Wilcox’s Alabama Brigade,
Longstreet’s Division,
Brigadier General Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox
Wilcox’s Alabama Brigade, Longstreet’s Division, Army of Northern Virginia, CSA
Near here on June 27, 1862, three Confederate brigades under General Cadmus M. Wilcox ascended this hill, broke the Union line, and later assisted in capturing a battery of artillery. Wilcox’s own Alabama brigade spearheaded the charge, losing nearly 600 men killed and wounded of the 1850 soldiers in the four regiments.
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Casualties at Gaines’ Mill and Frazier Farm
8 Alabama Infantry 232 men
9 Alabama Infantry 256 men
10 Alabama Infantry 236 men
11 Alabama Infantry 316 men
Erected by:
Simonton Wilcox Camp 257, Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), from General Wilcox’s boyhood home of Covington, Tennessee, the Alabama Division, SCV, with the Pickett Chapter, MOSB of Richmond, Virginia, and the Camp Foundations.
October 31, 1999
Marker can be reached from Watt House Road 0.7 miles south of Cold Harbor Road (Virginia Route 156), on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
