Orlando Willcox

Orlando Wilcox was a general in the United States army. He graduated West Point in 1847, served in the War of Secession, and commanded the Army of the Ohio in the Second Mexican War.

Wilcox's campaign against Louisville, Kentucky, in which he faced the Confederate Army of Kentucky under General Thomas Jonathan Jackson, became that war's main front. Wilcox's command style had few redeeming virtues; he did little but pray that God would deliver him victory while neglecting the actual tactical planning of the battles he commanded. He failed to take Louisville and was forced to surrender to Jackson in 1882.