After last year’s Rome City Commission vote the statue of Confederate general war hero William Bedford Forrest was finally removed from Myrle Hill Cemetery Friday.

The statue has been moved to storage and will soon find its new home at the former location of Fort Norton on Jackson Hill.

According to Rome City Commissioner Wendy Davis, “Currently the statue is being housed in an unknown location for safe keeping until we can relocate it to its new home”.

Along with being credited for saving Rome during the Civil War, Bedford’s national legacy stems from his being the founder of the Ku Klux Klan.

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