Bodies of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and His Wife Dug Up and Moved From Memphis Grave

GP ^ | June 20, 2021 | Cassandra Fairbanks

[White Lives Matter]

The remains of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife Mary Ann Montgomery have been dug up as part of the lefts efforts to remove all markers and monuments to the historic cancelled.The bodies are now being held in an undisclosed location until they can be brought to their new resting place at the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ National Confederate Museum in Columbia, Tennessee.

[clearcarbon]

"i keep reading about symbolism. what have they actually achieved?

The marxist pigressives are ghouls.

[mass55th]

"Presidents too."

James Monroe and John Tyler are buried there, as is President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis.

Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Westminster Burial Ground, Baltimore, Maryland.

[the OlLine Rebel]

We can all help a little bit by supporting the Mt Vernon Ladies Assoc.

It is purely private and thus has a MUCH better chance of protecting one important piece of our great history.

Meanwhile the gov sites are dominated by US-hating liberals and are turning every site into PC woke sites and will probably dig up Jefferson themselves.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

I think we need to start adding names to WHO is authorizing the digging. I mean who are the people who decided this ... their names, their offices, etc. It is always the “they” ... who are “they?!”

[GingisK]

That is a good article. Great post!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Glad you liked it. It’s a real problem when 2/3 of us like the way things are and want nothing more than to be left alone.

[DoodleBob]

Ping

[jmacusa]

I detest the Confederacy and everything it stood for.

I don’t believe in desecrating a grave.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

The confederacy is SLIVE AND WELL in DC, yet they are digging up dead people to forget they ever lived on the planet these people are truly INSANE!!

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

SLIVE = ALIVE. OOPS

[wardaddy]

So what...
That klan was a despise to the Union occupation , carpetbaggers, and disenfranchised whites while Republican radicals foisted in office often illiterate blacks

For power...pure power...like stealing elections

What would you have done..at least Forrest and Wheeler and Hampton didn’t just roll over..

Fellow southerners who’d just bleed an F lot hoped someone would lead against the radicals hell bent to destroy the white shouts and subjugated blacks on a new Republican plantation

Forrest quit when he thought they’d brought much of GOPe radicals to heel and enough violence....he’d always been amenable to black rights

Up to a point

He favored keeping slave families together....mainly for religious reasons though he was surely no pious

He freed and paid slaves who joined his cavalry....

And so on..

Very few outside civil war buffs really know Forrest....sure won’t find the truth on talk radio or most GOPe orgs much less leftist woke bullshit elsewhere

I’m ambivalent on the first klan

Don’t know much about the second yankee Midwestern klan but their anti Catholic and anti Jewish bent looks bad enough

And did not care at all for the modern klan..my own family....paternal line opposed them...at risk I might add

Sam Bowers and Ray Killen didn’t make idle threats
There ive qualified enough...

[wardaddy]

They have allies on this forum....this very thread

Do not believe a damn word any of them say

They are allied with these folks

I will elaborate for you on open thread if you don’t already know

[wardaddy]

And people on this very forum

[wardaddy]

I’m in favor of moving all CSA heroes or any American hero....any color

Locked in ghetto graves from the pilgrims to Virginians to founders and so forth

My kids gg great uncle is buried in downtown Jackson Miss....Greenwood cemetery

I’d be happy to have him on my ten acres

Barksdale....

Andrew Jackson is in a safe place at Hermitage...

Virginia keeps going Hollywood cemetery is in thier sites

They’ve moved on past southerners now

Lincolns tomb

Grant tomb was terrible how NYC left it....I hope it’s better than. When I lived near it

[wardaddy]

Don’t underestimate them

One thing is they’ve moved on past CSA a bit

Onto founders and pilgrims and Jamestown and anything white and once respected too

We were just the low hanging fruit

I tried to tell south haters here but hatred too intoxicating for them....

And they still parse ....they are collaborative

Anyhow....Lee’s grave at Washington and Lee has to be moved

Jackson square renamed

Alamo...gotta go or at least put up a counter monument to POC

Custer ....maybe vilified enough already

Jefferson and Washington and Jackson and Lincoln....in their sights ...it makes no sense honest Abe but they cherry pick his racist polemics

Insanity

It’s power politics ...woke left and neocons in bed together ...same folks stole our election

Are moving graves and tearing down statues...

[jmacusa]

Dear you’re posting to yourself LOL.( I know what you mean) :-)

[jmacusa]

Oh. Yankees created the Klan. Not Southern Democrats.

Uh huh. Good to know.

[wardaddy]

Yankees were the bulk of the second Wilson era klan...do try to keep up...this one ...I see anything but Old Glory.....it spran up after Birth of a Nation film ......

In its second resurgence, the Klan moved beyond just targeting blacks, and broadened its message of hate to include Catholics, Jews and foreigners. The Klan promoted fundamentalism and devout patriotism along with advocating white supremacy. They blasted bootleggers, motion pictures and espoused a return to "clean" living. Appealing to folks uncomfortable with the shifting nature of America from a rural agricultural society to an urban industrial nation, the Klan attacked the elite, urbanites and intellectuals.

Fatal-flood-KKK-Percy-LOC.jpg LeRoy Percy's passionate speech at the Klan's recruitment session convinced towns people to support a resolution to condemn the Klan. Their message struck a cord, and membership in the Klan ballooned in the 1920s. By the middle of the decade, estimates for national membership in this secret organization ranged from three million to as high as eight million Klansmen. And membership was not limited to the poor and uneducated on society's fringes. Mainstream, middle-class Americans donned the white robes of the Klan too. Doctors, lawyers and ministers became loyal supporters of the KKK. In Ohio alone their ranks surged to 300,000. Even northeastern states were not immune. In Pennsylvania, membership reached 200,000. The Klan remained a clandestine society, but it was by no means isolated or marginalized.

In the 1920s, the Klan moved in many states to dominate local and state politics. The Klan devised a strategy called the "decade," in which every member of the Klan was responsible for recruiting ten people to vote for Klan candidates in elections. In 1924 the Klan succeeded in engineering the elections of officials from coast to coast, including the mayors of Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. In some states, such as Colorado and Indiana, they placed enough Klansmen in positions of power to effectively control the state government. Known as the "Invisible Empire," the KKK's presence was felt across the country.

But when the Klan came to recruit in the town of Greenville, Mississippi, LeRoy Percy, moved to keep the Klan out of his town. His passionate speech at the Klan's recruitment session convinced townspeople to support a recolution to condemn the Klan.

[jmacusa]

My grandfather was an Irish Catholic who kicked the shit out the Klan when they tried moving into NJ.

Wilson was a Democrat.

[jmacusa]

The second Klan was organized in Georgia in 1915. The first Klan formed during Reconstruction with the intention of over throwing Republican state governments by intimidating freed blacks from voting. Are you attempting to support these bastards?