Never Desecrate A Grave

 This was my great great great grandfather

He was the only one in the Union Army of

the American Civil War in our fathers family.

My mothers family were in the Confederate

He died for what he believed

He was also before the Civil War in  the War of 1846 with

Mexico his wife got a pension of service.

I have all the Military records of both wars and they are very

detailed.

This is his grave in the center Payton Alexander

This is General Nathen Bedford Forrest of the Confederate Army

 

This is his and wife's grave

This is history and the city took him and his horse down. I would say

it was desecrated, they are now going to dig them up , that will not change history.

He died for what he believed.

Let me tell you a little about this war that Alexander and Forrest happened 

to cross paths.

My GGG Grandfather was at Fort Pillow On the Mississippi River in

West Tennessee.  There were total white troops 295 and 262 of colored troops.

Forrest's Expedition was in to West Tennessee and Kentucky came across 

this First Battalion, Thirteenth Tennessee Cavalry.

Killed all but a few officers. They took them  to Andersonville Georgia or called

Camp Sumter a Confederate  military prison.

That is where my ggg grandfather died from much suffering.

It was War and they both did what they did for  White and Black to live the good life.  

The Monument should not have been removed.