physically buried underneath it. nathan bedford forrest s body and his wife was under that statue in that memphis park. when they started digging after they took down the statue, it turns out, the directions they had weren t exactly right. they weren t directly under the statue. they were kind of under the plaza in front of where the statue had been. it took them a while hunting around to find the caskets. they did finally find the remains. they made a plan to rebury them this fall, a few weeks ago. look what they had to do to get it done. local nbc 5 in memphis, tennessee, got an exclusive look at this. this is astonishing. and, again, remember, this is the confederate general, wealthy slave trader, first grand wizard of the ku klux klan, nathan bedford forrest. all of it, with the remains of a man, reviled and revered and the weight of a city divided
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