Were Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife buried in Munford this summer? On Monday, July 19, a group of well-dressed men and two white hearses were reportedly seen in the back of Helen Crigger Cemetery. Three days later The Leader found two freshly-covered gravesites under a Juniper tree with a granite bench in between them. There were gravemarkers bearing … [Read more...] about Exclusive: Were General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife buried in Munford?
Civil War
Tipton County in the Civil War: North Alabama
Editor’s note: Due to a print error our correspondence columns were inadvertently omitted from this week’s print issue. By Russell Bailey, Tipton County Historian Colonel Thomas H. Logwood detailed Captain H. T. Hanks, Company C., 15th Tennessee Cavalry to prepare the Federal prisoners captured at Athens for their movement west and south, during the afternoon of Sept. 24, … [Read more...] about Tipton County in the Civil War: North Alabama
In 1895, the Confederate monument in Covington was unveiled – here’s the story of how it came to be
Editor’s note: While searching through The Leader’s archives recently we found the original story published when the county’s Confederate monument was unveiled on the square. Dated May 29, 1895, the paper included an illustration of the monument and more than 2,600 words about the event. The story appears below, unedited and in its entirety, with the purpose of providing more … [Read more...] about In 1895, the Confederate monument in Covington was unveiled – here’s the story of how it came to be
There are plans in the works to ask for the removal of Covington’s Confederate statue
With his sword drawn, he’s been standing in memory of Confederate soldiers for more than a century. But will he be proudly standing 100 years from now? Not if Matthew Pryor has anything to say about it. “I think it represents a painful past, it brings a lot of ill feelings back,” he said. “I think it needs to go.” Pryor was one of the organizers of the Unity Walk in Covington … [Read more...] about There are plans in the works to ask for the removal of Covington’s Confederate statue
