Column: The U.S. fought the Civil War, then honored its enemies by naming army bases after them. Why? (via latimesopinion)
How did the United States come to have nearly a dozen military installations named not after its heroes but after its enemies — men who led a war against the country and killed tens of thousands of people in defense of the indefensible institution of slavery?
Plenty of people have rightly demanded that those names be removed — and last year, Congress voted to do so. When President Trump vetoed the legislation , his veto was overridden. A congressionally appointed commission is now overseeing the renaming process and must report back by October 2022.But what has long mystified me is how those bases got named in the first place. Remember, this wasn’t Mississippi or Alabama honoring Confederate officers — this was the United States of America.
The military officials in charge of naming the posts, including Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn, set only the vaguest of rules: The names should honor officers who had a connection to the region and who were “not unpopular” in the area, and they should be short, to save “clerical labor.” Beyond that, the Army seemed not to have cared much. In some cases, officials actively sought to name camps after Confederate commanders if Southern divisions were to be housed there.
Ft. Benning in Georgia, for instance, was named after Confederate Gen. Henry L. Benning because the U.S. secretary of Warof the local chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Rotary Club.
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