Tuesday Evening Walk – June 23, 2026

“Caldwell’s Division Strikes the Wheatfield” LBG Larry Korcyk

On the late afternoon of 2 July, General John Caldwell’s First Division of the 2nd Corps, consisting of the brigade of Colonel Edward Cross, Colonel Patrick Kelly, Colonel John Rutter Brooke, and General Samuel K. Zook, were ordered to a 20-acre wheatfield to reinforce a beleaguered brigade of the Third Corps
and brigades of the Fifth Corps. The ensuing fight would eventually have the First Division drive the Georgians and South Carolinians of General Longstreet’s Corps from the wheatfield only to be in turn driven from the wheat. This battle walk will cover the battle action of the four brigades of Caldwell’s Division in the chaotic and horrific combat in the wheat and surrounding woods.

Acknowledgement of Risks