These are the names of the ten Confederate generals after whom U.S. military bases are named with information about them that makes changing the names of these bases worth consideration.

The installations are all in the States whose armies fought against the United States, the onetime Confederate ones, with Virginia having three of the 10; Louisiana and Georgia each having two; and Alabama, North Carolina, and Texas having one each.

The earliest fort bearing a Confederate name was Fort Benning, built in 1917, over fifty years after the Civil War had ended, and when Jim Crow laws were instituted in the South to deprive those slaves who had been freed and their descendents the rights the war was all about and for which citizens of the United States fought and died.

As you can see, they are not the best role-models for young people entering military service, especially if you are not White. This is bad not only for recruits of Color, but for young, eager, and somewhat naive White recruits who might be influenced and act in such a way, while emulating the person after whom the base is named having absorbed them either through active brainwashing or through the passing on of a “culture” on the base.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter and had said

  “In seventy-five years the colored race would disappear from America along with the Indians and the buffalo”, and Blacks would be controlled by the whites politically;” and also wrote that the “colored people” were inferior, ignorant, and indolent. 

He subjugated and rented people

• Henry L. Benning,  in justifying the Civil War asked and answered the question,

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“What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? This reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction, a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery”.

He also said that the abolition of slavery would lead to  black governors, black legislatures, black juries, black everything”. 

He held 89 people in bondage.

• General Braxton Bragg is generally considered among the worst generals of the Civil War. In January 11, 1861, Bragg led a group of 500 volunteers to Baton Rouge, and persuaded the commander of the federal arsenal there to surrender. S

He held 105 people in bondage.

• John Brown Gordon, was the leader of the Georgia KKK.

He held a child in bondage

• Lieutenant GeneralA. P. Hill. He was frequently ill, and some historians believe this was due to the gonorrhea he contracted while on furlough from West Point. Although he did not own any people, he quit the US Army in 1861 to join the 13th Virginia Infantry at the outbreak of the Civil War and made it known that he did not want to survive the fall of the Confederacy. He got that wish fulfilled in April 1865 when he was shot by a Union soldier during a battle in Petersburg, Virginia. 

• General John Bell Hood. Writing to General Sherman on September 12, 1864, he said, regarding the Union Army,

“You came into our country with your Army, avowedly for the purpose of subjugating free white men, women, and children, and not only intend to rule over them, but you make negroes your allies, and desire to place over us an inferior race, which we have raised from barbarism to its present position, which is the highest ever attained by that race, in any country in all time.”

Although his family, not he, himself, owned slaves, when things were getting a little dicey during the war he gave orders to procure thousands of slaves – demanding the ‘services of 4,000 negroes’ for his army.  

• Robert E. Lee who. among the obvious, inherited 189 slaves from his father-in-law who had included a provision in the will that they be freed after five years, fought this provision multiple times.

• General George Pickett.  In 1864 he executed 22 captured Union Army soldiers from North Carolina.

• Right Reverend Leonidas Polk, was a bishop of the  Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States Of America which separated from the Episcopal Church of the United States of America and later returned to the whole Episcopal conference at the end of the Civil war. He put government over religion when he justified his resignation as a bishop to become “Sewanee’s “Fighting Bishop”.  According to Military historian Steven E. Woodworth,

 “Polk’s incompetence and willful disobedience had consistently hamstrung Confederate operations west of the Appalachians, while his special relationship with the president made the bishop-general untouchable.”

He held 400 people in bondage.

• Edmund Rucker, was an honorary general who had enforced martial law in east Tennessee, punishing people who attacked Southern troops and forcing others to join the Confederate forces, and was in General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry at the time of the Fort Pillow Massacre in 1864 when hundreds of African-American troops were killed by Confederate forces.

They were slave owners, traitors to their oath of allegiance to the United States, and some very poor military leaders  who have become the inspiration for many in the military service, and according to Donald Trump,

“These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom. The United States of America trained and deployed our HEROES on these Hallowed Grounds, and won two World Wars. Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations.”

First. the bases are named after Confederate generals who lost the war to continue to deprive people of their freedom.

Second, what happens at the bases is not dependent on the name of the base, “a rose by any other name…..”

Third, as these forts are “Hallowed Grounds”, the names, not being hallowed, can easily change with no affect on training, or base sacredness.

According to Trump’s press secretary

“The bases are not known for the generals they’re named after. The bases are known for the heroes within it. They’re great Americans, Black, white, Hispanic, of every race who have died on behalf of this great country.”

So, if the names are not that relevant to the training of heroes, the names can be changed with little affect since.

There are many heroes, male and female other than these ten who would better exemplify what the United States is all about.