Fort Rucker was named for a Confederate. The Army post will now be called Fort Novosel, for a Medal of Honor recipient who rescued thousands
Col. Edmund Rucker had fought for the Confederate army under Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and early Ku Klux Klan leader after the Civil War.
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