US Navy officials renamed two ships with ties to the Confederacy.
the San Diego Union-Tribune mentioned Tuesday:
The American guided-missile cruiser Chancellorsville, which had been relocated to San Diego for many years, was renamed Robert Smalls, in honor of the Civil War-era naval aviator who captured a Confederate ship in 1862 and turned it over to Union forces.
Smalls was born a slave and went on to become a navigator, businessman, publisher, and member of Congress as South Carolina, the state of his birth.
The decision to make the change was due to the previous name, which was in honor of the Battle of Chancellorsville, the event that yielded at heavy losses, according to the American Battlefield Trust.
On the website, it is considered “Gen. Robert E. Lee’s greatest military victory. It was the last battle of Confederate General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, who was mortally wounded by friendly fire.”
according to dateThe battle that took place in 1863 was a “masterpiece of strategy and tactics”, which military leaders continued study and copying:
for every Union TribuneThe ships’ name change was due to the efforts of a congressional-backed committee that worked to erase the Army’s ties to the Confederacy. At the moment, the ship forward has been deployed in Japan.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Secretary of the Navy Carlos del Toro announce USNS renamed Moreyan ocean survey ship to be called the USNS Mary Tharpper Military.com.
“This renaming honors Mary Tharp, the pioneering geologist and oceanographic cartographer who created the first scientific maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor and shaped our understanding of plate tectonics and continental drift,” del Toro stated.
Working alongside a colleague, Tharp found mid-ocean ridges extending more than 40,000 miles around the globe, and “in 1977 the pair produced the first complete map of the ocean floor,” Military.com reports.
The ship’s previous name was after Confederate naval officer Matthew Morey, “considered the father of oceanography,” continued the port.
On Oct, 13 News Now mentioned The Army was preparing to remove “all Confederate signals,” with nine bases receiving permission for the changes:
The nine bases that will undergo name changes in Virginia include Fort Lee, Fort AP Hill, and Fort Pickett, each named after Confederate generals.
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