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The remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife are being removed from a Memphis park
On Tuesday, work began on exhuming the remains of General Nathan Bedford Forrest from Health Sciences Park.
(CNN)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 decided last year after the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a non-profit organization of male descendants of Confederate veterans, agreed to drop a pending lawsuit against park owners, according to CNN affiliate WREG.