Historical Marker
Freeman's Battery
Historical marker location:
Parkers Crossroads, Tennessee
( Memorial can be reached from Tennessee Route 22, 0.6 miles north of Interstate 40, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2002
Forrest's Artillery.
Tennessee was the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, a notorious white supremacist organization that terrorized African Americans and other minority groups throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865.