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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.
Cadmus Wilcox (took over after Pender's death during the retreat from Gettysburg Military unit A. P. Hill's Light Division was an infantry division in General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War .
Wilcox launched his attack about 6 p.m. and initially routed two Union brigades but was driven back by a Union counterattack before Confederate reinforcements arrived. Wilcox lost 730 men while inflicting only 338 casualties on the Union forces. During the rest of the battle, the corps was engaged in only brief skirmishing. [12]
The 13th and 16th regiments flanked James L. Kemper's brigade as it approached the copse of trees on Cemetery Ridge, then the 16th wheeled about, and joined by the 14th, stopped the advance of Cadmus M. Wilcox's brigade, capturing hundreds of Virginians.
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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 ...
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)
Cannons representing Hancock's defenses, stormed by Pickett's Charge Appearance of Cemetery Hill previous to Pickett's Charge, sketched by Alfred Waud. The infantry charge was preceded by what Lee hoped would be a powerful and well-concentrated cannonade of the Union center, destroying the Union artillery batteries that could defeat the assault and demoralizing the Union infantry.