A U.S. Army base originally named after a Confederate general, then renamed Fort Liberty, will revert to the name Fort Bragg.

"The Americans were shooting at him because he had a German ... new names for nine military bases, one of which was Fort Bragg. The report says its original namesake, a slave-owning plantation ...

"The Americans were shooting at him because he had a German ... Presidential campaign talking point: Fort Bragg's name change Confederate General Braxton Bragg's name was recently stripped from ...

Fort Bragg was a reference to confederate Gen ... Bragg as "having a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers and for losing battles." "Between the Mexican War and ...