- Joined
- Oct 4, 2013
- Location
- Cobb's Legion Country - Bowdon, Ga.
Today I took a quick trip to Kennesaw to locate what is known as Gist's Salient. In Earl Hess' Kennesaw Mountain he has incredible hand drawn maps showing the fortifications and works on the battlefield and has an entire chapter describing them. Unfortunately he does not mention most of them in the actual book text. We know Gist was not a recipient of a federal assault as he was just south of Pigeon Hill and a good ways north of Cheatham Hill. His exact position is just north of Nose's Creek. The elaborate works are still amazingly preserved and obvious to the hiker. Unfortunately photos never do them justice.
I will try to show using Hess' drawing where I took the pictures.
I also need to find a way to shrink my pictures. It takes them forever to load.
The numbers coincide with the pictures
#1. Picture one is the northeast quadrant of the salient looking East.
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#2: This one is from the trail but if you look right in the middle there is a doe.
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#3: From the trail looking southwest.
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#4: Traverses within the works. Note the stony ground. It must have been hot and hard work.
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5: The point of the salient. About 50 yards to the right are rifle pits for the skirmishers which I believe were either the 8th Battalion, Georgia Inf. or the 46th Georgia.
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#6: New signs being put up all through the park. I noticed 3 more just added in the past month.
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#7: Southern stretch of the salient.
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#10: I am 6'4" and you can see the outside of the works here are probably 8'-9' high here. This is the southern part of the salient leading into artillery emplacements that I could not access to photo.
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This photo is further down the slope at Nose's Creek. I don't know what that is being marked by the flags and tarps.
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This is from Nose's Creek looking up at Bate's works. Just to the left center you can see the first little "fort" that guards the ravine. I have pictures of this area here:
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/ken...pigeon-hill-to-dallas-hwy.101155/#post-910688
Here is a Maprika screen shot. Just to the right of the blue dot you can see the salient.
Sorry for some of the fuzziness in the pictures and the purple spots. My iPhone5 is on its last leg and I'm stubbornly holding out for the iPhone6 next month.
I will try to show using Hess' drawing where I took the pictures.
I also need to find a way to shrink my pictures. It takes them forever to load.
The numbers coincide with the pictures
#1. Picture one is the northeast quadrant of the salient looking East.
------------------------
#2: This one is from the trail but if you look right in the middle there is a doe.
-----------------------------
#3: From the trail looking southwest.
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#4: Traverses within the works. Note the stony ground. It must have been hot and hard work.
----------------------
5: The point of the salient. About 50 yards to the right are rifle pits for the skirmishers which I believe were either the 8th Battalion, Georgia Inf. or the 46th Georgia.
-------------------------
#6: New signs being put up all through the park. I noticed 3 more just added in the past month.
---------------------------
#7: Southern stretch of the salient.
--------------------
#10: I am 6'4" and you can see the outside of the works here are probably 8'-9' high here. This is the southern part of the salient leading into artillery emplacements that I could not access to photo.
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This photo is further down the slope at Nose's Creek. I don't know what that is being marked by the flags and tarps.
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This is from Nose's Creek looking up at Bate's works. Just to the left center you can see the first little "fort" that guards the ravine. I have pictures of this area here:
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/ken...pigeon-hill-to-dallas-hwy.101155/#post-910688
Here is a Maprika screen shot. Just to the right of the blue dot you can see the salient.
Sorry for some of the fuzziness in the pictures and the purple spots. My iPhone5 is on its last leg and I'm stubbornly holding out for the iPhone6 next month.