Posted on 07/07/2015 5:35:59 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The Memphis City Council began the process Tuesday that could result in the removal of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s statue and body from a public park.
The City Council unanimously approved a resolution calling for the removal of the graves of Forrest and his wife from Health Sciences Park at Union and Manassas, and an ordinance to remove a statue of Forrest from the park received the first of three readings.
The resolution about the graves still has to receive approval from Chancery Court and Forrest’s descendants, while the ordinance about the statue also requires approval from the Tennessee Historical Commission, which next meets in October.
“It’s very disturbing to want to dig up the graves of one of our military veterans and his wife,” said Lee Millar, of the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Millar and a handful of other advocates for leaving the statue and graves attended the meeting to voice their support for Forrest, whom they said has incorrectly been identified as the founder of the Ku Klux Klan.
“I feel this is racist and it’s fascist,” said David Hoxie, 65, of Memphis. “When you obliterate the heritage of one section of the community, you obliterate the heritage of the whole community.”
Council member Edmund Ford Jr. said Elmwood Cemetery offered to move the bodies back to their original plot in the cemetery at no cost to the city. . .
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The move to Northern Mississippi started in the 80s. The only way I’d live in Germantown or Cordova would be if they built a wall around it.
Memphis is a black city. I don’t like driving through it.
Which brings me back to an earlier thought; if it's OK to purge MY history, why can't we purge Mexican flags and street names because of the tidal wave of deadly illegals that Obama and company want to welcome into the Estados Divisos?
Didn’t some millionaire try to take over the park a few years ago for a cancer memorial? I think the same dude took over a park in downtown Dallas. Richard Bloch of H&R Block? Quick Google suggests that it may have been 1999 when he and the city teamed up to try to do away with Forrest.
Memphis is a black city. I don’t like driving through it.
One thing is certain is that it won’t get better.
I wouldn’t want to drive through that town at night. I wouldn’t want to have to stop to get gas or stop for any reason.
Interesting...
Monument inscription, unveiled 1905
“Those hoof beats die not upon fame’s crimson sod,
But will ring through her song and her story;
He fought like a Titan and struck like a god,
And his dust is our ashes of glory.”
(Written by Mrs. Virginia Frazer Boyle)
Nathan Bedford Forrest Historical Society website
Confederate soldiers are officially American Veterans by Act of Congress. By order of Public Law 85-425, May 23, 1958 (H.R. 358) 72 Statute 133 states – “(3) (e) for the purpose of this section, and section 433, the term ‘veteran’ includes a person who served in the military or naval forces of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, and the term ‘active, military or naval service’ includes active service in such forces.” A Confederate Veteran should therefore be treated with the same honor and dignity of any other American veteran.
Monuments to Confederate soldiers and symbols of their service, such as the battle flag, are presently being defaced or taken down due to alleged racism. A distinction should be made between bad use as by the shooter Dylan Roof and OK use as when flying at a southern soldier cemetery.
one good thing the city council is doing.
This monument wasn’t put up directly after the Civil War. By the time it was put up the KKK was a terrorist org murdering people in Memphis. It was honoring the KKK.
Confederate Robert E. Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee See the section "After the war."
2nd paragraph.
Lee's prewar family home, the Custis-Lee Mansion, was seized by Union forces during the war and turned into Arlington National Cemetery. The family was compensated in 1883.[105]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee#cite_note-105
[105] In December 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court returned the property to Lee's son because it had been confiscated without due process of law. In 1883, the government (United States) paid the Lee family $150,000. "Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial". Arlington National Cemetery.
See: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore-the-Cemetery/History/Arlington-House
See the section "George Washington Parke Custis"
8th paragraph.
Arlington National Cemetery was established by Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, who commanded the garrison at Arlington House, appropriated the grounds June 15, 1864, for use as a military cemetery. His intention was to render the house uninhabitable should the Lee family ever attempt to return. A stone and masonry burial vault in the rose garden, 20 feet wide and 10 feet deep, and containing the remains of 1,800 Bull Run casualties, was among the first monuments to Union dead erected under Meigs' orders. Meigs himself was later buried within 100 yards of Arlington House with his wife, father and son; the final statement to his original order.
And when this is done all the blacks will stop killing each other and committing violent crime in Memphis. I’m sure Chicago and Detroit are bastions of peace and harmony now that Dukes of Hazzard reruns are off the air.
Did you see this?
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