According to the National Park Service, he helped to capture the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry in 1862 before a Union soldier shot and killed him on April 2, 1865. Fort Lee, in Prince George County, Virginia, is named for Robert E. Lee, the Virginia commander who was a slave owner. On March 1, 1861, he became the first Confederate general officer with the rank of brigadier general and took command of the Confederate forces in Charleston, S.C. David H. Petraeus, a retired general and former C.I.A. The fort was named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee and is located on historic grounds where European settlers first met the Powhatan Confederation in 1607 and where Captain John Smith set up some of the first plantations along the James River. It was during Washington's retreat in November 1776 (beginning along a road which is now Main Street) that Thomas Paine composed his pamphlet, The American Crisis, which began with the recognized phrase, "These are the times that try men's souls." Its first superintendent was William Tecumseh Sherman, who went on to become a famous commander of the Union Army, while most of his students fought for the Confederacy, according to the Louisiana National Guard Museums. Hill, who was regarded as one of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s most trusted lieutenants, fought in the Battle of Cedar Mountain and the Second Battle of Bull Run. After the war, he served as president of Washington College — now Washington and Lee University — in Lexington, Va., from 1865 until his death in 1870. Benning fought in several battles, including the Battle of Gettysburg. Fort Rucker, which covers about 63,000 acres in southeastern Alabama, serves as the headquarters for U.S. Army Aviation. director, is among those who have argued that the base should be renamed. Named for: Brig. He died in 1998. Camp Beauregard serves as the primary annual training site for the Louisiana National Guard. He led Confederates in numerous battles, including the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee and the Siege of Corinth in Northern Mississippi. Beauregard. Fort Lee was created as Camp Lee in 1917. The base was named for John Bell Hood, a Kentucky-born West Point graduate who resigned his commission in the United States military and became a Confederate cavalry captain after the Civil War began in 1861, according to the National Park Service. The Army designated it as Camp Lee on July 15, 1917, naming it in honor of Robert E… After the United States entered World War I in 1917, the camp was named for Pierre G.T. John Hunt Morgan, a Confederate commander; and Lt. Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill, a Confederate officer who was chosen in part because he was from Virginia, according to a military brochure on the fort’s history. A Virginia-born West Point graduate, Lee was appointed the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862, and he led Confederate troops in several battles before surrendering to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in 1865. “His name should be taken off everything in America, period,” Mr. de Blasio said. Here’s a look at the 10 Army installations and the Confederate leaders for whom they were named. In October 1955, it was renamed Fort Rucker. The post was named for Col. Edmund W. Rucker, a Confederate officer who became a wealthy industrialist in Birmingham, Ala., after the war. It was formally dedicated as Camp Pickett at 3 p.m. on July 3, 1942, exactly 79 years to the day and hour after Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett, a Virginia-born Confederate officer, helped lead the bloody and ill-fated assault known as Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg. After the war, Pickett became an insurance salesman in Richmond, Va. It was established on Sept. 4, 1918, and named Camp Bragg, in honor of Gen. Braxton Bragg, a native of North Carolina and a West Point graduate who fought in the Mexican-American War and later for the Confederacy, commanding the Army of Tennessee during the Civil War. Fort Lee was named for General Charles Lee after George Washington and his troops had camped at Mount Constitution overlooking Burdett's Landing, in defense of New York City. Fort Lee, an Army base 25 miles south of Richmond, Va., was built during the mobilization for World War I. A debate is unfolding over whether to rename the installations, as part of a broader national reckoning over buildings, monuments and memorials to men who fought to preserve slavery and uphold white supremacy. Others, like Fort Hood in Texas, make no mention on their websites of the Confederate officers whose legacies they honor. Fort Polk, an Army base in west-central Louisiana, was established in 1941 during the Louisiana Maneuvers, a series of Army exercises in the run-up to World War II. Gen. Pierre G.T. Originally, three men were considered for the installation's name: Maj. Gen. James McAndrew, a World War I veteran; Capt. The League of United Latin American Citizens, commonly known as LULAC, has adopted a resolution to rename the base for Roy P. Benavidez, a Green Beret sergeant born in South Texas. Writing in The Atlantic, he said that not only was Bragg an undistinguished military commander, but that he and other Confederates also committed treason and the “Army should not brook any celebration of those who betrayed their country.”. Mr. Benavidez received the Medal of Honor from President Ronald Reagan for heroism while wounded in the Vietnam War and then fought to keep the government from cutting off his disability payments. Some of the military installations acknowledge their namesakes on their websites. After the war, he practiced law in Columbus, Ga. On Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York called on military officials to rename another place named for Lee, General Lee Avenue, a major road through the Fort Hamilton Army base in Brooklyn. In early june, a Pentagon official said that Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy were “open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic” of removing Confederate names from the bases. Fort Gordon, formerly known as Camp Gordon, is the home of the Army Cyber Center of Excellence, the Army Signal Corps and the Army Cyber Command. Scattered across the American South, 10 Army bases bear the names of Confederate officers, including several who resigned their commissions in the United States military and fought against the Union Army in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. President Trump, however, has flatly rejected any such discussions, writing on Twitter that “my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations.”. But before the post officially opened on May 1, 1942, the War Department named it Camp Rucker. Hood was promoted to major general in 1862, and he led Confederate troops in numerous battles, including the Battle of Gettysburg. Fort Lee was established as Camp Lee in … He died on Aug. 30, 1879. He was a corps commander during the Battles of Shiloh, Perryville and Murfreesboro, and was later removed from command by Braxton Bragg, for whom Fort Bragg was named. Fort Lee, an Army base 25 miles south of Richmond, Va., was built during the mobilization for World War I. Fort Lee is named for Robert E. Lee, a former U.S. Army colonel who became commanding general of the Confederate army during the Civil War. Beauregard, a Louisiana-born Confederate military commander. The Army designated it as Camp Lee on July 15, 1917, naming it in honor of Robert E. Lee, the most famous Confederate general. It was established as an Army training facility on June 11, 1941. He was also a businessman and was believed to be head of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, according to the National Governors Association. Cook Collection, Valentine Museum, Richmond, Va. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images, 10 Army bases bear the names of Confederate officers, according to the National Governors Association. Fort Pickett, spread across approximately 41,000 acres, is operated by the Virginia National Guard. Sprawling over nearly 215,000 acres, Fort Hood is the only post in the United States capable of stationing and training two armored divisions. Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Brady-Handy Collection/Library of Congress. Hill, spread over nearly 76,000 acres, is an all-purpose, year-round military training site with a 27,000-acre live-fire complex. These events are recalled at Monument Park and Fort Lee Historic Park. Established during the early months of World War II, the original name of the post was Ozark Triangular Division Camp. In The Atlantic, Mr. Petraeus called Benning “such an enthusiast for slavery that as early as 1849 he argued for the dissolution of the Union and the formation of a Southern slavocracy.”, These Are the 10 U.S. Army Installations Named for Confederates, Brig. Pickett had graduated last in his class at West Point and had fought in the Mexican-American War before he resigned his commission in the U.S. military to join the Confederate Army in 1861, according to the National Park Service.