Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered the Columbus, Georgia, military post to revert ... who was known for owning slaves and losing key Civil War battles that contributed to the ...

The Trump Administration has returned a Georgia military installation back to its former name, but the name now represents ...

He was assigned to a machine-gun company of the 1st Infantry Division’s 1st Battalion ... Georgia. It was named for Henry Lewis Benning, a Columbus native. In the pre-Civil War South, he ...

The base, which is in Georgia, will again be called Fort Benning ... officers who rebelled against the Union during the Civil War. Mr. Hegseth views those changes as part of a “woke” culture ...

who was a justice on the Georgia Supreme Court who vocally supported secession after Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860. Henry Benning joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War and ...

The Georgia base was named in 2023 after Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, a Korean and Vietnam War veteran, known best for commanding 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in ...