Lewis Addison Armistead

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Lewis Addison Armistead (18 February 1817 – 5 July 1863) was born in New Bern, North Carolina to Walker Keith Armistead and Elizabeth Stanly. He grew up near the mountains of Virginia on the family farm, Ben Lomond, near the town of Upperville, Virginia. He was accepted to West Point on 21 March 1833 but tendered his resignation to the school (for the second time, the first time, because of an illness that left him behind in his studies his first year at West Point and he was certain to fail his annual exam) on 29 January 1836 for the incident of "cracking a mess hall plate over the head of fellow classmate, Jubal Early."

Armistead was mortally wounded among Cushing's Battery during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg and died two days later in Union custody.