9th Illinois Infantry

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker is on Hamburg-Savannah Road, 0.4 miles south of State Highway 22, on the right when traveling south.)

McArthur's Brigade - W.H.L. Wallace's 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.