Historical Marker
Veatch
Historical marker location:
Shiloh, Tennessee
( Marker is on Hamburg-Savannah Road, 0.1 miles north of Cavalry Road, on the right when traveling north.)
Headquarters, 2nd Brigade - 4th Division. Army of the Tennessee.
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.