With Eisenhower renaming, Army’s 100+ years honoring Confederates ends

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With Eisenhower renaming, Army’s 100+ years honoring Confederates ends
By Davis Winkie
Friday, Oct 27
A statue of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, as seen October 27, 2023, during a renaming ceremony in his honor at Fort Eisenhower, Georgia. (Davis Winkie/Staff)

FORT EISENHOWER, Ga. — When this installation’s former namesake invaded Maryland, the U.S. Army shot him five times.

Despite receiving five bullets at Antietam in 1862 — and three additional wounds in other battles — as he rose from captain to major general in the Confederate army during the Civil War, former slaveowner John Brown Gordon survived to become the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia.

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