Memphis City Council voted unanimously to immediately remove Confederate statues from both city
This affects the Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest statues in Memphis.
City
of Memphis tweeted out that residents should expect delays and detours
on streets adjacent to Health Sciences Park near the Union, Manassas,
Madison, and Dunlap area and at Memphis Park on Front.
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I am very sad to learn of his.
ReplyDeleteI don't see how you can sell a public park with graves.
DeleteBrock,
ReplyDeleteI thought TN had laws preventing exactly this from happening. My blood pressure spiked when I saw the photos. Thieves in the middle of the night. I'm beyond words. I actually went to Memphis just to see those very statues. Bedford's monument was spectacular! The details, the magnificent steed, truly a work of art to honor a great man for his actions during and after the war.
I found it interesting that he was saved (Accepting Jesus Christ as his savior) late in his life, just as I did.
Please keep us posted on what we can do to help SCV and any others (Mr.Hill?) that may need our support, both monetary, and physically.
Sincerely, with a heavy heart,
DixieDennis
I thought TN had laws preventing exactly this from happening. My blood pressure spiked when I saw the photos. Thieves in the middle of the night.
DeleteThey are and will be sued, but they cleverly removed them right away figuring that once they were gone there was less chance of them coming back.
Any word about attempts to
ReplyDeletedisinter the graves of Nathan and Mary Ann?
They want to move them to the cemetery where they were originally buried, but hopefully the SCV can stall that.
DeleteI haven't heard where the statues went, but hopefully the SCV will win enough money to move the monuments and bodies to Beauvoir or Elm Springs.
I have not read where the statues went either; how this is
ReplyDeleteomitted is beyond me. Some illegal loophole and they immediately enforced it before it could be challenged. The
best of Memphis - gone - what's left is the plague.
Kind of like the double jeopardy committed in Charlotte which
I will not forget. Just another 'loophole.'
https://infostormer.com/memphis-tears-down-confederate-statues/
I read recently that they were put in storage and thanks.
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