Captain Theodrick (Tod) Carter

Historical marker location:

1140 Columbia Ave, Franklin, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Columbia Avenue (Business U.S. 31) north of West Folkes Street, on the left when traveling north.)

20th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Smiths Brigade. Bates Division, Cheathams Corps, Army of Tennessee C.S.A.

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.