Lewis armistead last words
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Lewis Addison Armistead was born in New Bern this week, give or take 206 years. He would be really old, if he hadn’t gotten himself killed climbing over a Yankee-controlled wall at Gettysburg in 1863.
I don’t know that he ever lived here. We don’t know how much time growing up that he spent in North Carolina in general – the forces he would lead were Virginian, however, and that is how he is remembered, himself.
His father was an army officer named Walter Keith Armistead, chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers. His mother was Elizabeth-Maiden-Name-Stanly, daughter of John Stanly, a firey-tempered former congressman whose greatest claim to fame was killing a signer of the US Constitution in a bitter duel.
Stanly didn’t like the hotshot, Virginia-born Armistead either, but apparently he allowed him and his daughter into his home at the Stanly House (now a museum on the Tryon Palace grounds) where she bore her ill-fated son.
As Lewis grew, he began to show a bit of Stanly temper. Insulted by fellow student and future Confederate General Jubal A. Early on the para
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Lewis Addison Armistead was born on February 18, 1817, in New Bern, North Carolina, and was raised in Fauquier County, Virginia, by a family related to United States presidents James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Benjamin Harrison. His father and four uncles all served during the War of 1812, with one of those uncles, George Armistead, commanding Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, where the famous “Star Spangled Banner” flew. Armistead entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1833, but academic difficulties and poor conduct—including supposedly breaking a plate over the head of future Confederate general Jubal A. Early—led to his resignation in 1836.
Three years later Armistead returned to the army as a second lieutenant in the 6th Infantry Regiment and served primarily in garrison duty in the West. Although considered to be good-natured, Armistead demonstrated his ability as a fighter during the Mexican War, earning two brevet promotions for gallantry in the Mexico City Campaign of 1847. He resigned his commission on May 26, 1861, after
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Armistead Lindsay Long
Brigadier general for the Confederate States of America
Armistead Lindsay Long | |
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Brigadier General Long | |
| Born | (1825-09-13)September 13, 1825 Campbell County, Virginia |
| Died | April 29, 1891(1891-04-29) (aged 65) Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Place of burial | Maplewood Cemetery, Charlottesville |
| Allegiance | United States of America Confederate States of America |
| Service / branch | United States Army Confederate States Army |
| Years of service | 1851–1861 (USA) 1861–1865 (CSA) |
| Rank | First Lieutenant (USA) Brigadier General (CSA) |
| Unit | Army of Northern Virginia |
| Battles / wars | American Civil War |
| Relations | Mary Heron Sumner (wife), Virginia Tunstall Long (daughter), Edwin Vose Long (son), Eugene Mclean Long (son) |
| Other work | engineer, author |
Armistead Lindsay Long (September 13, 1825 – April 29, 1891) was a brigadier general for the Confederate States of America, and the author of the 1886 book Memoirs of Robert E. Lee.
Early life and career
Long was born in Campbell County, Virgini
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