- Ascent to Dug Gap State Historical
Marker
- Located at Dug Gap and E. Dug Gap Mtn. Rds, south
of Walnut Ave. and just east of I-75
- 34.740078°N, 85.998528°W
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(Text)
- ASCENT TO DUG GAP
1.5 Mi. W. this road ascends to
and crosses the summit of Rocky Face ridge -- a direct route
between Dalton and la Fayette.
May 7, 1864. Grigsby's brigade
(Wheeler's Cav.), after retreating from Tunnel Hill to Mill Creek
Cap, camped on this road at foot of the ridge -- all except Dortch's
battalion, which ascended to the gap, joining the infantry post
of Williamson's Arkansans.
Dortch's arrival there, being reported
to h'dq'rs at Dalton, prompted a peremptory order to Grigsby
to send cavalry scouts across the ridge. The 9th Ky., on reaching
Dogwood Valley, early the 8th, found the Federals advancing.
- 155-12 GEORGIA HISTORIC
MARKER 1989
© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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