Thompson's Battery

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker is on Cavalry Road, 0.9 miles west of Hamburg-Savannah Road, on the right when traveling west.)

9th Indiana Light Artillery - 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.