Historical Marker

Trabue's Brigade

Historical marker location:
Shiloh, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Sherman Road, 0.3 miles south of Cavalry Road, on the left when traveling south.)

Breckinridge's Corps. Army of the Mississippi.

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.