125th Ohio Infantry

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on South Crest Road south of East Main Street, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1908

Harker's Brig., Sheridan's Div., 4th Corps.. Capt. Edward Bates. / Nov. 25, 1863.

The first known protest against British taxation in America occurred in Tennessee in 1768, more than a decade before the famous Boston Tea Party. A group of settlers in the Watauga Association signed a petition protesting the British government's attempt to impose taxes on them without their consent.