CIVIL WAR ARTICLES

Learn more about the history of the Civil War in Dalton and throughout Northwest Georgia! The articles featured here were originally written by local historians of the Whitfield-Murray Historical Society.

Prominent Places

Pre-War

1861 – April to  June

1861 – July to September

1862 – January to March

1862 – July to September

1865 – April to June

  • Desperate Spring – John Hutcheson

Post War

  • Removal of the Fallen from Chickamauga and North Georgia – Martin Sowder
  • Mary Green and the First Confederate Cemetery in Georgia – Martha Locke
  • Creation of The Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park – Jim Burran