ExplorePentagon restores Fort Benning name to Georgia military base Stephen Berry, a Civil War historian at the University ... The scholars have ambitious plans for more research using some ...

For more than a century, Fort Benning's name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the ...

(Dan Donaldson via AP) For more than a century, Fort Benning’s name honored a ... as part of a broader effort by Congress to strip the names of Civil War rebels from military posts, roads ...

Initial Union attempts to storm the nearby Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia had been unsuccessful in 1861. Thus, the Union began the process of retaking Confederate territory in the ...

For more than a century, Fort Benning's name honored a Confederate ... as part of a broader effort by Congress to strip the names of Civil War rebels from military posts, roads, buildings and ...