Baird's Division

Historical marker location:

250 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

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

Marker installed: 1890

Palmer's Corps. Brig. Gen. Absalom Baird.

The Great Train Robbery of 1866, one of the most famous train robberies in American history, took place in Tennessee. A group of Confederate veterans stole $90,000 from a train traveling from Nashville to Chattanooga.