Memphis Commercial Appeal 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. The remains are in what is now known as Health Sciences Park. It was previously known as Forrest Park and the soon-to-be-removed pedestal bore a statue of a mounted Forrest, the infamous Confederate general, slave trader, and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan.