DeSantis and Pence vowed to revert Fort Liberty’s name to Fort Bragg, honoring a Confederate general, while Haley refused to condemn the Confederate flag.
hoping to become president of the United States of America are trying, in yet another election, to win over voters who harbor a fondness for the treasonous, pro-slavery Confederate States of America.
, who just weeks before his Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt vetoed an annual defense bill because it required that military bases honoring Confederates be renamed.“These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage,” Trump wrote in aDeSantis’ campaign did not respond to HuffPost’s queries about his North Carolina promise.
University of North Carolina history professor and Civil War expert Joe Glatthaar, though, found that notion laughable, adding that it was possible to learn about that period without honoring those who fought to defend the ability of wealthy white people to own Black people.
In that role, he quickly earned a reputation for both incompetence and cruelty. He executed a conscript for leaving his unit to visit his dying mother, despite the pleas of other top officers. At the same time, he was losing battle after battle, including one of the war’s most pivotal at Chattanooga, Tennessee, in late 1863. He later failed to hold the harbor in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1865, just weeks before the South’s surrender.
Monuments honoring Confederate “heroes” across the nation began coming down, including those in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the South. A major road named for Robert E. Lee was renamed in Arlington. And Congress, with bipartisan majorities, included in the National Defense Authorization Act the creation of a commission to rename military bases that bore the names of Confederates.
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