8th Illinois Infantry

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker is on Corinth-Pittsburg Landing Road, on the left when traveling west.)

1st Brigade - 1st Division. Army of the Tennessee.

The Great Train Robbery of 1866, one of the most famous train robberies in American history, took place in Tennessee. A group of Confederate veterans stole $90,000 from a train traveling from Nashville to Chattanooga.