WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Fort Pillow National Battlefield Park Study Act, legislation that would direct the Department of the Interior to conduct a resource study to determine whether the location of an infamous massacre of Black Union soldiers in the waning months of the Civil War qualify it as a National Park Service site. Ft. Pillow … [Read more...] about Congressman Cohen introduces act to study, recognize massacre of Black soldiers at Ft. Pillow
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Exclusive: Were General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife buried in Munford?
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?
