9th Kentucky Infantry

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

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

Gen. S. Beatty's Brigade.. Col. George H. Cram.

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.