Southern states promoted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediavirginia.org\/Lost_Cause_The\">\u201cLost Cause\u201d ideology<\/a>: that the Confederacy\u2019s rebellion was an honorable struggle for the Southern way of life and that the \u201cWar of Northern Aggression\u201d was over states\u2019 rights, not slavery. From their perspective at the time, memorializing Confederate generals seemed reasonable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2015\/06\/24\/1-star-posts-named-for-soldiers-not-confederate-cause\/\">Army officials have said<\/a> they named the bases in the spirit of reconciliation, not division. They viewed the Confederate generals as tragic heroes, not treasonable racists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1046\" height=\"594\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Union.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Union.jpg.jpg 1046w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Union.jpg.jpg?resize=300,170 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Union.jpg.jpg?resize=768,436 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Union.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,582 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1046px) 100vw, 1046px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Members of the U.S. Colored Infantry in 1862 line up at Fort Lincoln, Washington, D.C. (National Archives)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lost Cause ideology, which portrays slaves as happy and their owners as benevolent, has been thoroughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/resources\/story.htm%3Fid%3D217\">discredited<\/a>. In recent years, communities across the U.S. have questioned, if not dismantled, statues and other symbols memorializing the Confederacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While such efforts have focused on local landmarks, I believe an even stronger case could be made for renaming national symbols that evoke the Confederacy. Soldiers of various races and ethnicities are stationed at the Army bases. For decades, defense officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArmyChiefStaff\/status\/897742317897093121\">spoken forcefully<\/a> against racial intolerance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some members of Congress want to rename the military facilities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/115th-congress\/house-bill\/3658\/text\">Legislation<\/a> filed in August 2017 by U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., would require the Defense Department to rename any military property \u201cthat is currently named after any individual who took up arms against the United States during the American Civil War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clarke\u2019s proposal has languished for a year in a congressional subcommittee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If my journalism students could travel back in time to the 1981 National Scout Jamboree, I hope they would follow the Boy Scouts\u2019 motto to \u201cbe prepared.\u201d I want them to be ready to ask questions about how a U.S. Army base came to be named for someone who fought against the Army \u2013 and whether it\u2019s right to honor defenders of a society that enslaved people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Jeff South is an associate professor of journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University. His views do not necessarily reflect those of Military Times or its staff.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia has three of the 10 military installations named after Confederates. Louisiana and Georgia each have two. 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