Commission calls for stripping Robert E. Lee of honors at West Point

That contains Lee Barracks, the place cadets are housed, a day care middle, a street, a gate and a portrait that hangs in Jefferson Hall of Lee sporting his Confederate uniform.

POLITICO first reported in June that the well-known portrait can be singled out by the bipartisan fee for removing.

“The Commissioners do not make these recommendations with any intention of ‘erasing history,” its new report launched on Monday states. “The information of the previous stay and the commissioners are assured the historical past of the Civil War will proceed to be taught at all service academies with all the standard and sophisticated element our nationwide previous deserves.

“Rather, they make these recommendations to affirm West Point’s long tradition of educating future generations of America’s military leaders to represent the best of our national ideals,” it provides.

Other Confederate generals who will now not be honored on the campus embrace P.G.T. Beauregard, who led the assault on Fort Sumter that marked the opening of the Civil War, and William Hardee, one other former superintendent who fought for the Confederacy.

At the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., the fee calls for renaming Buchanan House, the superintendent’s quarters honoring Adm. Frank Buchanan, a frontrunner of the Confederate Navy, in addition to an engineering constructing named for Cmdr. Matthew Maury, an astronomer and a Confederate naval officer.

However, the fee determined that Confederate artifacts contained in museums don’t fall beneath its jurisdiction, “since the purpose of these museums is to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret historically significant artifacts pertaining to that base, mission, or other focus.”

It additionally doesn’t name for the removing of any grave markers for the Confederate fallen. “No grave markers at the United States Military Academy or the United States Naval Academy — nor at any base under the remit of the Commission — would be considered for removal,” the report says.

A ultimate report back to Congress is due by Oct. 1 on the remaining belongings at different DoD installations that weren’t coated within the first two experiences. Lawmakers and the Pentagon chief should approve the adjustments earlier than they’ll go into impact.