Cumberland Township near Gettysburg in Adams County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Armistead Death Site

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, June 7, 2013

1. Armistead Death Site Marker

Inscription.
Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead, CSA, died here on July 5, 1863 of wounds received in Pickett’s Charge on July 3. This summer kitchen was part of the U.S. Army's 11th Corps Field Hospital, located here on the George Spangler farm.

This plaque is dedicated to
the memory of Gen. Armistead

Erected 1998 by Armistead Marker Preservation Committee.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Agriculture • Science & Medicine • War, US Civil. A significant historical month for this entry is July 1852.

Location. 39° 48.073′ N, 77° 13.266′ W. Marker is near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in Adams County. It is in Cumberland Township. It can be reached from Blacksmith Shop Road, on the right when traveling south. Marker is located on the George Spangler Farm. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Gettysburg PA 17325, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in South-Central Pennsylvania. It is also in the American Northeast,

in the Mid-Atlantic,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Northern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy

and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Well, Look What We Found! (a few steps from this marker); A Temporary Resting Place (a few steps from this marker); A Family Who Would Not Leave Their Home (a few steps from this marker); Food Preservation of the Past (a few steps from this marker); A Farm Transformed by War

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(within shouting distance of this marker); The Trademark of Craftsmen (within shouting distance of this marker); A Hospital Under Fire (within shouting distance of this marker); The George Spangler Farm Civil War Hospital Site (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gettysburg.

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, June 7, 2013

2. Armistead Death Site Marker

Marker on the Spangler Farm image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, June 7, 2013

3. Marker on the Spangler Farm

Summer Kitchen on the Spangler Farm image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, June 7, 2013

4. Summer Kitchen on the Spangler Farm

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

Inside the Summer Kitchen image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, June 7, 2013

5. Inside the Summer Kitchen

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, June 7, 2013

6. Armistead Death Site Marker

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.

Armistead Wounding Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, October 7, 2007

7. Armistead Wounding Marker

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

Grave of Gen. Armistead in Baltimore image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, October 19, 2003

8. Grave of Gen. Armistead in Baltimore

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.

Second Armistead Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 17, 2014

9. Second Armistead Marker

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.

Armistead Marker in the Summer Kitchen image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, July 17, 2014

10. Armistead Marker in the Summer Kitchen

Credits. This page was last revised on February 7, 2023. It was originally submitted on June 7, 2013, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 3,274 times since then and 108 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. submitted on June 7, 2013, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. 8. submitted on June 9, 2013, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. 9, 10. submitted on November 15, 2014, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.