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handle is hein.crs/crsmthmbcdx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CRS INSIGHT Confederate Names and Military Installations August 22, 2017 (IN10756) Related Authors * Barbara Slazar Torreon Barbara Salazar Torreon, Senior Research Librarian (btrr 7-8996) Nese F. DeBruyne, Senior Research Librarian (ndebmyneacrs loc ov, 7-8096) After the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, surrounding the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue, some Members of Congress have expressed interest in military installations named after Confederate leaders, and the process for renaming these bases. Currently, the Department of Defense (DOD) does not have a review process to reevaluate the naming of specific installations. Instead, each military department has its own naming convention that is summarized below. A list of Navy ships named after Confederate commanders and a battle is also included. According to the Army Center of Military History, Camp Beauregard and Forts Benning, Bragg, Gordon and Lee were all established during World War I. The other forts (Hill, Hood, Pickett, Polk and Rucker) were established in the 1940s. The U.S. Army Center website has a brief history on the process for Naming Army- Insallation. U.S. Military Bases Named in Honor of Confederate Military Leaders There are 10 major Army installations named after Confederate Civil War generals located in the former states of the Confederacy. They are: FortRu ckr (Gen. Edmund Rucker) in Alabama; Fort Benning (Brig. Gen. Henry L. Benning) and EorLGorDon (Maj. Gen. John Brown Gordon) in Georgia; Camp Beaurgard (Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard) and EQA Palk (Gen. Leonidas Polk) in Louisiana; Eo Brgg (Gen. Braxton Bragg) in North Carolina; FEt HQ d (Gen. John Bell Hood) in Texas; and Eor A -PHill (Gen. A.P. Hill), E rL (Gen. Charles Lee) and Fort Pket (Gen. George Pickett) in Virginia.