Nicholas Goldberg: The US fought the Civil War, then honored its enemies by naming army bases after them. Why?
by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Oct 18, 2021
3 minutes
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?
The last I checked, the Confederate army lost the Civil War. So isn't it kind of off-message, to say the least, to name military posts after the rebel officers who fought for the losing side?
Yet that's exactly what the United States did. That's why today we have Ft. Bragg
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