TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 20, 2023

The Private Confederate Soldier Monument will remain in one of Nashville’s most-visited public parks after the Tennessee Historical Commission on Friday rejected the city’s efforts to move it. According to Tennessee Lookout, the 24 voting members said parks officials failed to meet the burden of showing there was a need to move the bronze statue “based on historical or other compelling public interest.” The life-size monument, unveiled in 1909, sits across from the Parthenon in Nashville’s Centennial Park. Nashville’s attorney Macy Amos has argued that the monument may not be a “memorial” at all, which would remove it from the commission’s oversight though next steps were unclear.