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12. Couple of these worth noting

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 10:49 AM

Jul 2015

Fort Calhoun, Nebraska was probably named after Calhoun when he served as the Secretary of War.

Cleburne, though one of the CSA's most effective generals, was always excluded by the in crowd in the CSA because he advocated freeing the slaves and arming them.

Some of the others, who served during the war, were honored by their states for their post war political career antt not because they were CSA soldiers.

When Arlington County was formed, the former Custis estate owned by Lee's wife had been renamed Arlington National Cemetery (confiscated during the war) and was the largest body of land in the county. What name would you have chosen for the county?

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Places named after Confederate Historical Figures in the United States [View all] MineralMan Jul 2015 OP

I'm waiting for the US military base... Bigmack Jul 2015 #1

I did not know there was a tradition of naming bases after *enemies* of the nation. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2015 #2

Someone freeped this wiki page mia Jul 2015 #3

Good - the wiki page has been cleaned up. mia Jul 2015 #4

nah, still freeped (or freeped again) fishwax Jul 2015 #5

wants DU women to involve themselves with "real men" mia Jul 2015 #6

Really? Did you grab a screen shot? MineralMan Jul 2015 #8

Go to edit history, the changes will be there Brother Buzz Jul 2015 #14

I did, and put a link in a post downthread. MineralMan Jul 2015 #15

To the wiki freeper mia Jul 2015 #7

Here's a link that shows all of those revisions: MineralMan Jul 2015 #9

My mom's side ties to Texas-Oklahoma (mom, grandpa born in Texas) JonLP24 Jul 2015 #11

I want to take Hoover of the list of named places JonLP24 Jul 2015 #10

Couple of these worth noting 1939 Jul 2015 #12

I just posted the list. I made no comment about it. MineralMan Jul 2015 #13

I lived in Ocala in the 1980s. markonthemark Jul 2015 #16