Located 1.4 miles west of this site, Camp Trenton was a Confederate Army training camp in Gibson County. Colonel M. R. Hill's 47th Tennessee Infantry departed from Camp Trenton by train on Sunday, April 6, 1862, and arrived at the Battle of Shiloh on Monday, April 7, as the only Confederate reinforcements.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 45W and Old Dyersburg Road, on the right when traveling south on U.S. 45W.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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