The Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue is a 25 feet (7.6 m) equestrian statue of Confederate Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Now removed, the statue was formerly located on a narrow strip of private land near Nashville, Tennessee, and was visible from Interstate 65 at 701D Hogan Road. The work, by attorney and amateur sculptor Jack Kershaw, was unveiled in 1998.[1] Widely mocked by national media, it drew decades of controversy and vandalism, and was removed on December 7, 2021. Critics said the work's distorted facial features bore little resemblance to Forrest himself.[1] Forrest was depicted with a sword held high in his right hand, while mounted on a rearing horse flanked by Confederate battle flags.
The statue's owner, Nashville businessman William C. “Bill” Dorris, died in November 2020, and left the statue in his will to the Battle of Nashville Trust, a historical non-profit which preserves and maintains portions of the Battle of Nashville battlefield. According to the trust, the statue was moved from the site and disassembled with no plans to remount or display it.
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announced plans to remove the statue of Sam Davis (1999), which were executed a few days later. NathanBedfordForrestStatue near Interstate 65 was removed...
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Tennessee, and raised an army tasked with eliminating the threat that NathanBedfordForrest's cavalry was posing to the area. On June 10, 1864, Wilkin fought...
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his testimony before Congress, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, NathanBedfordForrest was likewise evasive about the organization's membership rolls....
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