Codori Thicket

The Codori Farm is just south of Gettysburg on the east side of Emmitsburg Road. Late on the afternoon of July 2nd, Union Gen. Hancock reacted to a gap in the Union line on the Codori Farm. 1,700 Alabama infantry were rapidly advancing. If they overran the gap, the Union army would be split in two. The only troops at the ready were 262 men of the 1st Minnesota Infantry. Although vastly outnumbered, Hancock ordered the Minnesotans to fill the gap. The short Battle of Codori Thicket was a Union success; however, 215 of the Infantry’s 262 soldiers were either killed or wounded.