17th Ohio Infantry

Historical marker location:

160 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on North Crest Road south of Brown Wood Drive, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1908

Turchin's Brig., Baird's Div., 14th Corps.. Maj. Benjamin F. Butterfield.

The Great Train Robbery of 1866, one of the most famous train robberies in American history, took place in Tennessee. A group of Confederate veterans stole $90,000 from a train traveling from Nashville to Chattanooga.