...xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> The next stand of our army was at Alatoona, in the Etowah Mountains, south of the river of that name; the reported extension of the Federal army toward Dallas , threatening Marietta, was deemed to necessitate the evacuation of that strong position. The country between Dallas and Marietta, eighteen miles wide, and lying in a due westerly direction from the...