{"id":26357,"date":"2017-08-16T18:57:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/08\/16\/navy-official-ship-honoring-confederate-victory-unlikely-to-change-name\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:09:58","slug":"navy-official-ship-honoring-confederate-victory-unlikely-to-change-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/2017\/08\/16\/navy-official-ship-honoring-confederate-victory-unlikely-to-change-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy official: Ship name honoring Confederate victory unlikely to change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As America churns through a bloody debate over the place Confederate monuments occupy in the modern day United States, a Navy cruiser named in honor of a Confederate Civil War victory is unlikely to see its named changed, a service official said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The guided-missile cruiser Chancellorsville was commissioned in 1989 and derives its name from an 1863 battle considered to be the greatest victory of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Navy named several vessels in honor of the Confederacy<\/a> throughout the 20th century, including the submarine Robert E. Lee, the Stonewall Jackson and submarine tenders named after a Confederate boat and its commander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a Navy official speaking on the condition of anonymity Wednesday said that even though the Chancellorsville is named after a Confederate victory, the name comes from a battle, not an individual, and soldiers on both sides died.<\/p>\n\n\n\t