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Posted: 2022-08-30T19:14:51Z | Updated: 2022-08-30T19:14:51Z

A commission appointed to study the names of landmarks and memorials at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy found a handful of Confederate dedications that should be removed, relocated or renamed, according to a report submitted to Congress on Monday.

That includes numerous references to the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. At West Point, in New Yorks Orange County, Lees name is affixed to five assets, including a preschool.

Lees armies were responsible for the deaths of more United States soldiers than practically any other enemy in our nations history, the report notes.

The names of lesser-known Confederate officers adorn other buildings that were also identified for renaming. That includes Beauregard Place, named for Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, and Hardee Place, named for Gen. William J. Hardee.

The report identifies Beauregard with particular disdain, noting that he had long been an ardent supporter of enslavement, secession and rebellion. And while Beauregard did serve as superintendent at West Point, partially explaining his commemoration at the school, he only held the job for five days, after which he was fired, joined the Confederacy, and considered fleeing overseas in the wake of the Civil War.

Ironically, one of the most egregious examples identified by the commission falls outside its purview. A marker mounted outside Bartlett Hall at West Point bears the words Ku Klux Klan below a relief of a hooded figure carrying a rifle.