21st Ohio Infantry

Historical marker location:

19 South Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on South Crest Road, 0.1 miles south of Ridge Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1908

Starkweather's Brigade - Johnson's Division. 14th Corps.

Tennessee was the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, a notorious white supremacist organization that terrorized African Americans and other minority groups throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865.