As William T. Sherman’s Federals continue bombarding Atlanta and maneuvering to cut off the city’s lines of supply, a fight breaks out southwest of Atlanta.
Tag: John M. Palmer
The Dalton Demonstration
Skirmishing intensifies in northern Georgia, as John M. Palmer seeks to unite his Federals at Rocky Face Ridge and drive the Confederates out of Dalton.
The Proposed Dalton Demonstration
Ulysses S. Grant looks to George H. Thomas’s Federal army at Chattanooga to advance into northern Georgia and threaten Dalton as a means to keep the Confederate army stationed there occupied and unable to reinforce the armies in Mississippi or northeastern Tennessee.