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CHAPEL HILL, Tenn. — Gene Andrews is the caretaker for Nathan Bedford Forrest’s boyhood home. A man with silver-streaked hair, bright blue eyes and a pair of heavy brown work boots ...
Join us as Steve Phillips and Robert McDaniel take their metal detectors to the former home of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. From musket balls to 1800s coins, the relics they recovered ...
According to CBS affiliate WTVF, a 25-foot statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest has overlooked a freeway ... Sears was taken for a leg amputation-the home has long since been destroyed by Interstate ...
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest died in 1877 ... There are more monuments to Forrest in his home state of Tennessee than all three of the state’s presidents—Andrew Jackson, Andrew ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and early ... on to their new resting place which will be closer to his boyhood home, his birthplace, in middle Tennessee,” Mr. Millar said in ...
On the grounds of the Elm Springs plantation in southern Middle Tennessee, the Sons of Confederate Veterans reinterred the remains of Nathan Bedford ... home at Elm Springs.” In May of 2020 ...
There was controversy with Nathan Bedford Forrest considering his past as a ... General Claudius Sears was taken for a leg amputation-the home has long since been destroyed by Interstate 65 ...
It is also home to 31 monuments to Confederate general and native son Nathan Bedford Forrest – more than the state’s three presidents (Jackson, Andrew Johnson and James K. Polk) combined.
Nathan Bedford Forrest has been featured prominently ... "Contrary to his expressed determination to remain quietly at home, Forrest soon embraced the Ku Klux Klan, assuming the role of the ...