Willard's Battery

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker can be reached from Cavalry Road, 0.8 miles west of Hamburg-Savannah Road, on the right when traveling west.)

Battery A, 1st Illinois Light Artillery - W.H.L. Wallace's Division. Army of the Tennessee.

Tennessee was the last state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. It joined the Confederacy in June 1861, but a significant portion of its population remained loyal to the Union, leading to a bitter and divided conflict within the state.