How the Trump Administration Is Erasing History and Ignoring the Wishes of Descendants of Confederate Leaders

Bogdan Hofbauer

Jennifer Barnhill is a columnist for Military.com writing about military families. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently renamed Fort Liberty, North Carolina, choosing the name Fort Bragg. Not that Bragg, though. The base had long been called Fort Bragg in honor of a Confederate general, but it was changed in 2023 following a congressional mandate to reconsider names tied to leaders of a military that had taken up arms against its own country. Hegseth, in a bit of a sleight of hand, chose