Bragg Invades Kentucky

Historical marker location:

Sparta, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of West Bockman Way (U.S. 70) and Mayberry Street (Tennessee Route 1), on the left when traveling east on West Bockman Way.)

Sept.-Oct., 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.