TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on May 12, 2020

Descendants of former Confederate cavalryman Nathan Bedford Forrest filed a motion to dismiss their 2018 lawsuit against the City of Memphis and Memphis Greenspace, the Commercial Appeal reports. The suit’s dismissal means there are no remaining legal conflicts over the 2017 removal of the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue and another of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis. The filing also paves the way for Memphis Greenspace to move forward with proceedings to have Forrest and his wife reinterred. In December, the statue of Forrest was returned to the family and Sons of Confederate Veterans as part of a private agreement between those groups and Greenspace. The statue’s location is currently unknown, but it is expected to be reunited with the bodies.