NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After more than two decades, the controversial Nathan Bedford Forrest statue along Interstate 65 has been removed. This comes one year after Bill Dorris — the statue owner and the ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest is by far the most controversial figure in Tennessee history. That's why a statue of him was removed from the hallway of the Tennessee State Capitol, and why his remains were ...

State officials removed the sculpture of confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader, Nathan Bedford Forrest, from the State Capitol in Nashville and sent it to the Tennessee State Museum. By ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee sent a letter today to members of the Tennessee Historical Commission in support of removing the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust from the ...

Dr. Court Carney, professor in Stephen F. Austin State University’s Department of History, authored and is set to publish the book, “Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory ...

People of Tennessee, let's talk frankly about Nathan Bedford Forrest. Here's the thing. At best, he was a man of his times — savvy businessman, genius military leader, social club connoisseur and ...

Gov. Bill Haslam supports discontinuing Tennessee license plates that feature the Confederate battle flag and removing the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the Tennessee statehouse. "I feel like ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) – The Tennessee Historical Commission has rejected Middle Tennessee State University’s attempts to rename a campus building named after a Confederal general tied to the Ku ...

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If you ever try to interfere with me or cross my path again, you do so at the peril of your life. – Bob Dylan, "Floater" In the damp spring of 1863 just outside Rome, Georgia, 450 Confederate ...