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Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox (May 20, 1824 – December 2, 1890) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and also was a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
The regiment's most famous action occurred during the second day's fighting at Gettysburg, when Major General Winfield Scott Hancock ordered the 1st Minnesota, composed of roughly 250 men, to charge into a brigade of roughly 1,200 men belonging to James Longstreet's corps and Richard H. Anderson's Division. Although the regiment was outnumbered ...
At 10:30 am, General George Pickett's brigade was ordered to relieve General Cadmus Wilcox brigade's right. The objective of Pickett's brigade was to extend the line well to the right of the Federal's flank and turn it. The brigade, including the 19th, drove the Federals to a pine thicket.
With the gap firmly in Confederate control, Col. Evander M. Law's brigade was ordered up and over the ridge to the north of the gap to attack the Federal right. At the same time, Brig. Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox was sent with three brigades 6 miles (9.7 km) to the north, through Hopewell Gap, to outflank the Federal position and attack its rear ...
Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault on 3 July 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg.It was ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee as part of his plan to break through Union lines and achieve a decisive victory in the North.
The 58th Infantry was constituted on 15 May 1917 in the Regular Army as the 58th Infantry and organized 5 June 1917 at Gettysburg National Park, Pennsylvania, from personnel of the 4th Infantry Regiment. Assigned to the 4th Infantry Division 19 November 1917. Inactivated 21 June 1922 at Fort George Wright, Washington, disbanded 31 July 1922. [2]
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Brigade Regiments and Others Anderson's Division MG Richard H. Anderson. Wilcox's Brigade BG Cadmus M. Wilcox. 8th Alabama: Ltc Hilary A. Herbert; 9th Alabama: Cpt Joseph H. King (w) 10th Alabama: Col William H. Forney (w&c), Ltc James E. Shelley; 11th Alabama: Col John C. C. Sanders (w), Ltc George E. Tayloe, Maj Richard J. Fletcher (w)