Tuesday, June 1, 2021

SCV begins exhuming Nathan Bedford Forrest's remains, removing them from Memphis

Via SHNV

The Sons of Confederate Veterans work to exhume the remains of General Nathan Bedford Forrest from Health Sciences Park Tuesday, June 1, 2021. The remains will be transferred to the National Confederate Museum, on private land in Columbia, Tenn.

A construction crew Tuesday began removing the empty monument pedestal under which the remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife Mary Ann are buried. 

The removal of the pedestal is the first part of removing the remains themselves, which ultimately will be reinterred in Columbia, Tennessee at the National Confederate Museum at Elm Springs. 

Lee Millar of the Sons of Confederate Veterans told The Commercial Appeal that the removal began Tuesday morning and would take two to three weeks. He declined to identify the contracting crew doing the work. 

More @ Commercial Appeal

4 comments:

  1. So much for "Rest In Peace". The situation has clearly gotten out of hand. I will not be satisfied until the statue of "Bojangles" is removed from its sacred place in Richmond and moved to Detroit.

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  2. How about the monument to Lenin in Seattle?
    (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin_(Seattle))

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    1. Thanks and I thought it had already been taken down.

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