He was captured at the Battle of Fort Henry, and would not return to duty until the next Fall, which led to his death during the Vicksburg Campaign.

[3][4] The statue was made by Henry Hudson Kitson, then a resident of Boston, Massachusetts who immigrated from England.

[5] The statue depicting Tilghman is made of bronze, and is on top of a pink granite pedestal and base.

The historical marker at the site was placed there by the Augusta Tilghman High School class of 1929.

[5][6][7] On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-one different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission.