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Another Confederate general has been put out to pasture, this time replaced by a pioneering female surgeon who won a Medal of Honor for treating Union troops and was briefly a prisoner of war in the rebels' hands.
Fort A.P. Hill is now Fort Walker, named for Dr. Mary Elizabeth Walker, the only woman to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
U.S. Army officially renamed Fort A.P. Hill, its garrison in Caroline County, after Mary Edwards Walker during a redesignation ceremony Friday.
The move comes after seven other installations have been scrubbed of their namesakes honoring Confederate figures who seceded from the U.S.
U.S. Army officially renamed Fort A.P. Hill, its garrison in Caroline County, after Mary Edwards Walker during a redesignation ceremony Friday.