Dug Gap

Dug Gap is a Georgia historical marker in Whitfield County, dedicated 1986.

On Dug Gap Battle Road in Dalton.

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An excavation of the summit of Rocky Face Ridge on the direct route between Dalton and Lafayette. This gap was guarded by Confederate forces when Dalton was occupied after the retreat from Missionary Ridge in November 1863. Federal forces made two efforts to seize the gap; February 25 and May 8, 1864. The latter was made by Buschbeck's and Candy's brigades of Geary's (2d) division, 20th A.C. These troops scaled the W. scarp of the ridge, but failed to dislodge the defenders: 1st and 2d Arkansas reg'ts. under Col. J. A. Williamson and Grigsby's brigade of Wheeler's cav., supported by Cleburn's div. of Hardee's Corps.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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1856 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1892 · Catoosa, Georgia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Georgia, 1866, covering the location of Dug Gap, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1866, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Dug Gap

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