Historical Marker
Boyle's Brigade
Historical marker location:
Shiloh, Tennessee
( Marker is on Hamburg-Purdy Road, on the right when traveling east.)
Crittenden's Division. Army of the Ohio.
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.