06/11/2025June 11, 2025
US army bases to return to Confederate names, Trump announces
US President said that the country’s military would rename bases whose names had been changed after the racial justice protests in 2023, in the wake of
“We are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort AP Hill and Fort Robert E. Lee,” Trump said, while speaking at Fort Bragg, which had already been reverted to its original name earlier this year, from Fort Liberty.
“We won a lot of battles out of those forts. It’s no time to change,” he added.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sidestepped a Congressional provision banning bases having Confederate names, using the old names of the bases while saying they were renamed after people with the same names of the Confederate officials.
For example, Fort Lee was initially named after Civil War-era Confederate commander Robert E. Lee and renamed Fort Gregg-Adams in 2023.
Under Trump’s new orders, it would be renamed after Private Fitz Lee, a Medal of Honor recipient from the Spanish-American War.
Many Americans see Confederate flags and base names as symbols of white supremacy. The Confederacy was the group of US states which fought against ending slavery, among other things, and lost in the US civil war.
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