Phelps' Brigade

Historical marker location:

300 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

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

Baird's Division - Palmer's Corps.. Col. Edward H. Phelp's.

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was the site of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. The Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was staying, is now the National Civil Rights Museum.