Historical Marker
35th Illinois Infantry
Historical marker location:
122 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee
( Memorial is on North Crest Road north of Shallowford Road, on the left when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1899
1st Brigade - 3d Division. 4th 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.