KILLEEN, Texas -- Fort Hood likely will be renamed Fort Cavazos after a blue-ribbon commission recommended that the Confederate-named Army base receive a new name along with eight other military bases ...

Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. There are a lot of people out there who think renaming bases previously named after Confederate generals and other prominent Confederates is ...

For a fleeting moment this month, Fort Hood became Fort Cavazos. The Army post in Central Texas, named for John Bell Hood, a Confederate general, is set to be “redesignated” Fort Cavazos in honor of ...

2014-07-26T18:00:08-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/7d1/20140726180556003_hd.jpgStephen Hood talks about his book, John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and ...

A Kentuckian versus a Texan, a doctor’s son versus a cattle rancher, a secessionist or an integrationist: Which military figure should Texans idolize? Today marks the first anniversary of the U.S.

Leader of the fabled Texas Brigade, John Bell Hood was highly regarded among the ranks of Confederate generals. Despite sustaining wounds at Gettysburg and losing a leg at Chickamauga, Hood continued ...

No doubt about it, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood, leader of the acclaimed Texas Brigade, was one tough son-of-a-gun. As a cavalry officer at Fort Mason in the Texas Hill Country before the war, the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Army post in Killeen, Texas, was renamed again, for the second time in as many years. A ceremony held on Monday marked the official redesignation of the post to Fort Hood. In May ...

Detour to Disaster was originally published posthumously in 2007 as A Slight Demonstration. Former Air Force officer Carpenter, a life-long resident of Decatur, had devoted over a dozen years to ...

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