Editing Battle of Atlanta (section)

==Legacy==
In 1880, Atlanta ranked among the fifty largest cities in the United States.<ref name=NPSIndustrial/> The battlefield is now urban, residential, and commercial land, with many markers memorializing notable events of the battle,<ref>{{cite web|title=Atlanta Markers|url=http://www.hmdb.org/results.asp?Town=Atlanta&State=Georgia|work=The Historical Marker Database|access-date=February 6, 2011|archive-date=October 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027171115/https://www.hmdb.org/results.asp?Town=Atlanta&State=Georgia|url-status=dead}}</ref> including McPherson's place of death. The marker was erected in 1956 by the [[Georgia Historical Commission]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Death of McPherson Marker|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=8736|work=The Historical Marker Database|access-date=February 6, 2011}}</ref> To commemorate the 140th anniversary of the battle, in 2004, two new markers were erected in the [[Inman Park]] neighborhood. The [[Atlanta Cyclorama]] building, built in 1921 and listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], is located in Grant Park and formerly contained a [[panoramic painting]] of the battle.<ref name=NPSIndustrial/><ref>{{cite web|title=Grant Park Historic District|access-date=December 28, 2010|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/atlanta/ghd.htm|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref> In 2014, the City of Atlanta sold the Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama to [[Atlanta History Center]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/attractions/atlanta-cyclorama-timeline-and-history-the-battle-atlanta-painting/BJZBoItDQXzGilaOSGqH4J/|title=Atlanta's Cyclorama: A timeline and history of the Battle of Atlanta painting|newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|language=en|access-date=2019-08-01}}</ref> Atlanta History Center constructed new, purpose-built building at their Buckhead Campus to house the art piece. The painting itself underwent an extensive restoration to reverse changes made to the original painting in the 1890s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/atlanta-famed-cyclorama-tell-truth-civil-war-once-again-180970715/|title=Atlanta's Famed Cyclorama Mural Will Tell the Truth About the Civil War Once Again|last=Hitt|first=Jack |others=Photographs: Joshua Rashaad McFadden |website=Smithsonian|language=en|access-date=2019-08-01}}</ref> The Cyclorama and accompanying exhibition ([https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/explore/exhibitions/cyclorama-the-big-picture Cyclorama: The Big Picture]) opened at Atlanta History Center on February 22, 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/restored-cyclorama-opens/p0q5kiMQtS08OJjvjiRzgK/ |title=Restored Cyclorama opens|last=Emerson |first=Bo |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|language=en|access-date=2019-08-01}}</ref>

One notable establishment destroyed by Union soldiers was the Potter (or Ponder) House, built in 1857, and owned by [[Ephraim G. Ponder]], a holder of 65 slaves before the war. In the battle, it was used by Confederate sharpshooters until Union artillery inflicted heavy damage. It was never rebuilt. One of Ponder's slaves, Festus Flipper, was the father of [[Henry Ossian Flipper]], who later became the first African American [[cadet]] to graduate from the [[United States Military Academy]] at [[West Point, New York|West Point]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/meta/html/dlg/vang/meta_dlg_vang_ful0896-84.html?Welcome|title=THE POTTER HOUSE ATLANTA Photo from Nature by G. N. Barnard|publisher=Digital Library of Georgia|access-date=February 26, 2011}}</ref>

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File:Surrender of Atlanta historical marker.jpg|[[Georgia Historical Society#Georgia historical marker program|Georgia Historical Marker]] for the surrender of Atlanta
File:PottersHouseAtlanta1864.jpg|The Potter (or Ponder) House in Atlanta housed Confederate sharpshooters until Union artillery made a special target of it
File:Atlanta_Battlefield_Georgia.jpg|Map of Atlanta battlefield core and study areas by the [[American Battlefield Protection Program]]
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