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Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: July 17, 2014
Caption: Second Armistead Marker
Additional Description: The Death of a GeneralIn the aftermath of Pickett’s Charge on July 3, a number of Confederate wounded were transported to the Spangler farm for medical treatment. Among them was Confederate Brig. Gen. Lewis Armistead, one of three brigade commanders in Pickett’s Division. It was General Armistead who had led the breakthrough of the Union position on Cemetery Ridge with some 150 Confederate soldiers. The breakthrough was short lived and Armistead was shot down, wounded in the arm and leg. When he reached the farm he was placed in a “kitchen,” which could have been this summer kitchen. The historical record is unclear. Neither of his wounds were considered mortal by the surgeons that attended him, yet two days later General Armistead was dead. Armistead was initially buried on the farm, where “he was wrapped in a blanket and buried back of the barn that was filled with wounded men.” His body was later reinterred at Old Saint Paul’s Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.
Submitted: November 15, 2014, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p292324
File Size: 4.519 Megabytes

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