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Released following a prisoner exchange, Barton was assigned command of the Virginia brigade once led by Lewis Armistead, serving under Maj. Gen. George Pickett.

Armistead and brigade
Armistead was mortally wounded the next day while leading his brigade towards the center of the Union line in Pickett's Charge.

Armistead and from
* Anna Madrigal, fictional character from Armistead Maupin's novel series Tales of the City
* The American author Armistead Maupin includes a quote from Religio Medici in the preface to the third in his Tales of the City novels, Further Tales of the City, first published in 1982.
Armistead T. Mason ( DR ), from January 3, 1816
George Wythe was appointed to the Virginia House of Burgesses from Williamsburg, Virginia in the session of August 22, 1754 in place of the deceased Armistead Burwell.
General Armistead became estranged from the territorial government, although he needed 1, 500 militiamen from the Territory to defend the area north of Fort King.
In the U. K. the Reverend John Armistead removed children from a workhouse in Cheshire, and placed them with foster families.
From around 1957 until quite recently, Samuel Armistead ( UC Davis ) with colleagues Joseph Silverman and Israel Katz collected the Judeo-Spanish song tradition from informants in North America, Turkey, the Balkans, Greece, North Africa, and Israel.
Armistead was posted to Fort Dodge, but in the winter he had to take his wife Cecelia to Mobile, Alabama, where she died December 12, 1850, from an unknown cause.
The new Armistead family traveled from post to post in Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas.
When the war started, Armistead departed from California to Texas with the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles, then traveled east and received a commission as a major, but was quickly promoted to colonel of the 57th Virginia Infantry regiment.
* Confederate Veteran article about Armistead from November 1914.
His uncle, Armistead Thomson Mason ( 1787 – 1819 ), was also a U. S. Senator from Virginia.
However, in 1786, with the support of William Armistead ( then a member of the House of Delegates ) and carrying a 1784 testimonial of his service from the Marquis de Lafayette, James petitioned the Virginia Assembly for his freedom ( The facsimile of the letter of commendation can be viewed on the Lafayette College website ,< ref >
The daughter of another noted flag maker, Rebecca Young, Pickersgill learned her craft from her mother, and, in 1813, was commissioned by Major George Armistead to make a flag for Baltimore's Fort McHenry that was so large that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a great distance.
When he arrived at Fort McHenry, located in the outer harbor of Baltimore, Maryland, Armistead ordered " a flag so large that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a distance ".
Fort Carroll from Fort Armistead
George Armistead Smathers ( November 14, 1913 – January 20, 2007 ) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Florida in the United States Senate for eighteen years, from 1951 until 1969, as a member of the Democratic Party.
Like Armistead Gardens the community was founded as a home for African-American veterans returning from both World War II and the Korean War.
Gen. Lewis " Lo " Armistead, who was one of the leaders in the doomed Pickett's Charge against his friend from before the war, Union Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock.
Bruce Armistead Smathers ( born October 3, 1943 ) was a member of the Florida State Senate ( Committees: Education, Governmental Operations, Ways and Means ) and then was elected to and served as Secretary of State of Florida from 1975-1978.
" By some accounts Hobday copied the concept from another restaurant, Perry's, which opened several months earlier and was made famous as a singles " meet market " by Armistead Maupin's novel, Tales of the City.

Armistead and front
Armistead often traveled between camps, spying on British officers, who spoke openly about their strategies in front of him.

Armistead and wall
Armistead was shot three times just after crossing the wall.

Armistead and at
At the end of the Civil War, with the Confederacy in shambles, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond, Virginia and headed south, stopping for a night in Abbeville at the home of his friend Armistead Burt.
In Paris, he presented his wife, Elizabeth Armistead, for the first time in seven years of marriage, creating yet another stir back at court in London, and had three interviews with Napoleon, who – though he tried to flatter his most prominent British sympathiser – had to spend most of the time arguing about the freedom of the press and the perniciousness of a standing army.
Armistead was mortally wounded, falling near " The Angle ", at what is now termed the " High Water Mark of the Confederacy ".
* Armistead Maupin at Random House Australia
Armistead began an offensive, sending out 100 soldiers at a time to search for the Seminole and their camps.
In November 1840 Gen. Armistead had met at Fort King with Tiger Tail ( Thlocklo Tustenuggee ), a Muskogee speaker, and Halleck Tustenuggee, a Mikasuki speaker.
During that time he appeared at several forts, presenting the pass given to him by Armistead, and demanding food and liquor.
* Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, a digital library at the University of Illinois containing 40 years of field research among Sephardic communities in North America, the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, North Africa, and Israel by Professors Samuel Armistead, Joseph Silverman, and Israel Katz.
According to The Independent, " rows, however innocuous some of them seemed at the time, have become a trademark under Bragg: among the most notable have been Ben Elton vs Brenda Maddox, Rosie Boycott and Bragg vs novelist Kathy Lette, Armistead Maupin vs Libby Purves, and Bragg himself vs ( separately ) Joan Smith, Michael Dobbs, William Cash, Tony Parsons and Jean Aitchison.
Lewis Addison Armistead ( February 18, 1817 – July 5, 1863 ) was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, who was wounded, captured, and died after Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
The couple had one child, Lewis B. Armistead, who died on December 6, 1854, and was also buried at Jefferson Barracks next to Flora Lee Armistead.
Between 1855 and 1858 Armistead served at posts on the Smokey Hill River in Kansas Territory, Bent's Fort, Pole Creek, Laramie River, and Republican Fork of the Kansas River in Nebraska Territory.
Captain Armistead was left with two infantry companies and the column's artillery to garrison Hoffman's encampment at Beale's Crossing on the east bank of the Colorado River, Camp Colorado.
When the Civil War began, Captain Armistead was in command of the small garrison at the New San Diego Depot in San Diego, which was occupied in 1860.
Dr. Daniel Brinton, the chief surgeon at the Union hospital there, had expected Armistead to survive because he characterized the two bullet wounds as not of a " serious character.
Lewis Armistead is buried next to his uncle, Lieutenant Colonel George Armistead, commander of the garrison of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore, at the Old Saint Paul's Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.
In the film, the meeting between Armistead and Bingham at the High Water Mark was altered with Lt. Thomas Chamberlain ( portrayed by C. Thomas Howell ), brother of Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, taking Bingham's place.
Actor John Prosky depicted Armistead for a special appearance in Gods and Generals, accompanying Pickett at Fredericksburg.
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City premiered at the American Conservatory Theater in 2011, with a book by Jeff Whitty and the score by Jake Shears and John " JJ " Garden.
Armistead would go on to a successful career at Vanderbilt and was the captain and starting halfback for the 1927 team.
Writer Armistead Maupin spoke at their ceremony.
British commander Col. Arthur Brooke established his new headquarters at the Sterret House on Surrey Farm ( today called Armistead Gardens ), about two miles east-northeast of Hampstead Hill.

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