While Fort Pickett is now known as Fort Barfoot, there are two more U.S. military bases in Virginia named for people with ties to the Confederacy that are set to be redesignated and the date that for to happen has been announced for one of them.
Fort Lee will be redesignated as Fort Gregg-Adams on April 27.
The fort will honor two Black officers: Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams.
Gregg enlisted as a private in the still segregated U.S. Army in January 1946 and spent the next 35 years climbing the ranks before retiring as a three-star general in 1981.
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