The Army is About to Rename 9 Confederate Forts — Here Are the Names
As a soldier between 1997 and 2003 and an airman between 2003 and 2007, much of my time in the military was spent at what we might today call “rebel forts.”
They were US Army posts (only the Air Force and Navy call them bases), which were named after Confederate generals.
As a young recruit from Texas, I attended infantry school at Fort Benning, Georgia, named after Gen. Henry Benning, who commanded the 17th Georgia Infantry under Robert E. Lee.