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. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Nope. Dug up some rebs but that's about it.
How does your wife feel about this?
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/07/nyregion/nazi-survivors-reunite-with-black-liberators.html
Yeah, black troops were in on the liberation of Dachau. Revisionist BS works both ways. You do us no service by giving the finger to the black men who were in our military in WWII.
Good research, and this should be fought at every turn legally. Ultimately if they actually decide to move it, it should be the site of a million patriot sit it.
This is some very strange crap happening in America when monuments start getting torn down.
This is USSR in the 1920s stuff.
This is classic activity of people who would kill you if they could get away with it. Be prepared.
Another historically true statement.
[Memphis is no longer Tennessee. . .Memphis is Massachusetts]
After dark Memphis is more like Oakland, California. In fact Memphis is the third most dangerous city in the U.S. while Oakland comes in second.
http://lawstreetmedia.com/crime-america-2015-top-10-dangerous-cities-200000-2/
Can I copy your tagline? I am so anxious to do so that I am going to asssume that as FRiend in good standing, you will say “yes”, if you feel otherwise, I will change it back. Thank you!
You’re a good man, nathanbedford. Love the handle!
---Major Innes Randolph, C.S.A.
Your words and linked state statute—protecting such memorials—are reassuring. Sadly, the prevailing local attitude may force the Governor’s hand. I can imagine this issue will end up in the courts or the legislature. The legal process might last long enough to attract the rabble to other shiny objects.
Thanks, I wondered where it came from. I now recall hearing it before in the form “I will not be reconstructed and I do not give a damn”.
Donald Trump supports lowering the Confederate Battle Flag too. Wonder if he also agrees with this?
I didn't the Donald weighed in on this. Got a reference?
and let me add my tagline too to the fray:
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