Fort Benning will get a new name. Here are some of the possibilities
The commission tasked with renaming Fort Benning and other Department of Defense assets that commemorate the Confederacy is now deliberating on what the Army post near Columbus will soon be called.
The Naming Commission received more than 4,600 suggestions for Fort Benning’s new name through an online submission period that ended Wednesday.
Military installations and other Department of Defense-owned assets must be renamed following the passage of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. The move came on the heels of calls for racial equality and the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.
The years-long renaming process is a step closer to the finish.
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He may have been Union, but he was hated even by many in the North for his brutality and scorched earth brand of subjugating civilians as well as the enemy army. He was genocidal in his war on Native Americans after the war when assigned to "rid the railroad construction of the Indian scourge."
HELL NO. In this, I'd join the most "southerner of southerners: to fight that name. Who the hell would suggest such a thing? 
towards Native Americans.
I can NOT believe you would say such a thing. Good Gawd. I'm no Southerner but this man was a monster. Whether you believe so during his civil war service, he most certainly was towards Native Americans AFTER the war. Horrible, horrible man.
"Poetic about his march to the sea?" OMG! You admire his scorched earth tactics against civilians? He's a very big reason why we have so much never-ending southern resentment. Hell no.
Put me on your ignore list.
What the Hell? It really isn’t all that difficult to do. 
There are two people on this earth whose opinions of me matter to me and again I understand that this may come as a surprise to you. You are not one of the them.
If you want to pick a fight, go bother someone else. I’m not taking your repeated bait.
Just trying to educate you that support for someone who committed N. American genocide is horrific.Maybe he is an ancestor. We all look hard enough and many of us will find a detestable ancestor in our heritage, acknowledge it and move on. Maybe you are not open to being so educated or just don't care. At least others spoon-fed nonsense about his supposed heroism (regardless of how one views his actions in the civil war) will know the truth.
Here is who you are supporting. William Tecumseh Sherman (ironically his middle name was that of a peacemaker Indian Chief). And, no this isn't my thoughts, it is historical fact:
https://www.history.com/news/shermans-war-on-native-americans
Native Americans Have General Sherman to Thank for Their Exile to Reservations
The Civil War hero brought his scorched-earth policy to the Plains—and wiped out Native Americans’ food supply.
Erin Blakemore
When William Clark and Meriwether Lewis’ famous expedition reached the Great Plains in 1806, the crew couldn’t believe their eyes. There, ranging across the prairies in groups that moved up to 30 miles per hour, were gigantic herds of buffalo so large they waylaid the travelers for hours on end. “The moving multitude…darkened the whole plains,” theywrote.
Seventy years later, buffalo—and the Native American tribes the explorers encountered—would be almost eliminated on the Great Plains thanks to another revered American, William Tecumseh Sherman.
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Buffalo were a critical part of that plan. Sherman’s job was to use the U.S. Army to protect the transcontinental railroad and secure mining interests in territory traditionally owned and settled by Native Americans. The plan was to force Native Americans onto reservations, seize their land and protect the settlers who moved there. In a series of campaigns now known as the western Indian Wars, the military clashed with tribes intent on protecting their lands and their way of life.
Destroying the buffalo meant destroying Native Americans, so Sherman honed in on the animals. As long as the buffalo roamed, he wrote to fellow general Philip Sheridan in 1868, Native Americans would follow them. “I think it would be wise to invite all the sportsmen of England and America…this fall for a Grand Buffalo hunt,” hewrote, “and make one grand sweep of them all.”
By 1873, buffalo were nearly extinct. “Where there were myriads of buffalo,” wrote U.S. Army colonel Richard Irving Dodge, “there were now myriads of carcasses. The air was foul with a sickening stench, and the vast plain…was a dead, solitary, putrid desert.” Yet Sherman still argued that the United States needed to keep killing buffalo to subjugate Native Americans.
It worked: By the early 20th century,only 325 buffalo remained in the entire country. Historian snow attribute nearly three quarters of Native American population decline to westward expansion. Between 1800 and 1890, the Native American population dropped from around 600,000 to just 228,000.
By the time Sherman retired in 1884, he had succeeded in forcing Plains Indians onto reservations. As historian David D. Smitswrites, “With the mainstay of their diet gone the Indians had no choice but to accept a servile fate on a reservation where they could subsist on government handouts.” And in the words of the Sioux leader Sitting Bull, “a cold wind blew across the prairie when the last buffalo fell—a death-wind for my people.”
Ironically, Sherman himself was named after a Native American peacekeeper, Tecumseh. The Shawnee chief formed and led a large confederacy of tribes that fought the United States during the War of 1812. Americans admired Tecumseh’s ability to bring together different tribes and fight with what they saw as noble intentions.
Like Tecumseh, Sherman was a savvy leader—but unlike the chief, he fought not to preserve Native American culture, but to destroy it.
Aren't you proud of your genocidal monster?
He was a 5-star General in the U.S. Army and a two-term President.
Can't go wrong with that.
I think, though, that names need to be selected to honor the best of our military past in order to inspire it for the future.
Fwiw, naming a military base for a man who was lynched -- in a dreadful betrayal of all it is supposed to stand for -- would commemorate the worst rather than inspire the best and honor those who served honorably. It would also fail to define and exemplify fulfillment of the base's purpose.
This marker was erected near where Private Hall was last seen. Except by his murderers. He was 19.
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