Doles Salient

These gentle mounds are all that remain of the formidable earthworks held by George Doles' Georgia Brigade. The trenches running perpendicular to the main line were called traverses and made these works appear like a series of three-sided roofless log cabins. After crossing the woods road over which this trail passes, Upton's regiments burst into the clearing with a wild cheer and overran the Georgians here before falling back in the face of a Confederate counter-charge.

Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia · United States