After 81 years, a Virginia military base sheds its Confederate name

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/21/confederate-name-change-army-base-virginia/

Why the fort was first named for Pickett, a U.S. Military Academy graduate from Richmond who fought for the Confederacy and helped lead an infamous, ill-fated charge at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, is still something of a mystery in these parts.