Fourteenth Army Corps

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Orchard Knob Avenue north of Ivy Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1890

Maj. Gen. John M. Palmer.. <small>Nov. 19-25th, 1863.</small>.

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.