Born:   Friday, May 14, 1830 Milledgeville GA
Died:   Thursday, June 02, 1864 Bethesda Church VA
Buried:   Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia
Plot:  
 
Pre-War Profession Businessman, Capt. of Baldwin Blues militia co.

War Service 1861 Capt. in 4th Georgia, May 1861 Col., Malvern Hill (w), South Mountain, Sharpsburg, November 1862 Brig. Gen., commanded Doles’ Brigade/D H Hill’s Division at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, commanded Doles’ Brigadede/Rodes’ Divisionn at Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor (k).

Notes His brigade recaptured the Mule Shoe at Spotsylvania.

Brigadier General Doles was killed by an enemy sharpshooter near Bethesda Church, Virginia.

Cause of death: Rifle shot