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At Dalton in January 1864, Confederate general Patrick Cleburne proposed enlisting and freeing enslaved men as soldiers to ease the South's manpower crisis. Fellow officers recoiled, and Jefferson Davis ordered the proposal suppressed and kept secret.
General Cleburne’s Proposal to Arm Slaves is a historical marker in Dalton, Whitfield County, erected in 2011. It is one of 64 historical markers documented in Whitfield County, among 106 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.7756, -84.9694 near Dalton. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Huff House (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Tristram Dalton, Whitfield County Courthouse, and Western and Atlantic Depot.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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