Two other Confederate officers in the commission’s crosshairs were West Point grads P.G.T. Beauregard and William Hardee. The panel called for Beauregard Place and Hardee Place to be renamed.

But unlike most colleges, West Point has its own campus-wide wake-up call. This cannon is fired at 6:30 every morning for reveille, the ceremonial bugle call, and coincides with the raising of the ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is starting to remove Confederate statues and symbols from its campus, in compliance with a federal order formally set in motion by the Department of ...

A view of the West Point campus before a football game between the Army Black Knights and the Liberty Flames on September 8, 2018, in West Point, NY. Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images.

West Point was not the only installation under scrutiny by the congressional commission. It also recommended that eight other installations address symbols of the racist past.

West Point moves to vanquish Confederate symbols from campus The academy will remove a stone bust, a portrait of Robert E. Lee and a trio of bronze panels over the holiday break in a move to ...

Our drive from the Road Scholar program at Warwick, N.Y., to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was over a scenic, curving, one-lane road that gave us the feeling we were moving in an ...

West Point will remove Confederate symbols from its campus The storied military academy will take down likenesses of Robert E. Lee as part of a Department of Defense directive to do away with ...

The United States Military Academy at West Point will start removing Confederate symbols from its campus, including taking down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point will start removing Confederate symbols from its campus in New York state, including taking down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee.