9th Ohio Infantry.

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

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

Marker installed: 1908

Van Derveer's Brig., Baird's Div., 14th Corps.. Col. Gustave Kammerling.

The city of Nashville played an important role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The city was the site of the first sit-in protest in the United States, when a group of African American college students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in downtown Nashville in 1960.