Save the Dalton Battlefields

08/29/2026

Thank you all for your support of our Mission!

08/29/2026

Coming soon! A new park and another battlefield and conservation preservation success story!
Blue and Gray Education Society
American Battlefield Trust
Open Space
Georgia Battlefields Association
Friends of Buzzards Roost
of resaca battlefield

08/27/2026

Who has hiked the Disney trail this year?

On a cold February morning in the early dawn atop Rocky Face Ridge during the American Civil War, Confederate soldier Pvt. George Disney sat up, stretched his arms to the […]

08/09/2026

https://youtu.be/q6pvxuDeJdI?si=Dcftac8Lkcw21pFd

We make the climb up beautiful Rocky Face Ridge in Dalton, Georgia,...

04/25/2026

Georgia Battlefields Association

04/24/2026

04/21/2026

ECW News: Jenkins Named Executive Director of Blue & Gray Education Society

Robert Jenkins has been selected to serve as the new executive director of the Blue & Gray Education Society BGES). Jenkins has previously served as the BGES’s field university coordinator.

He follows in the footsteps of Wade Sokolosky, who had assumed the position in June 2025. Sokolosky remains with the BGES, assisting with operations and administration.

Jenkins sat down for an exclusive interview with ECW to talk about his new role and his plans for BGES’s future.

Watch here 👇
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e_WDMXpCEx0&t=11s&pp=2AELkAIB
For those on Instagram a link is available via our story

For more information on the Blue & Gray Education Society, visit their website.
https://blueandgrayeducation.org/

04/19/2026

Why do we fight to Save the Land?

Here are pictures taken in April 2014 before construction of the Hallmark Heights Apartments on Crow Valley Road but after the destruction of the earthworks and artillery battery site caused by the clear-cutting of the timber.

Dalton and Whitfield County have more Civil War earthworks than ANY OTHER county in the Nation! Cobb County used to have that distinction before the bulldozers caused their near-extinction.

This past weekend, we hosted a busload of people from all over the country for 4 days who came to see our Civil War sites and learn about our significant role in the American Civil War. We host bus loads and van loads and car loads of people by the hundreds and thousands to Dalton every single year! Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park has more than 1 million visitors annually, more than Gettysburg, Antietam or Vicksburg. So, too, does Chickamauga. 

Imagine one day Rocky Face Ridge and Resaca National Battlefield Park with over 1 million visitors to Dalton to stay in our hotels, eat in our restaurants, and shop in our stores EVERY single year! Clean industry? Tourism is absolutely clean industry.

But just because this will one day be economically feasible, marketable, and sustainable, is not the best reason to preserve our rare, rich, and endangered historic sites; the best reason is because it is the RIGHT thing to do: to save our lands so that our children and our children’s children may one day see, learn, and enjoy our Nation’s history!

Also, preserving our endangered earthworks, which are located in many instances atop fragile geologic ecosystems along our ridge lines and hillsides in and around Dalton, is not only good for history and good for business, it is also good for the environment.

Thank you to my friends Bill and Mary Porter for sharing these pictures and this sad memory when we walked on this lost historic land together. And thank you, Bill and Mary, and all of you for your continued support of our mission.

Thank you also to our friends and partners American Battlefield Trust, Georgia Battlefields Association, Open Space, The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia, Civil War News, Whitfield-Murray Historical Society, County Government, of Dalton Government, Blue and Gray Education Society, Georgia Civil War Commission, P. Pierce Foundation, of Resaca, and so many other individuals and organizations.

Bob

04/18/2026

Robert Douglas Jenkins

Fittingly, the gathering occurred at the old Western & Atlantic train depot, itself the beneficiary of a commitment to honoring the past while looking to the future. The recently restored depot was one stop along the legendary “Great Locomotive Chase” of April 1862.

04/18/2026

Save the Dalton Battlefields
Blue and Gray Education Society
Civil War News

Fittingly, the gathering occurred at the old Western & Atlantic train depot, itself the beneficiary of a commitment to honoring the past while looking to the future. The recently restored depot was one stop along the legendary “Great Locomotive Chase” of April 1862.