First Battle of Dalton

The First Battle of Dalton was a series of American Civil War skirmishes that took place between February 22 and February 27, 1864, in Whitfield County, Georgia. On February 22, Union Army Major General George H. Thomas decided to probe Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's troops, to determine if the loss of two divisions to reinforce Confederate forces elsewhere had made them vulnerable to attack. After several days of intense skirmishing, Thomas's army withdrew upon realizing Johnston could repel any assault.

References

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Georgia in the American Civil War

Pre-War	History of slavery in Georgia

1861	Georgia Constitutional Convention (1861) Georgia Militia

1862	Great Locomotive Chase Siege of Fort Pulaski

1863	Battle of Fort McAllister (1863) Battle of Chickamauga Battle of Davis' Cross Roads Battle of Ringgold Gap

1864	Army of the Tennessee Army of Georgia Battle of Rocky Face Ridge Battle of Resaca First Battle of Dalton Battle of Adairsville Battle of New Hope Church Battle of Dallas Battle of Pickett's Mill Battle of Marietta Battle of Kolb's Farm Battle of Pace's Ferry Battle of Brown's Mill Battle of Peachtree Creek Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Battle of Atlanta Battle of Ezra Church Battle of Utoy Creek Second Battle of Dalton Battle of Lovejoy's Station Battle of Jonesborough Battle of Allatoona Battle of Griswoldville Battle of Buck Head Creek Battle of Fort McAllister (1864) Battle of Altamaha Bridge

1865	Battle of West Point Battle of Columbus

American Civil War

Origins

Origins Issues	Timeline leading to the War Antebellum era Bleeding Kansas Border states Compromise of 1850 Dred Scott v. Sandford Missouri Compromise Popular sovereignty Secession States' rights President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers

Slavery	African Americans Confiscation Act of 1861 Confiscation Act of 1862 Emancipation Proclamation Fugitive slave laws Slave Power Treatment of slaves in the United States Uncle Tom's Cabin

Abolitionism	Susan B. Anthony John Brown Frederick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison Lysander Spooner George Luther Stearns Charles Sumner Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad

Combatants
Theaters
Campaigns
Battles
States

Combatants

Union (USA)	Army Navy Marine Corps Revenue Cutter Service

Confederacy (CSA)	Army Navy Marine Corps

Theaters

Campaigns

Major battles

Involvement (by
state or territory)

Leaders

Confederate

Civilian	Benjamin Bocock Breckinridge Davis Hunter Mallory Memminger Seddon Stephens

Military	R.H. Anderson Beauregard Bragg Cooper Early Ewell Forrest Gorgas Hill Hood Jackson A.S. Johnston J.E. Johnston Lee Longstreet Morgan Mosby Price Quantrill Semmes E.K. Smith Stuart Taylor Wheeler

Union

Civilian	Adams Chase Ericsson Hamlin Lincoln Pinkerton Seward Stanton Stevens Wade Welles

Military	Anderson Buell Burnside Butler Du Pont Farragut Foote Frémont Grant Halleck Hooker Hunt McClellan McDowell Meade Meigs Ord Pope D.D. Porter Rosecrans Scott Sheridan Sherman Thomas

Aftermath

U.S. Constitution	13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment

Reconstruction	Alabama Claims Carpetbaggers Freedman's Savings Bank Freedmen's Bureau Black Codes Ku Klux Klan Redeemers Southern Claims Commission

post-Reconstruction	Disenfranchisement Jim Crow Lost Cause

Cemeteries	Confederate monuments and memorials National cemeteries U.S. monuments and memorials

Veterans	Grand Army of the Republic Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Old soldiers' homes United Confederate Veterans

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