Armistead Death Site

Gen. Armistead was carried to this building after being wounded during Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863. He died here two days later.

This statue, located in the Gettysburg National Cemetery Annex, shows a mortally wounded Gen. Armistead handing over his personal items to Union Capt. Henry Bingham, an aide to his friend Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock.

This memorial marks the location on the battlefield where Gen. Armistead received his mortal wound.

Gen. Armistead was originally buried at the George Spangler Farm. He was later moved to the Old Saint Paul’s Cemetery in Baltimore and reinterred next to his uncle Colonel George Armistead, Commander of Fort McHenry during the British bombardment Sept. 13-14, 1814.

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.