Nathan Bedford Forrest died at the age of 56 years old in 1877, from complications of diabetes. He was born in 1821 and lived to the age of 56 years. During his lifetime, he would have lived just a ...

If Nathan Bedford Forrest was some great friend to black Memphis later on in life, why don’t black Memphians like him? Let's look at the case of the white Baxter brothers here in Nashville ...

Moreover, the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest lived on in many Southern locales — shepherded, not coincidentally, by groups made up of the children of Confederate veterans.

Nathan Bedford and Mary Ann Forrest will be buried, for a third time each, in private land at the National Confederate Museum at Elm Springs in Columbia, Tennessee.

Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest died in 1877, yet the slave trader and Klan leader still haunts the American landscape. There’s a statue of him overlooking a cemetery in Rome, Ga ...

Crews have started to remove the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from a Memphis park where a monument of him once stood. The decision to move their remains was ...

MEMPHIS, TN - AUGUST 13: Protesters attend a rally protesting against the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest Park in front of a statue bearing his likeness August 13, 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee.

In a July 6, 2015 blog article published on the Huffington Post titled, “Nathan Bedford Forrest vs. the Ku Klux Klan,” Tures wrote, “But even this Forrest critic can admit that the Klan ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest's bust in the Tennessee State Capitol has been a source of contention since the KKK leader's tribute was installed in 1978.

"Certainly Nathan Bedford Forrest does not represent the values of Tennessee," Gilmore said. "I'm pleased that those people on the commission had enough courage to respect the voice of the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — State lawmakers grappled Tuesday with a couple of controversies involving Nathan Bedford Forrest, a man born almost 199 years ago. One issue is the statue of the slave-trader ...

The contentious Nathan Bedford Forrest statue that stood along Interstate 65 in Nashville for more than two decades was taken down Tuesday. The move comes just over a year after the owner of the ...