Stewart's Division

Historical marker location:

266 South Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of South Crest Road and East View Drive, on the left when traveling south on South Crest Road.)

Marker installed: 1890

Breckinridge's Corps.. Maj. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart.

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.