Historical Marker
Myers' Battery
Historical marker location:
Shiloh, Tennessee
( Marker is on Hamburg-Purdy Road, 0.4 miles east of Eastern Corinth Road, on the left when traveling east.)
Hurlbut's 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.