MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The remains of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife have been removed from Health Sciences Park in Memphis, where they had been interred since the early 20th century. The remains ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After more than two decades, the controversial Nathan Bedford Forrest statue along Interstate 65 has been removed. This comes one year after Bill Dorris — the statue owner and the ...

Work began Tuesday in Memphis, Tennessee, to move the remains of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader out of the public park that once bore his name. Construction workers began the ...

People of Tennessee, let's talk frankly about Nathan Bedford Forrest. Here's the thing. At best, he was a man of his times — savvy businessman, genius military leader, social club connoisseur and ...

As the debate over Confederate statues and monuments heats up across the country and in Memphis, it is intensifying in the state’s capital as well. The Tennessee Capitol Commission voted Friday 7 to 5 ...

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Today in news that makes you go “Why did it take Black death for this to happen?” the Tennessee Historical Commission voted 25-1 to remove a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest—the first grand wizard of ...

On Friday, the Tennessee Historical Commission denied Memphis City Council’s application to relocate the statue and remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the slave-trade profiteer and first Grand Wizard ...

Memphis, Tenn., city leaders unanimously voted on Tuesday night to exhume the body of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader who is buried in the city’s Health ...

Mounted atop a tall, square shaft is a standing figure of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, seen in uniform. He has a beard and moustache and holds a hat in his proper right hand, his proper left hand ...

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