Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
The American Civil War ended with the surrender of the secessionist army on permissive terms. The U.S. government abandoned enforcement of Constitutional mandates in the southern states in 1887. As the U.S. military built a standing, segregated Army, it named 10 major U.S. Army bases -- and ten thousand properties in the Defense Department inventory -- for Confederates who took up arms against the U.S. government. Did allowing the 'lost cause' myth to propagate assist war termination or merely drag the process out these 157 years? Kori Schake is a member of the Commission renaming those bases.
The American Civil War ended with the surrender of the secessionist army on permissive terms. The U.S. government abandoned enforcement of Constitutional mandates in the southern states in 1887. As the U.S. military built a standing, segregated Army, it named 10 major U.S. Army bases -- and ten thousand properties in the Defense Department inventory -- for Confederates who took up arms against the U.S. government. Did allowing the 'lost cause' myth to propagate assist war termination or merely drag the process out these 157 years? Kori Schake is a member of the Commission renaming those bases.
