Cleburne's Brigade

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker is on Corinth Road, 0.1 miles north of Peabody Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Hardee's Corps. Army of the Mississippi.

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.