Battle of Dalton

At least three conflicts during the American Civil War are sometimes known as Battle of Dalton:

• First Battle of Dalton, fought between February 22 and February 27, 1864, in Whitfield County, Georgia
• Battle of Rocky Face Ridge Operations near Dalton, on or about May 7, 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

1. ↑ 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").

References

• 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