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Memphis City Council Votes to Dig Up Grave of Confederate General, Sell His Statue
Breitbart ^ | July 11, 2015 | By AWR Hawkins

Posted on 07/11/2015 10:17:23 PM PDT by 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. . .

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1 posted on 07/11/2015 10:17:23 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I want to know what the difference between these idiots and the g-damn Taliban are.

They try to erase history that offends them.


2 posted on 07/11/2015 10:20:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Ghouls. Are they going to drive stakes through their hearts, as well?

How long are we going to allow the certifiably insane to run this country?


3 posted on 07/11/2015 10:21:07 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Sanitized for your protection....

Sad.


4 posted on 07/11/2015 10:21:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Maybe a vote should be taken to dig up Memphis, sans Beale Street, and float it down the Mississippi to sink in the Caribbean


5 posted on 07/11/2015 10:21:37 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: JennysCool

Perhaps it’s time for a little Dixie pushback.


6 posted on 07/11/2015 10:22:25 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Put the statue on eBay or simply offer at a city junk auction. Might help pay from something in the city.


7 posted on 07/11/2015 10:22:34 PM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: Secret Agent Man

8 posted on 07/11/2015 10:22:54 PM PDT by South40 ("I probably identify more as a Democrat." ~Donald Trump)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This must have been a festering sore for the people of Memphis for a long time. Not sure what they will gain from this effort. Peace of mind? A sense of revenge? On thing for sure, this was not spawned by an act of love.


9 posted on 07/11/2015 10:23:53 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Well, this is getting kookier by the moment.

BUT...according to the article it has to do with the University of Kentucky wanting the land. Nothing to do with his service with the Confederacy. (Although that would be sad as well.)

What a sad place we have come to in our history.


10 posted on 07/11/2015 10:24:02 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I thought blacks were really superstitious. You just don’t go around digging up bodies.

Memphis is on my list of places I will not live. It has always given me the heebie-jeebies.


11 posted on 07/11/2015 10:24:22 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“He was known for waging brutal warfare against federal forces in Mississippi and Tennessee.”

If it wasn’t so sick, it would be funny.


12 posted on 07/11/2015 10:25:15 PM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Will #BlackLiesMatter hack their remains into pieces, defile them and throw them at white passerby? Or should I be giving them ideas?


13 posted on 07/11/2015 10:25:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
This is what isis, the taliban and commies do.

The inexorable march towards CW II carries on.

14 posted on 07/11/2015 10:26:05 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: SpaceBar

Past time. Actually all of American history is now threatened by the Left. Just part of their late-inning drive to make the “First Black President” look somehow competent.


15 posted on 07/11/2015 10:27:46 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
He's a fellow Democrat, for cryin’ out loud.
16 posted on 07/11/2015 10:27:54 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: berdie

Tennessee

But still. They couldn’t build around it?


17 posted on 07/11/2015 10:27:56 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

John Derbyshire, please pick up the courtesy phone.


18 posted on 07/11/2015 10:28:03 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: jessduntno

Not that Abraham Lincoln was into polite warfare either...

Why not let it be.


19 posted on 07/11/2015 10:29:01 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Hate Week continues and fear not, idiot liberals, the chocolate ration is being increased as well.


20 posted on 07/11/2015 10:30:22 PM PDT by trubolotta
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