Historical Marker
Unknown Confederate Dead Monument
Historical marker location:
911 Summer Street, Union City, Tennessee
( Memorial is at the intersection of Summer Street and Edwards Street, on the right when traveling west on Summer Street.)
Marker installed: 1869
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.