The city of Memphis is deciding what to do with a century-old, 9,500-pound equestrian statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
There are several interested parties, including the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas.
Myron Lowery, a Memphis alderman, said all offers will be considered, including the one from the Knights.
"But we're not at that point yet," he said.
Lowery drafted an ordinance to condemn the statue and remove it from the Memphis Health Sciences Park, previously known as Bedford Forrest Park. The ordinance will be on its third and final reading when the council meets Tuesday.
Forrest was a lieutenant general for the Confederate Army and a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. He died in 1877.
In 2013, the Memphis City Council changed the names of three parks that honored the Confederacy or men associated with it, including Bedford Forrest Park.
Jason Robb, a Harrison lawyer, faxed a letter to the Memphis City Council on Wednesday saying the "Knights Party" was interested in the statue.
Robb wrote that he was representing his father, Thomas Robb, pastor of the Christian Revival Center in Lead Hill, which is in Boone County. Thomas Robb is also the national director of the Knights.
"My client is offering to pay the related expenses for the moving of the Nathan Bedford Forrest monument and for it to be placed at his church grounds," Jason Robb wrote.
Lowery said he thought the city already had received offers from other groups willing to pay for the statue, so the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan would have to raise its offer.
"I don't think the city's going to be inclined to give it away to someone who's just offering to pay moving expenses," Lowery said.
Memphis officials did not provide information Thursday concerning other offers.
The statue was installed in the park in 1905. It cost $28,000 at that time, according to an opinion from Allan Wade, an attorney who represents the city of Memphis. That would be more than $675,000 in today's dollars.
A private group raised the money for the statue and for moving the bodies of Forrest and his wife, Mary, from Elmwood Cemetery to Bedford Forrest Park in 1904.
Lowery said the couple's remains will be moved back to the cemetery, which is where Forrest requested in his will that they be buried.
Kim McCollum, executive director of Elmwood Cemetery, said the original spaces are still available where Forrest and his wife were previously buried, and the couple can be re-interred in their original spaces.
"Elmwood Cemetery will provide the burials of the Forrests free of charge in a gesture of good will to the people of Memphis," McCollum wrote in an email to Lowery. "Elmwood Cemetery will assist the city with the removal and relocation of the caskets, should the time come."
In his letter, Jason Robb asked that the remains of Forrest and his wife be moved to the Christian Revival Center in Lead Hill "to circumvent the probably desecration of their graves should they be interred in any other location."
But Lowery said the remains won't be shipped to Arkansas. They'll go back to Elmwood Cemetery.
A chancery court order is required in Tennessee before human remains can be exhumed.
The base of the statue was vandalized recently with graffiti that read "Black lives matter."
Metro on 08/14/2015