Do you have a reference for that?
Fort Myer in Virginia and the former Fort McClellan in Alabama would have been exceptions.
Fort Campbell (KY/TN) is named for William Bowen Campbell, former TN governor who opposed secession, who was very briefly a Union general during the War.
Fort Campbell (KY/TN) is named for William Bowen Campbell, former TN governor who opposed secession, who was very briefly a Union general during the War.
No reference. The practice was discussed as part of legislation to return captured Confederate Battle flags to the their states. Myers near Arlington cemetery started as a Union fort built as part of the defenses of Washington DC. Ft. Eustis in Virginia was named for an Army officer that died in the 1840s. Ft McClellan was established during the first World War. But generally speaking Army posts in the old Confederacy are named for Officers of the Confederate Army.
Another part of that, is that those officers were generally from the states that the army posts were established in.
Gordon was from Georg1a. Bragg from North Carolina. Lee, A.P. Hill, Picket, all from Virginia.