Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth indicated that he would revert the name of military bases back to their previous names that had been changed initially due to their connections to the Confederacy. Under the Biden administration,

Fort Novosel had been Fort Rucker, named for Col. Edmund Rucker, a brigade commander in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.