Should US military bases named after Confederates be renamed?

"In 2013, 44% of all military recruits came from the South region of the U.S. despite it having only 36% of the country’s 18-24 year-old civilian population.
Some of the lowest rates of state-by-state enlistment are in New England and the Northeast, Maine notwithstanding. The Northeast of the U.S. was the most underrepresented region of the country for recruitment in 2013: Despite having 18% of the 18-24 year-old civilian population only 14% of new enlistments came from this area."

Outside the beltway.

It has always been a known fact that the military is made up of more conservative members than liberals. Numbers don't lie; the South East, South and Southwest provides more than their fair share of military recruits.

When the Liberal states of the North, Northeast and West step up and provide their fair share of military recruits, then maybe we can start to have a discussion of changing the names of these posts.

It's a good thing that President Lincoln, Generals Grant and Sherman didn't feel the same way about southern Soldiers that many that have not studied the Civil War History feel today or reconciliation may not have nearly so successful.

As someone that was involved in training new recruits for the Army over most of my 40 year military career I can tell you that aside from the issue of slavery, the values and traits that Confederate Soldiers displayed during the Civil War are almost identical to the same values that the Army is looking for today; Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity and Personal Courage. The cause may have been unjust, but the dedication to duty cannot be denied.

Also, keep in mind that none of these posts existed during or shortly after The Civil War but for the most part came about between World War I and World War II.

And if you want to go down that road of comparing Soldiers of the Confederate Army and their cause to Soldiers of Nazi Gemany and Imperialistic Japan, then in my opinion you don't know squat about military history.

It's interesting for the first time in many years of U.S. History its identity is being challenged and the Government is internalizing on issues that many have left alone in the "Gray area".  The reaction of many citizens and Soldiers are seemingly indifferent because of the lack of identity in culture and awareness of history. Many elders of the family trees have passed so the current generations don't get to hear the impact of the confederate views and what they stood for or any matter at that.  I say that the names of these Generals should remain because America's history should remain in tact; the good, the bad and the ugly. 

Yes, they should be. Rename them after MOH recipients from junior to senior. Too little is remembered of these junior ranked heroes after a couple of years.

This is stupid. Who educated and trained these leaders and generals? Where did their military careers begin?

Wow, good question. I think displaying the Confederate flag anywhere but a museum is inappropriate because it stands for racism in many people's eyes; however, if you are going to remove the name of Confederate officers from military installations, you should remove the union officers names, too. Otherwise, we are saying only the winners get the keep their names on anything. It's part of our history. If we follow this logic, there are a number of places and monuments that would be stripped or removed completely. Soon we will be erasing part of the history that made this country what it is and we will forget. And you know what they say about those that forget history. They are bound to repeat it.

Confederacy aside, can we talk about the awesome beards these guys had?!

Not no, but hell no. Most, if not all, of them were graduates of U.S. military academies and U.S. service members prior to the civil war. At the time, the U.S. was The United States Are America, not The United States of America; in other words, membership in the United States was supposed to be voluntary, not mandatory. In their minds, and rightfully so, The United States was not their country; the state in which they lived was their country, much like the European Union, and they were honorably fighting to defend their country's rights.

A few thoughts/comments/questions to "should US military bases named after Confederate be renamed?
- Should George Washington not be honored as the "father of our nation" because he was a slave owner?
- Should our founding fathers be condemned because they made the political decision to categorize blacks as 3/5ths of a person within our Constitution?
- Should our school children read more current literary authors because they are multi cultural at the expense of classical authors because they are predominantly white males?
- Any nation or culture must know three things in order to survive and thrive. I think these three things are: where they came from, where they are at, and where they are going. I think the answers to the original question and my questions are obvious. We should not cover up who we are or where we came from as a culture or a nation. The risk if we do is that we will not know who we are and where we are going.

To those who think that these generals betrayed their oaths, I would point out that up until 1862, Army officers swore the following oath:
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I, _____, appointed a _____ in the Army of the United States, do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the rules and articles for the government of the Armies of the United States.
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A key nuance is that the United States of America is a plural term ("them") instead of a singular union. Back in those days, the emphasis was on United *States* -- many states united rather than a single nation-state, nor any allegiance required to the Constitution of the United States.

It would be wrong to understate the importance of this direction of allegiance towards the state. Just prior to the Civil War, John Brown was convicted of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia after U.S. Marines under the command of then-Brevet Colonel Robert E. Lee defeated his raid on Harper's Ferry.

It is also worth noting that the question of whether or not States have a right to withdraw from the United States has never been settled in a court of law, so the question of where an Army officer's loyalty should have gone when his State was no longer one of the United States is technically quite debatable.

No, I didn't know they were named after confederates to begin with except Fort Lee with is obvious.