Crews begin removing pedestal above Nathan Bedford Forrest's remains at Memphis park
Plans for the removal of the pedestal and relocation of the couple’s remains were announced earlier this year.
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Plans for the removal of the pedestal and relocation of the couple’s remains were announced earlier this year.
Follow CNN 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...
Police investigating $50K worth of artifacts stolen from Memphis River Museum Police investigating thefts from Mud Island museum By Janice Broach | January 5, 2021 at 10:22 PM CST - Updated January 5 at 10:22 PM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Curators at the Mississippi River Museum on Mud Island want to find tens of thousands of dollars worth of artifacts that were apparently stolen last year. The theft at the museum on Mud Island happened in October but is just now coming to light in a police report we obtained. According to the report, $50,000 worth of artifacts were stolen. “I just think i...