President Donald Trump's defense secretary can't simply snap his fingers and change Texas' Fort Cavazos back to Fort Hood. A ...

It's unclear how much it might cost the military to change the name again. Hegseth already signaled his intention to revert the original, Confederate names of two bases. In some of his first ...

Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states of Virginia, West Virginia Maryland ... the Confederate Army of the Potomac ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023. But in a ...

Less than two years after Fort Bragg was renamed Fort Liberty to drop the name of a Confederate general, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered that the Army base revert to its former name.

She was also the first woman to lead an armed military assault that freed over 750 enslaved people and destroyed a Confederate agricultural area, according to a Maryland National Guard press release.

Fort Bragg was a reference to confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg from Warrenton. The name change came as part of an initiative by the Department of Defense to rename nine military installations ...

The army base was earlier named after Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general. The Pentagon said the name will now honor Roland L. Bragg, a soldier who was decorated for his service during World War II.