Republican Gov. Jeff Landry directed the Louisiana National Guard on Monday to restore “Camp Beauregard” as the name of its training center in Pineville.

But instead of honoring Confederate Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard as it was intended when the center opened in 1917, it will be named for the general’s father, Capt. Jacques Toutant Beauregard, a member of the Louisiana militia who fought in the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, a defining moment in the U.S. victory over Britain in the War of 1812.

“We’re naming our premier training installation after an American hero and patriot who fought for the freedom of the city of New Orleans, the State of Louisiana, and the United States of America against a foreign invader,” Maj. Gen. Thomas Friloux, adjutant general of Louisiana’s National Guard, said in a news release.

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