Dug Gap
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DUG GAP 1 M. Dug Gap was so named because a pioneer road, cut out of the hillside, passed through a cleft in Rocky Face Ridge at this point. The road led east to Dalton and the Western and Atlantic Railroad, important military objectives. Federals sought in February and again in May, 1864, to pass through the gap, but were repulsed.
May 8, 1864, as the Atlanta Campaign began, Geary's Division of the Federal Twentieth Corps attacked Dug Gap, but was driven back after a brisk action. Direct attacks on Dalton failing, Sherman flanked toward Resaca through the broken, wooded area to the west. 155-34 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1959
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African-American Soldiers in Combat
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Atlanta Campaign Rocky Face Ridge
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Babb's Settlement
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Battle of Dug Gap
BATTLE OF DUG GAP. May 8, 1864.