Morton's Battery

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Hamburg-Purdy Road and Corinth Road, on the left when traveling west on Hamburg-Purdy Road.)

6th Indiana Battery - McDowell's Brigade - Sherman'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.