Whitaker's Brigade

Historical marker location:

700 South Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on South Crest Road west of Waheela Road, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1890

Cruft's Division - Granger's Corps.. Brig. Gen. Walter C. Whitaker.

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.