Sixth Division

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker is on Eastern Corinth Road, 0.2 miles north of Peabody Road, on the right when traveling north.)

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.