Historical Marker
40th Ohio Infantry
Historical marker location:
703 South Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee
( Marker is on South Crest Road west of Waheela Road, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1908
Whitaker's Brigade, Cruft's 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.