Summarized by the Alliance for Fort Gordon
Published June 27, 2025
To learn more about the new heroic U.S. Army namesake of Augusta’s Fort Gordon, try looking 1,200 miles north.
A statue in the Maine town of Lincoln, population 4,800, pays tribute to the community’s best-known native: Medal of Honor recipient Master Sgt. Gary Ivan Gordon.
Recently the Pentagon directed seven U.S. military installations stripped of their original Confederate-inspired namesakes to revert to their previous names but with new honorees.