There are 8 article(s) tagged sons of confederate veterans:

• September 2021

  • Rubble from Forrest exhumation mars Health Sciences Park

    The Forrests’ reburial ceremony on Sept. 18 in Middle Tennessee may come sooner than restoration of Health Sciences Park.

    By Tom Bailey September 02, 2021

• June 2021

  • Forrest remains removed from Health Sciences Park

    The announcement of the removal of the remains was made Friday, June 11, in Health Sciences Park, where Forrest and his wife had been reinterred for more than 100 years after originally being buried in Elmwood Cemetery.

    By Bill Dries June 12, 2021

• November 2020

  • Motion filed to begin process of moving Forrest remains

    No location has been decided on for the re-interment, according to SCV leader Lee Millar. But court documents suggest the remains and equestrian statue of Forrest removed from Health Sciences Park could be bound for a new National Confederate Museum in Columbia, Tn. 

    By Bill Dries November 20, 2020

• August 2020

  • Sons of Confederate Veterans claim State Capitol Commission has no authority over Forrest bust

    A Sons of Confederate Veterans lawsuit against the state contends the State Capitol Commission has no authority over the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest and that a vote to relocate it should be “null and void.”

    By Sam Stockard August 19, 2020

• December 2019

  • Confederate monuments sent to descendants, SCV

    Two years to the week that Confederate monuments were removed from three city parks, the statues have been turned over to descendants or the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the city announced Tuesday.

    By Bill Dries December 17, 2019

• June 2019

  • Greenspace taking wait-and-see approach to sell Forrest statue in wake of court ruling

    There is no immediate move to sell Confederate monuments removed from two Memphis parks until all appeals by Sons of Confederate Veterans, which is contesting the sale of the parks and the statues' removal, are exhausted. 

    By Bill Dries June 05, 2019

  • Appeals court sides with Memphis over sale of Confederate monuments

    The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled the Sons of Confederate Veterans organization has no case to preserve two Memphis parks and the Confederate monuments removed from them in 2017.

    By Bill Dries June 04, 2019

• March 2019

  • Kyle hopes to restrict lawsuits funded by sale of Confederate tags

    Legislation would prohibit proceeds from the sale of specialty tags from being used to pay for lawsuits against local or state governments.

    By Sam Stockard March 02, 2019