After spending the last 21 months as Fort Liberty, the 160,000-acre military installation in Cumberland County, North Carolina, which is home to 10% of the entire United States Army, is now Fort Bragg ...
Fort Liberty, the nation’s largest Army installation, officially reverted to its former name, Fort Bragg, on Friday. The ...
By Chris Cameron Reporting from Fort Bragg, N.C. The sprawling Army base in North Carolina had long been named for Braxton Bragg, an incompetent Confederate general who owned enslaved people.
The short-lived existence of Fort Liberty came to an end Friday. Fort Bragg is officially known as Fort Bragg again.
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NORTH CAROLINA, USA — The short-lived existence of Fort Liberty is set to an end Friday when the nation’s largest Army installation officially returns to its former name: Fort Bragg.
Fort Bragg. Christened a century ago in honor of Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, the post in North Carolina was renamed in 2023 amid a drive to remove symbols of the Confederacy from public spaces.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The short-lived existence of Fort Liberty is set to an end Friday when the nation’s largest Army installation officially returns to its former name: Fort Bragg.
The renaming ceremony comes nearly two years after the Department of Defense officially changed Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty.
Bragg, of Nobleboro, Maine, trained at the North Carolina post, according to his daughter, Diane Watts. The Army said in 2023 that changing the name to Fort Liberty would cost $8 million.