Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

The Army officially restored the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an ...

The Army is restoring the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old ...

A renaming ceremony took place Wednesday morning at Fort Benning to officially restore the post’s name—this time in honor of ...

(Brynn Anderson/AP) FORT ... of Henry L. Benning, a former Georgia Supreme Court justice who vocally supported secession and served as a Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War, had adorned ...

The Army is restoring the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old corporal who fought in World War I rather than a Confederate general.

FORT BENNING ... The name of Henry L. Benning, a former Georgia Supreme Court justice who vocally supported secession and served as a Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War, had adorned ...

“We can never win,” sighs Vaise, who volunteered at the fort as a teenager and has been an employee since 1994. “The Civil War is the American Iliad. The War of 1812 is a 19th-century ...

So what is left of Fort Stevens may ... but the Army Chief of Staff, Henry Halleck, ordered Maj. Gen. Quincy Gillmore to take charge in the emergency; but the Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton ...

“Henry Johnson’s legacy is important,” Sheehan ... the U.S. military's highest recognition, in 2015. Years later, Fort Polk, which was named after a Civil War Confederate general, was renamed after ...