Work began Tuesday in Memphis, Tennessee, to move the remains of a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader out of the public park that once bore his name. Construction workers began the ...

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Mounted atop a tall, square shaft is a standing figure of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, seen in uniform. He has a beard and moustache and holds a hat in his proper right hand, his proper left hand ...