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Fort Bragg is a military installation of the United States Army in North Carolina, and is one of the largest military installations in the world, with around 57,000 military personnel.<ref>Ioanes, Ellen; Choi, David (June 9, 2020). [https://www.businessinsider.com/military-bases-named-after-confederate-leaders-2020-6#fort-bragg-in-fayetteville-north-carolina-is-named-for-confederate-gen-braxton-bragg-1 "The US Army is now open to renaming its military bases — here are 10 of them that still reference Confederate leaders"]. ''Business Insider''.</ref> Fort Bragg is located just west of Fayetteville, North Carolina.The fort is named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. It covers over 251 square miles in four counties.<ref>[https://www.military.com/base-guide/fort-bragg Fort Bragg Army Base Guide]. Retrieved Jan 18, 2021</ref> | Fort Bragg is a military installation of the United States Army in North Carolina, and is one of the largest military installations in the world, with around 57,000 military personnel.<ref>Ioanes, Ellen; Choi, David (June 9, 2020). [https://www.businessinsider.com/military-bases-named-after-confederate-leaders-2020-6#fort-bragg-in-fayetteville-north-carolina-is-named-for-confederate-gen-braxton-bragg-1 "The US Army is now open to renaming its military bases — here are 10 of them that still reference Confederate leaders"]. ''Business Insider''.</ref> Fort Bragg is located just west of Fayetteville, North Carolina.The fort is named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. It covers over 251 square miles in four counties.<ref>[https://www.military.com/base-guide/fort-bragg Fort Bragg Army Base Guide]. Retrieved Jan 18, 2021</ref> | ||
| − | The [https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20170822_IN10756_9a06601a24093f058000d1dffd125b3682ef40e0.pdf Congressional Research Service] took up the question of whether it was appropriate to keep Bragg’s and other former Confederate generals’ names on modern-day Army installations in 2017, 10 days after a woman was killed in Charlottesville, Va., during a protest over a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.<ref>Quillin, Martha. [https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article243442316.html How NC Army base came to be named for Bragg. And why a scholar says it’s time to change]. | + | The [https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20170822_IN10756_9a06601a24093f058000d1dffd125b3682ef40e0.pdf Congressional Research Service] took up the question of whether it was appropriate to keep Bragg’s and other former Confederate generals’ names on modern-day Army installations in 2017, 10 days after a woman was killed in Charlottesville, Va., during a protest over a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.<ref name=newsobserver>Quillin, Martha. [https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article243442316.html How NC Army base came to be named for Bragg. And why a scholar says it’s time to change]. |
June 12, 2020. ''newsobserver.com''. Retrieved Jan 18, 2021</ref> | June 12, 2020. ''newsobserver.com''. Retrieved Jan 18, 2021</ref> | ||
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| + | Fort Bragg is one of 10 Army bases named for Confederates. They’re all in Southern states. Half, including Bragg, were established during World War I and half during the 1940s. Many of the millions of soldiers and civilians who have trained and worked on the base since then may have not known that it was named after Gen. Braxton Bragg, whom the [https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/braxton-bragg American Battlefield Trust] describes as “one of the most controversial figures of the Confederate army.”<ref name=newsobserver /> | ||
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| + | It is named after Warrenton native, Braxton Bragg, whose success in the Mexican-American War made him a national hero, but his weaknesses as a military leader were exposed and exploited by the Union during the Civil War. Fort Bragg is the Army's largest military installation with nearly 50,000 soldiers on post.<ref name=abc>Davis, Akilan. [https://abc11.com/fort-bragg-renaming-braxton-confederate-leaders/6243153/ The history behind the naming of Fort Bragg as Pentagon considers renaming base]. June 12, 2020. ''abc11.com''. Retrieved Jan 18, 2021</ref> | ||
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| + | Civil War historian Earl Hess wrote a biography of Bragg published by UNC Press in 2016 titled, “Braxton Bragg: The Most-Hated Man of the Confederacy” and said in [https://www.c-span.org/video/?429295-3/confederate-general-braxton-bragg a lecture at the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute] conference in 2017 that while Bragg was a combative personality, he was unjustly painted by the press of his day as a failure in his personal life and military career.<ref name=newsobserver /> | ||
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Revision as of 08:20, 18 January 2021
Fort Bragg is a military installation of the United States Army in North Carolina, and is one of the largest military installations in the world, with around 57,000 military personnel.[1] Fort Bragg is located just west of Fayetteville, North Carolina.The fort is named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. It covers over 251 square miles in four counties.[2]
The Congressional Research Service took up the question of whether it was appropriate to keep Bragg’s and other former Confederate generals’ names on modern-day Army installations in 2017, 10 days after a woman was killed in Charlottesville, Va., during a protest over a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.[3]
History
Fort Bragg is one of 10 Army bases named for Confederates. They’re all in Southern states. Half, including Bragg, were established during World War I and half during the 1940s. Many of the millions of soldiers and civilians who have trained and worked on the base since then may have not known that it was named after Gen. Braxton Bragg, whom the American Battlefield Trust describes as “one of the most controversial figures of the Confederate army.”[3]
It is named after Warrenton native, Braxton Bragg, whose success in the Mexican-American War made him a national hero, but his weaknesses as a military leader were exposed and exploited by the Union during the Civil War. Fort Bragg is the Army's largest military installation with nearly 50,000 soldiers on post.[4]
Civil War historian Earl Hess wrote a biography of Bragg published by UNC Press in 2016 titled, “Braxton Bragg: The Most-Hated Man of the Confederacy” and said in a lecture at the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute conference in 2017 that while Bragg was a combative personality, he was unjustly painted by the press of his day as a failure in his personal life and military career.[3]
References
- ↑ Ioanes, Ellen; Choi, David (June 9, 2020). "The US Army is now open to renaming its military bases — here are 10 of them that still reference Confederate leaders". Business Insider.
- ↑ Fort Bragg Army Base Guide. Retrieved Jan 18, 2021
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Quillin, Martha. How NC Army base came to be named for Bragg. And why a scholar says it’s time to change. June 12, 2020. newsobserver.com. Retrieved Jan 18, 2021
- ↑ Davis, Akilan. The history behind the naming of Fort Bragg as Pentagon considers renaming base. June 12, 2020. abc11.com. Retrieved Jan 18, 2021