Sunday, March 28, 2021

The Confederacy Lives On

 U.S. Army Bases Named After Confederates

This is a list of major U.S. Army bases located in the South with names derived from the Confederacy of Slavers.  The U.S. government, through Keynesian methods, sends billions of dollars into the South to prop up their economies. The South is also the most ‘militaristic’ part of the country, which makes their placement logical. These bases are named after Confederate generals – who to the U.S. military are objectively traitors.  Supposedly the U.S. military is now thinking of changing the names.  But this will not change the bases' essential nature - now globalizing 'Indian" wars and propping up wage slavery.

Notorious Fort Benning, Georgia

     1.    Fort Lee (Virginia) – Named after the most successful Confederate general and slave-owner Robert E. Lee, who still lost the key battles of Antietam, Gettysburg and the war.

     2.    Fort Bragg (North Carolina) – Named after Confederate general Braxton Bragg, who lost every battle and campaign he fought in except Chickamaugua – that with help from General Longstreet. 

     3.    Fort Benning (Georgia) – Named after secessionist and Confederate general Henry Benning, who fought under Longstreet and Lee.  He later became a leader of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan.  Fort Benning is also home to ‘The School of Americas’ where the U.S. teaches fascists, torturers, dictators and killers from the Central and South American militaries.

4.    Fort Pickett (Virginia) – Named after Confederate general George Pickett, who to his credit resisted Lee’s order to charge on the 3rd day of Gettysburg and never owned slaves, though like so many he was born on a plantation.

5.    Fort Gordon (Georgia) – Named after Confederate general and slaveholder John B. Gordon, who fought under Lee.  Gordon became a virulent anti-Reconstruction senator from Georgia.

6.    Fort Stewart (Georgia) –Is NOT named after Confederate cavalry general J.E.B. Stewart but for Daniel Stewart, a revolutionary war leader.  

7.    Fort Polk (Louisiana) – Named after Confederate general Leonidas Polk, an Episcopal bishop who lost nearly every battle he fought in and was killed when a cannon ball almost cut him in two on Pine Mountain, Georgia.  His original idiocy in occupying Columbus, Kentucky with Confederate soldiers forced the Kentucky legislature (which was ‘neutral’) to request assistance from the U.S. Army.

8.    Fort Jackson (South Carolina) – Is  NOT named after Confederate general Stonewall Jackson but Andrew Jackson, former president and slave-owner.  As a soldier Jackson fought against native Seminoles and Creeks and later organized the criminal Cherokee ‘Trail of Tears.’  He opposed abolitionism as president, which should not be a surprise. 

9.    Fort Hood (Texas) – Named after overly-aggressive Confederate general John B. Hood who lost the battles of Nashville, Franklin and Atlanta with all the fire-breathing gusto he could muster. 

10.  Fort A.P. Hill (Virginia) – Named after Confederate general and slave-owner Ambrose Powell Hill, who fought under Lee and died at the battle of Petersburg.

11.   Camp Beauregard (Louisiana) – Named after Confederate general and plantation owner P.G.T. Beauregard.  He lost nearly every battle he fought after starting the war by shelling Fort Sumter and succeeding at First Bull Run.  He developed the Confederate ‘battle flag’ now beloved by white supremacists and good ‘ol boys everywhere.  However after the war he advocated African-Americans be allowed to vote.

12.   Camp Pendleton (Virginia) – Named after Confederate artillery general and Episcopal priest William Pendleton who fought under Lee. Pendleton became a prime peddler of the “Lost Cause,” lying and blaming Longstreet for Lee’s defeat at Gettysburg.

13.   Fort Rucker (Alabama) – Named after Confederate colonel Edmund Rucker who fought under notorious KKK founder and Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest.  Forrest got him back in a prisoner exchange and they later worked together.  Rucker became a Birmingham, Alabama industrialist and a beneficiary of Jim Crow’s incarcerated labor system.

14.  Camp Maxey (Texas) – Named after Confederate general and secessionist Samuel Maxey, who was an officer in the Confederate cabinet and later became a Texas senator after being pardoned … perhaps not such a jump.

5 other U.S. military bases named after Confederate generals – Van Dorn (Mississippi), Breckenridge (Kentucky), Forrest (Tennessee), Wheeler (Georgia) and Pike (Arkansas) have been closed.

Other prior blog reviews on this topic, use the blog search box, upper left with the term: “Civil War” and ‘slavery.’ 

The Cranky Yankee

March 28, 2021

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