Mr. Stephenson,
Thanks. I don't have that book by Mr. Daniels, but I did find part of what I was looking for in his book "Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee" pg94. (Now to find the letters I have that back it up)

" If there was any single activity that stood out in the memories of the men, it was the Dalton snowball fight. On March 22, 1864, a late winter storm dumped five inches of snow, a novelty to many of the boys from the lower South. Several impromptu scraps soon elevated to a regimental level. Otis Baker described a fray between the Tenth and Fourty-Fourth Mississippi and the Forty-first Mississippi, reinforced by the Seventh and Ninth Mississippi. 'In the afternoon they advanced upon our camp in three columns, having previously made an isolent demand for the unconditional surrender of the army of the East, as we were called, allowing us but ten minutes in which to decide,' Baker wrote. 'The demand being refused a hot attack was made and after an engagement of a half or three quarters of an hour terminated in their repluse. Their losses were their commander in cheif, besides several other officers of rank, and two or three stands of colors.'"

Then it goes on to tell about how the divisions of Cheatham and Walker get into one.

Virgil