24th Ohio Infantry

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Hamburg-Savannah Road, ¾ mile south of Corinth Road, on the left when traveling south.)

Ammen's Brigade -- Nelson'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.