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Confederate generals

Williamson County Voted To Remove Confederate Flag From Seal A Year Ago. They’re Still Awaiting A Decision From The State.

Paige Pfleger

September 14, 2021

Advocates for altering the seal worry the delay could be a sign of even more obstacles ahead.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Confederate generals, Heritage Protection Act, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Williamson County

After Decades-Long Fight, Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Bust Is Out Of The Tennessee Capitol

Paige Pfleger

July 22, 2021

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For decades, activists pushed for the bust of a slave trader and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan to be removed from the state capitol, but a 2013 law made the process lengthy and arduous. On July 22, 2021, the majority of the state building commission voted to move the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest to the Tennessee State Museum, and it was gone the next morning.

Filed Under: History, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Bill Lee, Brenda Gilmore, Confederate, Confederate generals, KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Tennessee State Capitol

Remains Of Confederate General Exhumed For Relocation To Middle Tennessee

Chas Sisk

June 14, 2021

The group responsible for relocating the monument of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest say the remains of Forrest and his wife are gone from a Memphis park.

Filed Under: History, WPLN News Tagged With: Confederate, Confederate generals, KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest, slavery

Tennessee Historical Commission Votes To Relocate Nathan Bedford Forrest Bust

Paige Pfleger

March 9, 2021

The bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest at the Tennessee State Capitol
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After decades of protests, the Tennessee Historical Commission voted Tuesday to relocate a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state capitol.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Confederate generals, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Tennessee State Capitol

What Can Modern Day Business Leaders Learn From Confederate Failures At The Battle of Franklin?

emily west

September 26, 2014

A new job training from Vanderbilt has Tennessee business leaders learning from the mistakes of Confederate generals in the Civil War.

Filed Under: History, WPLN News Tagged With: Battle of Franklin, Business, Civil War history, Confederate generals

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