Edmund Rucker today denounced demands from Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen that Fort Novosel revert to ... “Rucker ...

named in honor of Confederate Army Colonel Edmund W. Rucker. The base was redesignated Fort Novosel in 2023 as part of an effort to scrub names honoring Confederate troops. The name was selected ...

Edmund Rucker, a brigade commander in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The base’s current ... congressman wants Fort Novosel changed to its original name, but Alabama Secretary of ...

Colonel Rucker, a Confederate officer during the Civil War, along with eight other army soldiers, had their names removed from bases in the South in 2023 under former Defense Secretary Lloyd ...