Van Den Corput's Georgia Battery

Historical marker location:

606 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

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

Marker installed: 1890

Capt. W.W. Carnes' Artillery Battalion.. Stevenson's Division, Breckinridge's Corps.

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.