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During the Battle of Atlanta on July 22, 1864, Manigault's Confederates overran Captain DeGress's four Parrott guns near the Troup Hurt House; a Union counterattack later that afternoon recaptured the battery in some of the day's fiercest fighting.
The DeGress Battery is a historical marker in Atlanta, Fulton County, erected in 1956. It is one of 357 historical markers documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.7603, -84.3532 near Atlanta. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Troup Hurt House (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Manigault's Brigade, The 15th Corps Sector, and Site: The Pope House.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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