NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — On Thursday the Tennessee Capitol Commission voted to recommend the removal of the Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol to the Tennessee State Museum.
Forrest was a Confederate General and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan who later left the supremacist group.
News 2 reached out to the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate for a response to the decision.
The attorney representing the Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 215 and the great-great-grandsons of Nathan Bedford Forrest sent this statement.
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