Withdrawal From Donelson

Historical marker location:

Dover, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Spring Street (Tennessee Route 49) and Sentry Drive, on the left when traveling east on Spring Street.)

Feb. 16, 1862.

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.