Battle of Dalton
At least three conflicts during the American Civil War are sometimes known as Battle of Dalton:
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- First Battle of Dalton, fought between February 22 and February 27, 1864, in Whitfield County, Georgia
- Operations near Dalton, on or about May 12, 1864, in Whitfield County, Georgia, an early stage in Sherman's Atlanta Campaign.[1]
- Second Battle of Dalton, fought between August 14 and August 15, 1864, in Whitfield County, Georgia
Notes
- ^ Eicher & Eicher, Civil War High Commands 908; Willis J. Abbott, Battle-fields and Victory: A Narrative of the Principal Military Operations of the Civil War (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1891), 140-41 ("the [federal] attack upon the lines at Dalton [was] a veritable battle, although a sharp skirmish was all that Sherman had planned").
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