Memphis City Council Votes to Dig Up Grave of Confederate General, Sell His Statue

Breitbart ^ | July 11, 2015 | By AWR Hawkins

[Brad from Tennessee]

On July 7 the Memphis City Council voted unanimously to exhume the body of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from its 110 year resting place and move it to another location.

The body of Forrest’s wife will be exhumed as well.

According to Local Memphis, the council voted to exhume Forrest’s remains from Health Sciences Park on Union Avenue. They plan to sell a statue of Forrest as well–they are thinking of “selling the statue to anyone who wants it.”

Forrest was a businessman who become wealthy in the cotton trade prior to the Civil War. He abandoned that to fight federal forces once the war commenced, eventually becoming a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army. He was known for waging brutal warfare against federal forces in Mississippi and Tennessee.

The Forrest family has made clear that they are “solidly opposed to digging up the graves and moving them any place.” They are opposed to moving the statue as well. . .

[catfish1957]

Hey CVA.....

The next time you into an argument with that idiot jmacusa, ask him if he has finally learned the difference between the CBF and the Stars and Bars (lol)

[catfish1957]

Hey Memphis politcal goons and ghouls.

From RWN via supported website:

Just for the record:

CONFEDERATE Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines that fought in the Civil War were made U.S. Veterans by Act Of Congress in 1957. Reference U.S. Public Law 85-425, Section 410, Approved 23 May 1958.

This made all CONFEDERATE Army, Navy, Marine Veterans equal to U.S. Veterans. Additionally, under U.S. Public Law 810, approved by Congress on 26 Feb 1929, the War Department was directed to erect headstones, and recognize CONFEDERATE grave sites as U.S. War Grave Sites.