But before long, a sinister spy (Timothy Dalton) plots to steal the jetpack, thrusting Cliff into a dangerous mission that ultimately transforms him into an extraordinary hero.
Macon was their destination and many of those who took the train that night had already refugeed five and six times before, as Johnston fell back from Dalton.
When the Yankees, swarming out of the hills, came upon them, the Southern troops were waiting for them, entrenched behind breastworks, batteries planted, bayonets gleaming, even as they had been at Dalton.
3 The big car slowed, but not enough to stop at the warning sign as the drivers lammed on the brakes. The car slipped off the road into the Dalton River.
But, for the most part, Atlanta was not disturbed by the prospect of fighting near Dalton. The place where the Yankees were concentrating was only a few miles southeast of the battle field of Chickamauga.
But the army cried: " Give us back Old Joe" ! for they had been with Old Joe all the weary miles from Dalton and they knew, as the civilians could not know, the odds that had opposed them.