Grape shot is lodged near the center of a large piece of wood. At widest points, wood measures approx. 42” long x 4 ¼” thick. Writing in marker ink on reverse reads, “FOUND DUG GAP- GA. 1999”.

There are two battles known as Dug Gap. The Battle of Davis's Cross Roads, also known as the Battle of Dug Gap, was fought September 10–11, 1863, in northwestern Georgia, as part of the Chickamauga Campaign of the Civil War. It was more of a series of maneuvers and skirmishes than an actual battle.

Also, is the Battle of Dug Gap on May 8, 1864. In the opening move of the campaign to take Atlanta, Union General William T. Sherman ordered General George Thomas’s Army of the Cumberland to move against General Joseph E. Johnston’s Confederates entrenched along Rocky Face Ridge.  While Thomas’s force attacked Johnston, General James B. McPherson’s Union Army of the Tennessee would march south toward Resaca and threaten the Confederate rear.  On May 8, 1864, Union troops under General John W. Geary advanced up the steep slopes at a place called Dug Gap.  Geary’s men, many of whom had scaled Lookout Mountain six months earlier, reached the Confederate line.  Hand-to-hand fighting broke out along the craggy mountain crest as daring Yankees vaulted over rocks and boulders to break the Rebel line.  Ultimately, Confederate reinforcements under the command of General Patrick Cleburne arrived on the scene and successfully drove the Federals back down the mountainside.  Though, the first battle of the Atlanta Campaign had been a victory, McPherson’s march went undetected. Sherman’s move to take Atlanta was well underway.  [SL]

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