Known as the 'Fighting Bishop', he blundered early on by ordering troops into neutral Kentucky - prompting the border state to ask for Northern help and bringing it closer into the Union fold. Robert E. Lee (pictured) inherited slaves from his father-in-law in 1857Fort Lee, 25 miles south of Richmond, is named after Confederate general-in-chief Robert E. Lee.
Most of the 10 Confederate generals either owned slaves or their families did. Braxton Bragg’s history. The City of Fort Bragg in Mendocino County, population 7,000, is named for Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, who is accused of keeping more than 100 slaves.
He was also rumored to be a 'Grand Dragon' of the Ku Klux Klan, and one historian said it was 'almost certain' that he was head of the KKK's Georgia branch. After the war Rucker became an industrialist in Alabama, working as president of a railroad firm and director of an iron and steel company.
Leonidas Polk (pictured) is thought to have had as many as 400 slaves on plantationsThis base was named after Leonidas Polk, who was both a bishop in the Episcopal Church and a major-general in the Confederate Army. Polk was killed in action in 1864 while fighting at Pine Mountain, Georgia. Although he had no actual military experience, he had trained with Jefferson Davis at West Point and used this connection to become a major-general in the Confederate army.Polk also supported the secession of the Southern states by withdrawing his own ecclesiastical diocese from the national Episcopal Church.
On one occasion he gave orders to procure thousands of slaves - demanding the 'services of 4,000 negroes' for his army.
He died in 1875.
It was named after Confederate general Braxton Bragg in 1918.Born in North Carolina, Bragg moved to Louisiana in 1856 where he and his wife bought a sugar plantation for $152,000 - which came with 105 slaves. His father owned more than 100 slaves, and tax records from 1863 show that he owned at least 89 slaves himself along with more than 3,000 acres of land. Benning also made explicit that Georgia was fighting for slavery, saying secession had come from 'a deep conviction that a separation from the North was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery'.
However, he escaped justice from a military tribunal after Ulysses Grant - a former West Point classmate - intervened to protect him.He was also saved by President Andrew Johnson's 1866 proclamation that the rebellion was over, allowing him to return from exile in Canada.
One officer called him him 'self-willed, arrogant and dictatorial,' while another soldier labelled him 'obstinate, haughty and authoritative'.
Lincoln had offered Lee the command of Union forces in 1861, but Lee defected instead and became a general in the Confederate army. However, he was criticized for his ineffective performance on the first two days of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Born on a sugar plantation outside New Orleans, Beauregard had grown up in a slave-owning household and later rented slaves for himself while in the military. In 1857, his father-in-law left him 189 slaves who worked on the estates of Arlington, White House, and Romancoke.
His father Thomas Bragg owned slaves and made a living by contracting the construction of various buildings in the state.
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He died in 1879. In 1860, the census showed him owning one 14-year-old girl as a slave, while his father owned four slaves. www.stationgossip.com/2020/06/the-traitor-generals-who-fought-to-save.html Cleburne made a revolutionary proposal to Army Commander Gen. Braxton Bragg: Arm Southern slaves and have them fight for their freedom with the Confederate army. He died in 1875. George Pickett (pictured) came from a family which owned dozens of slaves This National Guard facility is named after George Pickett, the Confederate general responsible for Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg. Some were recaptured and beaten on Lee's orders. Gordon supported secession and owned slaves as a young man, investing in coal mining operations in Georgia and Tennessee. Henry L. Benning (pictured) owned at least 89 slaves on his 3,000 acres of land The home of the United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning was named in 1917 for plantation owner and Confederate general Henry L. Benning. John Bell Hood (pictured) was from a neutral state but chose to fight for the South Fort Hood is the Army's 'premier installation to train and deploy heavy forces', and is named after Confederate general John Bell Hood. His Virginia family owned 42 slaves in 1830 and 23 slaves in 1850, when his father was recorded as having a wealth of $50,000.
The city council is debating Monday, June 22, 2020 whether to put the renaming issue …