53rd Ohio Infantry

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker is on Peabody Road, 0.2 miles east of Corinth Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Hildebrand's Brigade -- Sherman's Division. Army of the Tennessee.

Tennessee was the site of the first recorded manned flight in history. In 1878, a man named George Washington Pearcy flew a steam-powered aircraft over a field in Shelbyville, Tennessee.