First shells fall on Atlanta

What happened

Capt. Francis DeGress's Battery H, 1st Illinois (20-pounder Parrotts), with Logan's XV Corps east of the city, reported: 'At 1 o'clock fired three shells into Atlanta at a distance of two miles and a half, the first ones of the war.' Sherman ordered guns in range to shell the city as well as its works; about 3,000 civilians were still there. The firing position is not marked; the point shown is the XV Corps front of July 20–22 east of Moreland Ave.