49th Illinois Infantry

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Hamburg-Purdy Road, 0.4 miles east of Sherman Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Burial Place.

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was the site of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. The Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was staying, is now the National Civil Rights Museum.