Willich's Brigade

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

Wood's Division - Granger's Corps.. Brig. Gen. August Willich.

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.