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.

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.