SELMA, Ala. (AP) A Confederate monument that was stolen and became the object of an odd ransom scheme is back in an Alabama cemetery where it stood for nearly 130 years now glued to the ground for good measure but who took the chair remains in dispute. A Louisiana man charged in […]
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The remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife are being removed from a Memphis park
On Tuesday, work began on exhuming the remains of General Nathan Bedford Forrest from Health Sciences Park. (CNN)Crews have started to remove the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from a Memphis park where a monument of him once stood.
The decision to move their remains was decided last year after the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a non-profit organization of male descendants of Confederate veterans, agreed to drop a pending lawsuit against park owners, according to CNN affiliate WREG.
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Board members governing the country’s largest Confederate monument voted Tuesday to relocate the site’s Confederate flags and open a museum exhibit detailing the Ku Klux Klan’s involvement in the creation of the site, which displays a mountainside carving of Confederate officials.
The Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which oversees Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta, will move the flags out of a highly trafficked walking trail after criticism over the site’s memorialization of the Confederacy.
“We’ve just taken our first step today to where we need to go,
said Rev. Abraham Mosley, who Republican Gov. Brian Kemp appointed in April to become the board’s first black chairman following the Tuesday vote, according to the