DALTON, a city of north-western Georgia, U.S.A., 4om. S.E. of Chattanooga; the county seat of Whitfield county. It is on Federal highway 41, and is served by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis and the Southern railways. The population was 5,222 in 1920, and was 8,160 in 1930 by the Federal census. It is a shipping point for cotton, cattle, grain and fruit, and has various manufacturing industries, including mills with 976 looms and 94,312 spindles in 1928. The city was founded in 1848 and incorporated in 1874. In Nov. 1863, after Gen. Bragg's defeat at Chattanooga, he retreated to Dalton, and this became the head quarters of the Confederate army in northern Georgia through the winter. General Joseph E. Johnston replaced Bragg in Decem ber, and made preparations to meet Sherman's invasion of the State, disposing his forces to the north, north-west and north-east of the city. In May, when the Federal armies began to advance, the region was the scene of much manoeuvring and skirmishing, until (May 12) Johnston evacuated Dalton and retreated to Resaca, 15m. south.