The Battles of Tilton were two one-day skirmishes in the

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. The first of which was during the Atlanta Campaign, the second was during

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's Tennessee Campaign. The battles were fought in Tilton, Georgia, in Whitfield County, located a few miles south of

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, near the

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. The First Battle of Tilton was a skirmish on May 13, 1864. The Confederate side was led by Maj. Gen.

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. The Second Battle of Tilton occurred on October 13, 1864, when soldiers of Maj. Gen. Samuel G. French's Division of Lt. Gen. Stewart's Corps of the Confederate Army of Tennessee besieged a military garrison of 300 soldiers of the 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment commanded by Lt. Col. Simpson M. Archer. The blockhouse had been constructed a few months prior to the battle, to guard the

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. Commanded by Archer, the 17th Iowa Regiment barricaded themselves in the blockhouse and surrendered upon exhausting their ammunition supply. A future member of the

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, Pvt. William Graham Buck, was among those captured at the battle. Union prisoners captured at the battle were sent to Camp Lawton or

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in Andersonville.

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Civil War anniversary: Capture of the Tilton Block House
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