Tennessee removes the statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in southern Davidson County. 

The statue was erected in 1998 alongside flags from each state in the Confederacy in Oak Hill, near Interstate 65 in view of passing cars. This is another, in a long list of others, that a Confederate statue has been removed in response to increased civil unrest following a rough summer of racial injustices nationwide. 

Forrest was a Confederate cavalry general with ties to the Ku Klux Klan, who amassed a fortune as a plantation owner and slave trader in Memphis before the Civil War. 

According to an article from Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN, the Forrest statue had been vandalized several times, with pink paint in 2017 and again in October 2020. 

The statue was situated on private property owned by a Bill Dorris, who passed away earlier in the year, and willed the three-acre property to The Battle of Nashville Trust, Inc. 

In a release from the trust, it states that Dorris’ property will remain open but has not released any further details on the statue’s location or condition. Also, Dorris’ will has three other properties with pre-Civil War installments that have been placed in a trust to preserve.