Williams' Brigade

Historical marker location:

Shiloh, Tennessee

( Marker is on Hamburg-Purdy Road, ½ mile east of Eastern Corinth Road, on the left when traveling east.)

Hurlbut'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.