"A journalist's memoir-plus-reporting about modern-day conflicts over Southern monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate hero and original leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as a personal examination of the legacy of white supremacy through the US today, tracing the throughline from Appomattox to Charlottesville"-- In Down Along with That Devil’s Bones, journalist Connor Towne O’Neill takes a deep dive into American history, exposing the still-raging battles over monuments dedicated to one of the most notorious Confederate generals, Nathan Bedford Forrest. Through the lens of these conflicts, O’Neill examines the legacy of white supremacy in America, in a sobering and fascinating work. When O’Neill first moved to Alabama, as a white Northerner, he felt somewhat removed from the racism Confederate monuments represented. Then one day in Selma, he stumbled across a group of citizens protecting a monument to Forrest, the officer who became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. O’Neill sets off to visit other disputed memorials to Forrest across the South, talking with men and women who believe they are protecting their heritage, and those who have a different view of the man’s poisonous history. Provided by publisher.

Prologue --part 1 : Forrest lost and found--Selma : A pronouncement of war -- The First Battle of Selma -- Monument is now headless -- Deo vindice -- From Civil War to Civil Rights -- Part 2 : Forrest in the age of Confederate reproduction--Murfreesboro : Laying Forrest low -- We have a choice -- The marshmallow wonderland of the past -- Palliatives -- A letter to the editor -- The way of Forrest -- More Gump than Bedford -- A flag in war -- part 3 : This is us--Nashville : At the foot of the ugliest Confederate memorial -- Same as it ever was -- The resistance -- This is us -- part 4 : Down along with that devil's bones--Memphis : A symbol of everything we are fighting every day -- The dead bury their dead -- The dead bury their dead again -- The mountaintop -- A preponderance of goodwill -- Remember Fort Pillow -- The weight -- "Yeah but..." -- Re-membering -- Epilogue : The two-face god--Montgomery.