Editing Nathan Bedford Forrest (section)

===Specific monuments===
Many memorials have been erected to Forrest, especially in Tennessee and adjacent southern states. Forrest was elevated in Memphis—where he lived and died—to the status of folk hero. Historian Court Carney suggested that "embarrassed by their city's early capitulation during the Civil War, white Memphians desperately needed a hero and therefore crafted a distorted depiction of Forrest's role in the war."<ref name="Carney2001" /> Moreover, a "strong Forrest cult exists among fans of the Lost Cause."<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/blackflagoverdix0000unse |title=Black flag over Dixie : racial atrocities and reprisals in the Civil War |date=2004 |location=Carbondale |publisher= Southern Illinois University Press |isbn=978-0-8093-2546-7 |pages=13}}</ref> Forrest's legacy as "one of the most controversial—and popular—icons of the war" still draws heated public debate.<ref name="Jonsson">{{cite news |last=Jonsson |first=Patrik |date=February 11, 2011 |title=KKK leader on specialty license plates? Plan in Mississippi raises hackles |newspaper=Christian Science Monitor |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0211/KKK-leader-on-specialty-license-plates-Plan-in-Mississippi-raises-hackles |access-date=March 8, 2018 |archive-date=April 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421235809/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0211/KKK-leader-on-specialty-license-plates-Plan-in-Mississippi-raises-hackles |url-status=live }}</ref> {{as of|2007}}, Tennessee had 32 dedicated [[historical marker]]s linked to Nathan Bedford Forrest, more than were dedicated to all three former [[President of the United States|Presidents]] associated with the state combined: [[Andrew Jackson]], [[James K. Polk]], and [[Andrew Johnson]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Loewen |first=James W. |title=Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBZiU_tmRmgC&pg=PA237 |page=237 <!--|quote=Nathan Bedford Forrest stands as the paramount hero on the Tennessee landscape. He gets a bust in the state capitol, a statue in Nathan Bedford Forrest Park in Memphis, obelisks at his birthplace in Chapel Hill and at Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park near Camden, and thirty-two different state historical markers, far more than any other person in any other state in America. Tennessee supplied three United States presidents—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson—but Forrest gets more markers than all three put together. --> |year=2007 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0743296298 |access-date=November 18, 2020 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509180949/https://books.google.com/books?id=vBZiU_tmRmgC&pg=PA237#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> A Tennessee-based organization, the [[Sons of Confederate Veterans]], posthumously awarded Forrest their [[Confederate Medal of Honor (Sons of Confederate Veterans)|Confederate Medal of Honor]], created in 1977.<ref name="Gannett">{{cite news |date=April 26, 2014 |title=Confederate soldiers have their own medal of honor |work=News Leader |agency=AP |url=https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2014/04/26/confederate-soldiers-have-their-own-medal-of-honor/8205749/ |access-date=January 23, 2019 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509180919/https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2014/04/26/confederate-soldiers-have-their-own-medal-of-honor/8205749/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''Public schools:''' High schools named for Forrest were built in [[Chapel Hill, Tennessee]], and [[Jacksonville, Florida]]. The school in Jacksonville was named for Forrest in 1959 at the urging of the [[Daughters of the Confederacy]] because they were upset about the 1954 ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' decision.<ref name="Lawinski2015">{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/florida-high-school-keeps-kkk-founders-name|url-status=live|work=Fox News|title=Florida High School Keeps KKK Founder's Name|first=Jennifer|last=Lawinski|date=May 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618184355/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,448684,00.html|archive-date=June 18, 2013}}</ref> In 2008, the [[Duval County Public Schools#School board|Duval County School Board]] voted 5–2 against a push to change the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville.<ref name="vote" /> In 2013, the board voted 7–0 to begin the process to rename the school.<ref name="vote">{{citation|title=Florida School Board Votes To Remove Name Of Civil War General Tied To Ku Klux|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/florida-high-school-changes-name-2013-11|work=Business Insider|date=November 9, 2013|access-date=November 10, 2013|archive-date=November 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110174531/http://www.businessinsider.com/florida-high-school-changes-name-2013-11|url-status=live}}</ref> The school was all white until [[Duval County, Florida|Duval County]] schools were ordered to be desegregated in 1971,<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Mims v. Duval County School Board |vol=329 |reporter=F. Supp. |opinion=123 |court=United States District Court, M. D. Florida, Jacksonville Division. |date=June 23, 1971 |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/329/123/2596160/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240101023139/https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/329/123/2596160/ |url-status=live }}</ref> but now more than half the student body is black.<ref name="Lawinski2015" /> After several public forums and discussions, [[Westside High School (Jacksonville)|Westside High School]] was unanimously approved in January 2014 as the school's new name. The Forrest Hill Academy high school in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], which had been named for Forrest, was renamed the [[Hank Aaron]] New Beginnings Academy in April 2021 after the [[Atlanta Braves]] baseball star who had died less than three months prior.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Inabinett |first1=Mark |date=April 13, 2021 |title=Hank Aaron replaces Confederate general in school name |url=https://www.al.com/sports/2021/04/hank-aaron-replaces-confederate-general-in-school-name.html |access-date=April 13, 2021 |website=AL.com |publisher=Advance Local Media |ref=ForrestHill |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414012539/https://www.al.com/sports/2021/04/hank-aaron-replaces-confederate-general-in-school-name.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''Middle Tennessee State University:''' In 1978, [[Middle Tennessee State University]] abandoned imagery it had formerly used (in 1951, the school's yearbook, ''The Midlander'', featured the first appearance of Forrest's likeness as MTSU's official mascot) and MTSU president M. G. Scarlett removed the General's image from the university's official seal. The Blue Raiders' athletic mascot was changed to an ambiguous swash-buckler character called the "Blue Raider" to avoid association with Forrest or the Confederacy. The school unveiled its latest mascot, a winged horse named "Lightning" inspired by the mythological [[Pegasus]], during halftime of a basketball game against rival [[Tennessee State University]] on January 17, 1998.<ref name="MTSU2016">{{cite web|title=Forrest Hall: The Evolution of Middle Tennessee's Mascot|url=http://mtsusidelines.com/2016/03/the-evolution-of-middle-tennessees-mascot/|website=mtsusidelines.com|publisher=Sidelines|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407015445/http://mtsusidelines.com/2016/03/the-evolution-of-middle-tennessees-mascot/|archive-date=April 7, 2018|date=March 21, 2016}}</ref> The [[Reserve Officers' Training Corps|ROTC]] building at MTSU had been named Forrest Hall to honor him in 1958, but the [[frieze]] depicting him on horseback that had adorned the side of the building was removed amid protests in 2006.<ref name="Lind2017">{{cite web|author1=J.R. Lind|title=Forrest Hall Name Change Decision Delayed|url=https://patch.com/tennessee/lavergne-smyrna/forrest-hall-name-change-decision-delayed|website=La Vergne-Smyrna, Tennessee Patch|publisher=Patch Media|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224141150/https://patch.com/tennessee/lavergne-smyrna/forrest-hall-name-change-decision-delayed|archive-date=December 24, 2017|date=August 24, 2017}}</ref> A significant push to change its name failed on February 16, 2018, when the governor-controlled [[Tennessee Historical Commission]] denied Middle Tennessee State University's petition to rename Forrest Hall.<ref name="Tamburin2018">{{cite web|author1=Adam Tamburin|title=Commission denies MTSU's request to change the name of Forrest Hall|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/02/16/commission-denies-mtsus-request-change-name-forrest-hall/346998002/|website=The Tennessean|publisher=USA Today Network – Tennessee|access-date=April 15, 2018|language=en|date=February 16, 2018|archive-date=May 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509180944/https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/02/16/commission-denies-mtsus-request-change-name-forrest-hall/346998002/|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:P15138coll6 2722 full - Commemorative scroll from the 11th reunion of the United Confederate Veterans in Memphis, May 1901.jpg|thumb|Commemorative scroll from the 11th reunion of the United Confederate Veterans in Memphis, May 1901]]

'''Mississippi license plate plan:''' A 2011 proposal by the [[Sons of Confederate Veterans]] to honor Forrest with a [[Mississippi license plate]] revived tensions and raised objections from Mississippi NAACP chapter president Derrick Johnson, who compared Forrest to [[Osama bin Laden]] and [[Saddam Hussein]].<ref>{{citation |title=Proposed Mississippi License Plate Would Honor Early KKK Leader |date=February 10, 2011 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/proposed-mississippi-license-plate-would-honor-early-kkk-leader |work=Fox News |access-date=September 3, 2019 |archive-date=September 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903182004/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/proposed-mississippi-license-plate-would-honor-early-kkk-leader |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Jonsson" /> The Mississippi [[NAACP]] petitioned Governor [[Haley Barbour]] to denounce the plates and prevent their distribution.<ref>{{citation |title=Group Wants KKK Founder Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest on License Plate |date=February 10, 2011 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/kkk-founder-gen-nathan-bedford-forrest-mississippi-license/story?id=12888228 |work=ABC News |access-date=June 28, 2020 |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111145658/https://abcnews.go.com/US/kkk-founder-gen-nathan-bedford-forrest-mississippi-license/story?id=12888228 |url-status=live }}</ref> Barbour refused to denounce the honor. Instead, he noted that the state legislature would not likely approve the plate anyway.<ref>{{citation |title=Haley Barbour Won't Denounce Proposal Honoring Confederate General, Early KKK Leader |date=February 16, 2011 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/haley-barbour-wont-denounce-proposal-honoring-confederate-general-early-kkk-leader/ |work=CBS News |access-date=August 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825231656/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20032216-503544.html |url-status=live |archive-date=August 25, 2012}}</ref>

'''Forrest monument in Old Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Alabama:''' In 2000, a monument to Forrest was unveiled in [[Selma, Alabama]].<ref name=Cox2012/> The monument to Forrest in the Confederate Circle section of Old Live Oak Cemetery in [[Selma, Alabama]], reads "Defender of Selma, Wizard of the Saddle, Untutored Genius, The first with the most. This monument stands as testament of our perpetual devotion and respect for [[History of Confederate States Army Generals#Lieutenant general|Lieutenant General]] Nathan Bedford Forrest. CSA 1821–1877, one of the South's finest heroes. In honor of Gen. Forrest's unwavering defense of Selma, the great state of Alabama, and the Confederacy, this memorial is dedicated. [[Deo vindice|DEO VINDICE]]".<ref name="Upton2015">{{cite book |author=Dell Upton |year=2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWHdCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA34 |title=What Can and Can't be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-21175-7 |page=34 |access-date=April 10, 2018 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509180926/https://books.google.com/books?id=yWHdCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> The bust of Forrest was stolen from the cemetery monument in March 2012 and replaced in May 2015.<ref name=Cox2012>{{cite web |last=Cox |first=Dale |title=Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument – Selma, Alabama |date=August 23, 2012 |url=http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/selmaforrest.html |access-date=October 9, 2012 |archive-date=March 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324015832/http://exploresouthernhistory.com/selmaforrest.html |publisher=Exploresouthernhistory.com |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Edgemon |first=Erin |title=Nathan Bedford Forrest bust back in Alabama cemetery |date=March 26, 2015 |url=https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/05/nathan_bedford_forrest_bust_ba.html |access-date=June 29, 2018 |publisher=al.com |archive-date=June 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630000221/https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/05/nathan_bedford_forrest_bust_ba.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''Forrest Park, now Health Sciences Park, in Memphis:''' A memorial to him, the first Civil War memorial in Memphis, was erected in 1905 in a new Nathan Bedford Forrest Park. In 2005, [[Shelby County, Tennessee|Shelby County]] Commissioner Walter Bailey started an effort to move the statue over Forrest's grave and rename Forrest Park. Former Memphis Mayor [[Willie Herenton]], who is black, blocked the move. In 2013, Forrest Park in Memphis was renamed the Health Sciences Park amid substantial controversy.<ref name="Sainz" /> In light of the 2015 [[Charleston church shooting|church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina]], some Tennessee lawmakers advocated removing a bust of Forrest located in the state's Capitol building. Subsequently, then-Mayor [[A C Wharton]]<!-- no dots --> urged that the statue of Forrest be removed from the Health Sciences Park and suggested that the remains of Forrest and his wife be relocated to their original burial site in nearby [[Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee)|Elmwood Cemetery]].<ref>{{citation |last=Brown |first=George |title=Mayor Wharton: Remove Nathan Bedford Forrest statue and body from park |date=June 25, 2015 |website=WREG.com |url=http://wreg.com/2015/06/25/mayor-wharton-wants-nathan-bedford-forrest-statue-and-body-removed-from-park/ |access-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823165158/http://wreg.com/2015/06/25/mayor-wharton-wants-nathan-bedford-forrest-statue-and-body-removed-from-park/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In a nearly unanimous vote on July 7, the Memphis City Council passed a resolution in favor of removing the statue and securing the couple's remains for transfer. The [[Tennessee Historical Commission]] denied removal on October 21, 2016, under the authority granted it by the [[Tennessee Heritage Protection Act]] of 2013, which prevents cities and counties from relocating, removing, renaming, or otherwise disturbing without permission war memorials on public property.<ref>{{citation |title=Nathan Bedford Forrest statue won't be relocated |date=October 21, 2016 |url=http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/tennessee/2016/10/21/nathan-bedford-forrest-wont-be-moved/92510072/ |newspaper=Knoxville News Sentinel |access-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-date=September 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902005704/http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/tennessee/2016/10/21/nathan-bedford-forrest-wont-be-moved/92510072/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The city council then voted on December 20, 2017, to sell Health Sciences Park to [[Memphis Greenspace]], a new [[non-profit corporation]] not subject to the Heritage Protection Act, which removed the statue and another of [[Jefferson Davis]] that same evening.<ref name="CommercialAppeal2017" /><ref name="WashingtonPost2017" /> The Sons of Confederate Veterans threatened a lawsuit against the city. On April 18, 2018, the Tennessee House of Representatives punished Memphis by cutting $250,000 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=250000|start_year=2018}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) in appropriations for the city's bicentennial celebration.<ref name="Lind2018">{{cite news |author1=J. R. Lind |date=April 18, 2018 |title=Tennessee House Punishes Memphis For Confederate Statue Removal |work=Memphis, TN Patch |publisher=Patch Media |url=https://patch.com/tennessee/memphis/tennessee-house-punishes-memphis-confederate-statue-removal |url-status=dead |access-date=September 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418204923/https://patch.com/tennessee/memphis/tennessee-house-punishes-memphis-confederate-statue-removal |archive-date=April 18, 2018}}</ref> On June 3, 2021, the remains of Forrest and his wife were exhumed from their burial place in the park, where they had been for over a century, to be reburied in [[Columbia, Tennessee]]. The exhumation and reburial were the results of a campaign that began after the [[Unite the Right Rally]] in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The effort was spearheaded by Shelby County Commissioner [[Tami Sawyer]], an educator and Memphis native who founded a group called Take 'Em Down 901 to advocate for the removal of Confederate iconography.<ref>Shammas, Brittany (June 3, 2021) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/02/memphis-exhumes-confederate-remains/ "Memphis is digging up the remains of a Confederate general who led the early KKK"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808222343/https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/02/memphis-exhumes-confederate-remains/ |date=August 8, 2021 }} ''[[The Washington Post]]''</ref> After the Forrests' remains were removed from Memphis, they were reportedly buried in Munford, Tennessee<ref>{{Cite web |last=Day |first=Echo |date=September 20, 2021 |title=Exclusive: Were General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife buried in Munford? |url=https://covingtonleader.com/news/exclusive-were-general-nathan-bedford-forrest-and-his-wife-buried-in-munford/ |access-date=November 12, 2021 |website=Covington Leader |language=en-US |archive-date=November 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112111616/https://covingtonleader.com/news/exclusive-were-general-nathan-bedford-forrest-and-his-wife-buried-in-munford/ |url-status=live }}</ref> until their reburial in Columbia in September 2021 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 19, 2021 |title=Sons of Confederate Veterans 'Put to Rest for Eternity' Gen. Nathan Bedford in Columbia, Tennessee |url=https://tennesseestar.com/2021/09/19/sons-of-confederate-veterans-put-to-rest-for-eternity-gen-nathan-bedford-in-columbia-tennessee/ |access-date=November 12, 2021 |website=Tennessee Star |language=en-US |archive-date=November 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112111249/https://tennesseestar.com/2021/09/19/sons-of-confederate-veterans-put-to-rest-for-eternity-gen-nathan-bedford-in-columbia-tennessee/ |url-status=live |last1=Baigert |first1=Laura }}</ref>

'''Nathan Bedford Forrest Day:''' The Tennessee legislature established July 13 as "Nathan Bedford Forrest Day".<ref>{{citation |title=Tennessee Code Annotated 15-2-101 |url=https://advance.lexis.com/documentpage/?pdmfid=1000516&crid=6790d1f7-f975-4c01-9031-fe26695f2a46&title=15-2-101 |year=1971 |access-date=March 3, 2018 |publisher=[[LexisNexis]] |archive-date=March 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304172757/https://advance.lexis.com/documentpage/?pdmfid=1000516&crid=6790d1f7-f975-4c01-9031-fe26695f2a46&title=15-2-101 |url-status=live }}</ref> As of 2019, Nathan Bedford Forrest Day was still observed in Tennessee, though some Democrats in the state had attempted to change the law, which required Tennessee's governor to sign a proclamation honoring the holiday.<ref>Allison, Natalie (July 12, 2019). [https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/12/tennessee-nathan-bedford-forrest-day-gov-bill-lee-signs-proclamation/1684059001/ "Gov. Bill Lee Signs Nathan Bedford Forrest Day Proclamation, Is Not Considering Law Change"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610193456/https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/12/tennessee-nathan-bedford-forrest-day-gov-bill-lee-signs-proclamation/1684059001/ |date=June 10, 2022 }}. ''[[The Tennessean]]''. Retrieved July 12, 2019.</ref><ref>Pitofsky, Marina (July 12, 2019). [https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/452850-tennessee-governor-slammed-online-for-signing-confederate "Tennessee Governor Slammed Online for Signing Confederate General Proclamation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712233603/https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/452850-tennessee-governor-slammed-online-for-signing-confederate |date=July 12, 2019 }}. ''[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]''. Retrieved July 12, 2019.</ref> However, since that time, Governor Bill Lee's administration introduced a bill{{Mdash}}passed by the Tennessee legislature on June 10, 2020{{Mdash}}which released the governor from the former requirement that he proclaim that observance each year and a spokesperson for Governor Lee confirmed that he would not be signing a Forrest Day proclamation in July 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last=Allison |first=Natalie |date=June 10, 2020 |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/10/bill-lee-no-longer-proclaim-nathan-bedford-forrest-day-tennessee/5336437002/ |title=Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee will no longer proclaim Nathan Bedford Forrest Day after legislature passes bill |work=[[The Tennessean]] |access-date=June 29, 2020}}</ref> In June 2020, after black members of the Tennessee House of Representatives unsuccessfully asked it to eliminate a state celebration of Forrest, Representative [[Cameron Sexton]] opined: "I don't think anybody here is truly racist. I think people may make insensitive comments."<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Allison |first1=Natalie |last2=Ebert |first2=Joel |date=June 14, 2020 |title='We're sick of it,' Black Tennessee lawmakers say of long-simmering racial insensitivity at the Capitol |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/15/tennessee-black-legislators-sick-longstanding-racial-insensitivity/5341296002/ |website=The Tennessean |access-date=January 31, 2022}}</ref>

'''Nathan Bedford Forrest bust:''' A [[Bust (sculpture)|bust]] sculpted by Jane Baxendale is on display at the [[Tennessee State Capitol]] building in Nashville.<ref name="UDCM1978">{{cite journal |date=1978 |title=Bust of Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest Is Unveiled |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iU1LAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Baxendale%22 |journal=The United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine |language=en |volume=41–43 |page=250 |quote=The sculptress of the bust, Mrs. Loura Jane Herndon Baxendale, wife of Compatriot Albert H. Baxendale, Jr., had also earlier made available a small bust of the general in limited edition. Camp #28 had engaged the services of the eminent Karkadoulias Bronze Art Foundry of Cincinnati, Ohio, to cast the bust for the Capitol. |access-date=April 10, 2018 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181334/https://books.google.com/books?id=iU1LAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Baxendale%22 |url-status=live }}</ref> Brett Joseph Forrest, a direct descendant of Nathan, spoke in support of the bust's removal.<ref>{{cite news |author=Nikki Junewicz |date=June 23, 2020 |title='I support it:' Nathan Bedford Forrest descendant weighs in on removal of Capitol bust |publisher=WZTV |url=https://fox17.com/news/local/i-support-it-nathan-bedford-forrest-descendant-weighs-in-on-removal-of-capitol-bust |access-date=November 19, 2020 |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127032916/https://fox17.com/news/local/i-support-it-nathan-bedford-forrest-descendant-weighs-in-on-removal-of-capitol-bust |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Brett Forrest |date=June 20, 2020 |title=Nathan Bedford Forrest's descendant: Move the bust from Tennessee's Capitol – Featured letter |work=Tennessean |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2020/06/20/nathan-bedford-forrest-heir-move-bust-tennessee-capitol/3223290001/ |access-date=November 19, 2020 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181336/https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2020/06/20/nathan-bedford-forrest-heir-move-bust-tennessee-capitol/3223290001/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2021 Sexton voted against the removal of the bust of Forrest from the [[Tennessee State Capitol]] and into the [[Tennessee State Museum]], but only one other legislator agreed with him, and the bust was removed.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |date=July 23, 2021 |title=Tennessee to remove bust of Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from state Capitol |url=https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_8863974ac941fb71de943c1fa055cf2b |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131035744/https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_8863974ac941fb71de943c1fa055cf2b |archive-date=January 31, 2022 |access-date=January 31, 2022 |website=CNN}}</ref> Sexton said that he believed the removal of the bust "aligns ... with the teaching of [[History of the socialist movement in the United States|communism]]."<ref name="auto1" />

'''Other monuments and memorials:'''
* [[Forrest County, Mississippi]] is named after him, as is [[Forrest City, Arkansas]].
* [[Obelisks]] in his memory were placed at his birthplace in [[Chapel Hill, Tennessee]], and at [[Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park]] near [[Camden, Tennessee|Camden]].<ref name="Loewen2010">{{cite book |author=James Loewen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zRtFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA258 |title=Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong |publisher=New Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-59558-676-6 |page=258 |access-date=April 10, 2018 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181343/https://books.google.com/books?id=zRtFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA258#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* A monument to Forrest at a corner of Veterans Plaza in [[Rome, Georgia]], was erected by the [[United Daughters of the Confederacy]] in 1909 to honor his bravery for defending Rome from U.S. Army Colonel [[Abel Streight]] and his cavalry.<ref name="Battey1922">{{cite book |author=George Magruder Battey |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofromeflo01batt_0 |title=A History of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America: Including Numerous Incidents of More Than Local Interest, 1540–1922 |publisher=Webb and Vary Company |year=1922 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofromeflo01batt_0/page/381 381]}}</ref>
* The [[World War II]] Army base [[Camp Forrest]] in [[Tullahoma, Tennessee]], was named after him.<ref name="Daddis2002">{{cite book |author=Gregory A. Daddis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgQIRQKkJQ0C&pg=PA89 |title=Fighting in the Great Crusade: An 8th Infantry Artillery Officer in World War II |publisher=LSU Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-8071-2757-5 |page=89 |access-date=April 10, 2018 |archive-date=May 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509181343/https://books.google.com/books?id=CgQIRQKkJQ0C&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> It is now the site of the [[Arnold Engineering Development Center]].<ref name="AEDC2018">{{cite web |title=Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee: An Air Force Materiel Command Test Facility |url=http://www.arnold.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070213-027.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091229205732/http://www.arnold.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070213-027.pdf |archive-date=December 29, 2009 |access-date=April 15, 2018 |website=arnold.af.mil |publisher=U.S. Air Force}}</ref>
* The [[Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue]] in Nashville was particularly notable for its idiosyncratic depiction of Forrest on horseback.
* In August 2000, a road on [[Fort Bliss]] named for Forrest decades earlier was renamed for former [[Base commander|post commander]] Richard T. Cassidy.<ref>{{citation |title=Confederate general's name removed from Army's road |date=August 1, 2000 |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/774778/Confederate-generals-name-removed-from-Armys-road.html?pg=all |newspaper=[[Deseret News]] |access-date=October 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031124255/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/774778/Confederate-generals-name-removed-from-Armys-road.html?pg=all |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 31, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Long |first=Trish |date=June 5, 2010 |title=Soldier turned down film job to fight, die in Korea |newspaper=[[El Paso Times]] |url=http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_15230015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141021054047/http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_15230015 |archive-date=October 21, 2014 |quote=Forrest Road was renamed Cassidy Road in honor of Lt. Gen. Richard T. Cassidy, who commanded Fort Bliss from 1968 to 1971}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Gate Schedule |date=February 22, 1975 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/12709652/ |newspaper=[[El Paso Herald-Post]] |page=8 |location=El Paso, TX |quote=the gate station established on Forrest road is another step in the implementation of a phased traffic control and security program announced last month at Fort Bliss. The Forrest road site was selected for the first of the several gate stations |access-date=December 11, 2015 |archive-date=December 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210182628/http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/12709652/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In 2023, Forrest Street in [[Alexandria, Virginia]], named after Forrest has been proposed by local legislators for renaming.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 13, 2023 |title=Alexandria proposes replacing Confederate street names |work=NBC Washington |url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/alexandria-proposes-replacing-confederate-street-names/3444037/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014171452/https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/alexandria-proposes-replacing-confederate-street-names/3444037/ |archive-date=October 14, 2023}}</ref>