3rd Confederate Infantry

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker is on Corinth Road, 0.2 miles south of Hamburg-Purdy Road, on the left when traveling south.)

Shaver's Brigade - Hardee'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.