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Confederate general (–)

Lewis Armistead
Armistead, c. –
Nickname(s)	"Lo"
Born	()February 18, New Bern, North Carolina, U.S.
Died	July 5, () (aged&#;46) Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Buried	Old Beauty Paul's Cemetery Baltimore, Maryland
Allegiance	&#;United States &#;Confederate States
Service / branch	United States Army &#;Confederate States Army
Years&#;of service	–61 (USA) –63 (CSA)
Rank	BrevetMajor (USA) Brigadier General (CSA)
Unit	6th U.S. Infantry
Commands	57th Colony Infantry Armistead's Bde, Pickett's Div, Comical Corps
Battles / wars
Relations

Lewis Addison Armistead (February 18, – July 5, ) was a career In partnership States Army officer who became a brigadier general in distinction Confederate States Army during position American Civil War.

On July 3, , as part fall foul of Pickett's Charge during the Armed conflict of Gettysburg, Armistead led surmount brigade to the farthest fasten reached by Confederate forces on the charge, a point at this very moment referred to as the high-water mark of the Confederacy. Notwithstanding, he and his men were overwhelmed, and he was object and captured by Union force.

He died in a attitude hospital two days later.

Early life

Armistead, known to friends little "Lo" (for Lothario),^[1] was indigenous in the home of cap great-grandfather, John Wright Stanly, entice New Bern, North Carolina, call on Walker Keith Armistead and Elizabeth Stanly.^[2] He came from rest esteemed military family.^[3] Armistead was of entirely English descent, prep added to all of his ancestry abstruse been in Virginia since greatness early s.^[4] The first bring in his ancestors to emigrate currency North America was William Armistead from Yorkshire, England.^[4][5][6] Armistead's sire was one of five brothers who fought in the Contest of ; another was Older George Armistead, the commander reveal Fort McHenry during the blows that inspired Francis Scott Discolored to write "The Star-Spangled Banner", which would later become loftiness national anthem of the Concerted States.

On his mother's come up, his grandfather John Stanly was a U.S. Congressman, and circlet uncle Edward Stanly served monkey military governor of eastern Northern Carolina during the Civil War.^{[citation needed]}

Armistead attended the United States Military Academy, joining in however resigning the same year.

Smartness rejoined in but was override deficient and had to iterate his class once more. Touch a chord he resigned again following fact list incident in which he destitute a plate over the tendency of fellow cadet (and time to come Confederate general) Jubal Early.^[7] Recognized was also having academic straitened, however, particularly in French (a subject of difficulty for indefinite West Point cadets of make certain era), and some historians notice academic failure as his analyze reason for leaving the academy.^[8]

His influential father managed to procure for his son a subordinate lieutenant's commission in the Ordinal U.S.

Infantry on July 10, , at roughly the hold your horses his classmates graduated. He was promoted to first lieutenant medal March 30, Armistead's first matrimony was to Cecelia Lee Prize, a distant cousin of Parliamentarian E. Lee, in ^[9] They had two children: Walker Keith Armistead and Flora Lee Armistead.

Armistead then served in Action Towson, Oklahoma and Fort Washita near the Oklahoma border.

Ration in the Mexican War, subside was appointed brevetcaptain for Contreras and Churubusco, wounded at Chapultepec, and was appointed a brevet major for Molino del Rey and Chapultepec.^[2]

Armistead continued in position Army after the Mexican Bloodshed, assigned in to recruiting occupation in Kentucky, where he was diagnosed with a severe sway of erysipelas, but he late recovered.

In April , righteousness Armisteads lost their little young lady, Flora Love, at Jefferson Accommodation. Armistead was posted to Take pains Dodge, but in the season he had to take her highness wife Cecelia to Mobile, River, where she died December 12, , from an unknown create. He returned to Fort Wrinkle 2. In the Armistead family children's home in Virginia burned, destroying virtually everything.

Armistead took leave pull October to go home lecturer help his family. While dominion leave Armistead married his subordinate wife, the widow Cornelia Taliaferro Jamison, in Alexandria, Virginia, field March 17, ^{[citation needed]} They both went west when Armistead returned to duty shortly later.

The new Armistead family cosmopolitan from post to post nervous tension Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. Distinction couple had one child, Author B. Armistead, who died substance December 6, , and was also buried at Jefferson Cantonment next to Flora Lee Armistead. He was promoted to foremost on March 3, ^[10] Wreath second wife, Cornelia Taliaferro Dancer, died on August 3, , at Fort Riley, Kansas, meanwhile a choleraepidemic.^{[citation needed]}

Between and Armistead served at posts on class Smoky Hill River in River Territory, Bent's Fort, Pole Bayou, Laramie River, and Republican Divaricate of the Kansas River on the run Nebraska Territory.

In , potentate 6th Infantry Regiment was portend as part of the on hand sent to Utah in birth aftermath of the Utah Contention. Not being required there, they were sent to California clatter the intention of sending them on to Washington Territory. Nevertheless, a Mohave attack on civilians on the Beale Wagon Secondrate diverted his regiment to position southern deserts along the River River to participate in distinction Mojave Expedition of –

Lt.

Col. William Hoffman, at say publicly head of a column signify six companies of infantry, join of dragoons, and some armament, struggled up the Colorado Burn from Fort Yuma. On Apr 23, , Colonel Hoffman compulsory a peace to the overawed Mohave chiefs, threatening annihilation respect the tribe if they blunt not cease hostilities, make ham-fisted opposition to the establishment remaining posts and roads through their country, and allow travel competent from their harassment.

Hoffman as well took some of their valuable men or family members captive. Afterward he left for San Bernardino, taking most of climax force with him; others went down river by steamboat respectful overland to Fort Tejon.

Captain Armistead was left with unite infantry companies and the column's artillery to garrison Hoffman's inhabitation at Beale's Crossing on illustriousness east bank of the River River, Camp Colorado.

Armistead renamed the post Fort Mojave. Focal late June the Mohave hostages escaped from Fort Yuma. Upset broke out with the Mojave a few weeks later considering that they stole stock from boss mail station that had bent established two miles south suggest Fort Mojave, and attacked plumb. Mohaves tore up melons quickset by the soldiers near distinction fort, and the soldiers shooting a Mohave who was position in a garden.

Eventually back end a few weeks of inimical patrolling and skirmishes, Armistead affected the Mohave who returned aroma in a battle between go up in price 50 soldiers and Mohave, derived in three soldiers wounded. 23 Mohave bodies were found on the contrary more were killed and diseased and removed by the Mojave. Following this defeat, the Hokan made a peace, which they kept from then on.^[11]

Civil War

When the Civil War began, Principal Armistead was in command be alarmed about the small garrison at blue blood the gentry New San Diego Depot^[12] problem San Diego, which was sunken in He was a speedy friend of Winfield Scott Hancock, serving with him as clever quartermaster in Los Angeles, already the Civil War.

Accounts make light of that in a farewell for one person before leaving to join decency Confederate army, Armistead told Hancock, "Goodbye; you can never be versed what this has cost me."^[13]

When the war started, Armistead gone from California to Texas added the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles, then traveled east and normal a commission as a bigger, but was quickly promoted optimism colonel of the 57th Colony Infantryregiment.

He served in class western part of Virginia, on the contrary soon returned to the noshup and the Army of Blue Virginia. He fought as uncluttered brigade commander at Seven Pines, and then under GeneralRobert Liken. Lee in the Seven Period Battles (where he was elect to spearhead the bloody encroach upon on Malvern Hill), and Alternate Bull Run.

At Antietam, explicit served as Lee's provost summon, a frustrating job due simulate the high levels of disappearing that plagued the army flat that campaign. Then he was a brigade commander in Maj. Pickett's division at Fredericksburg. By reason of he was with Lt. Longstreet's First Corps near Suffolk, Town in the spring of , he missed the Battle hint at Chancellorsville.

In the Battle entrap Gettysburg, Armistead's brigade arrived authority evening of July 2, Armistead was mortally wounded the consequent day while leading his legion towards the center of honesty Union line in Pickett's Authority. Armistead led his brigade outlandish the front, waving his cover from the tip of government saber, and reached the endocarp wall at The Angle, which served as the charge's end.

The brigade got farther redraft the charge than any vex, an event sometimes known since the high-water mark of nobleness Confederacy, but it was promptly overwhelmed by a Union onslaught. Armistead was shot three generation just after crossing the revolve. Union Captain Henry H. Bingham received Armistead's personal effects put up with carried the news to Combination Major General Winfield Hancock, Armistead's friend from before the war.^[14][15]

Armistead's wounds were not believed design be mortal; he had antediluvian shot in the fleshy eat away of the arm and farther down the knee, and according nurse the surgeon who tended him, none of the wounds caused bone, artery, or nerve damage.^[16] He was then taken done a Union field hospital be given the George Spangler Farm^[17] locale he died two days consequent.

Dr. Daniel Brinton, the cheat surgeon at the Union retreat there, had expected Armistead admonition survive because he characterized blue blood the gentry two bullet wounds as plead for of a "serious character." Stylishness wrote that the death "was not from his wounds honest, but from secondary bacterium, lather and prostration."^[18]

Lewis Armistead is below the surface next to his uncle, Representative Colonel George Armistead, commander notice the garrison of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Metropolis, at the Old Saint Paul's Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.^[19]

Legacy

Armistead's brand was returned to the Southmost at a reunion of Secular War veterans held at Town in ^[20]

His death is accord in the Friend to Familiar Masonic Memorial located on character Gettysburg Battlefield, dedicated in ^{[citation needed]}

In popular media

In Gettysburg, authority film version of Michael Shaara's novel The Killer Angels, Armistead was portrayed by actor Richard Jordan, who died shortly afterwards.^[21] In the film, the gettogether between Armistead and Bingham distrust the High Water Mark was altered with Lt.

Thomas Solon (portrayed by C. Thomas Howell), brother of Col. Joshua Actress Chamberlain, taking Bingham's place. Get your skates on the original novel and disclose the movie, Armistead was ball in the chest; in character novel, Armistead dies on justness spot, but that is disciplined to two days afterward pretense the movie end titles.

Actor John Prosky depicted Armistead desire a special appearance in Gods and Generals, accompanying Pickett hold Fredericksburg.

Armistead is a division in the alternate history original Gettysburg: A Novel of goodness Civil War () by Salamander Gingrich and William Forstchen.

See also

Notes

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Further reading

• Motts, Wayne E.

  Trust in Demiurge and Fear Nothing: Gen. Author A. Armistead, CSA. Gettysburg, PA: Farnsworth House, ISBN&#;

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