Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument is Coming Down in Memphis

Can I buy it?

I would literally give the City of Memphis 3-5 BTC for the statue, provided they store it somewhere before I can replace it.

They can have the statue I'll take the tax cuts.

They are about to pick that up with a truck crane

I hope that crane falls over.

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I hope he haunts them

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You will never find a bigger admirer of Forrest than me but the man should be buried in Elmwood Cemetery. That is where he wanted to be buried with his soldiers and that is where he originally was buried.

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Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument is Coming Down in Memphis.

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This one I can understand, taking into account his relationship with the KKK.

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I don't see anything redeemable about him.

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He liberated my hometown from the vengeful command of a Russian national who became a general in the Union Army. The path he took is, to this day, 'Forrest Street'.

Definitely not the best fella otherwise, though.

Not the founder but a Grand Wizard.

Shocking that a majority African American city wouldn't want a statue of him.

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don't see anything redeemable about him.

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Then you are ignorant.

His story is one of redemption. Read some more about him.

Slave trader before the war, founder of the KKK after, and the slaughtering of surrendering black solders at the Battle of Fort Pillow. If anyone deserved to be called "white devil", it would be he.

But after that things get a little tricky, because he is generally considered to be one of the most interesting and brilliant characters of the Civil War by CW buffs. From illiteracy to one of the most successful Generals of the Confederacy.

Why doesn’t anyone actually read history?

‘After only a year as Grand Wizard, in January 1869, faced with an ungovernable membership employing methods that seemed increasingly counterproductive, Forrest issued KKK General Order Number One: "It is therefore ordered and decreed, that the masks and costumes of this Order be entirely abolished and destroyed".[68]

In August 1874, Forrest "volunteered to help ‘exterminate’ those men responsible for the continued violence against the blacks". After the murder of four blacks by a lynch mob when they were arrested for defending themselves at a BBQ, Forrest wrote to Tennessee Governor John C. Brown, offering "to exterminate the white marauders who disgrace their race by this cowardly murder of Negroes".[69]