Shielded by earthworks, Confederates in this battery atop Little Kennesaw dueled with Union artillery for about two weeks. They named the fortification for Lieutenant Edward D. McBride, who was killed by shrapnel from an exploding Federal shell in a skirmish on June 23, 1864. He died immediately from a head wound after commanding two cannon in Henry Guibor's Missouri Battery, and a Catholic priest gave him last rites. The same shell wounded three other Missourians: Private Caldwell Dunlap, whose left arm was later amputated in Marietta; Sergeant William Robinson, who lost a leg; and Private Robert Welch, who suffered a foot wound. Confederate Private Samuel Dunlap, Caldwell's brother, recalled the sharp crack of a shell entering an embrasure, exploding at once, and revealing its dire effects as the smoke cleared.