Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: ssc-vax!shuksan!major@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Mike Schmitt) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Posts named after CSA (Re: German Weapons in WW2) Message-ID: <7202@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 7 Jun 89 03:35:38 GMT References: <6864@cbnews.ATT.COM> <6998@cbnews.ATT.COM> <7018@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: The Boeing Co., BAC MMST, Seattle, WA Lines: 42 Approved: military@att.att.com From: ssc-vax!shuksan!major@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Mike Schmitt) > From: scameron@blake.acs.washington.edu (Scott Cameron) > Other than the M3 Stuart and Ft. Bragg, what has the US military named after > Confederates? > [mod.note: Well, let's put those danged rebels back in their place 8-) Since you asked: Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia LTG Ambrose Powell Hill, CSA Fort Benning, Georgia BG Henry L. Benning, CSA Fort Bragg, North Carolina GEN Braxton Bragg, CSA Fort Gordon, Georgia LTG John Brown Gordon, CSA Fort Hood, Texas GEN John Bell Hood, CSA Fort Lee, Virginia GEN Robert E. Lee, CSA Fort Pickett, Virginia MG George Edward Pickett, CSA Fort Rucker, Alabama COL Edward W. Rucker, CSA major