Bowen's Brigade

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Hamburg-Savannah Road, 0.3 miles north of Hamburg-Purdy Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Breckinridge'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.