* James Armistead, America's first spy ; an African American who provided the information to the Continental Army that Cornwallis was headed to Yorktown in 1781.

The county was named for Jacob Tipton, father of Armistead Blevins, who supervised the organization of Shelby County.

It was awarded and nominated for numerous awards, including six American Library Association awards, a nomination for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Armistead Maupin, and has been incorporated into school curricula across the country.

The paper was founded by Lindsay C. Marshall and Armistead R. Michie as The Daily Banner, notable for being the Eastern Shore's first daily newspaper.

Lewis A. Armistead, Richard B. Garnett, and James L. Kemper, was on the right flank of the assault.

Kemper was wounded, and Garnett and Armistead did not survive.

During this tour he recognized and embraced James Armistead Lafayette, a free negro who took his last name to honor him ; while in Yorktown, the story of the event was reported by the Richmond Enquirer.

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.

Armistead was authorized by Washington to offer each leader $ 5, 000 to bring their followers in for transportation west, and to concede land in the south of Florida to those remaining.

In May 1841 Armistead was replaced by Col. William Jenkins Worth as commander of Army forces in Florida.

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.

Armistead, known to friends as " Lo " ( for Lothario ), was born in the home of his great-grandfather, John Wright Stanly, in New Bern, North Carolina, son of Walker Keith Armistead and Elizabeth Stanly Armistead.

Armistead was of English descent, and his family had been in Virginia since the early colonial period.

Walker Armistead and his five brothers served during the War of 1812 and one of them, Major George Armistead, was the commander of Fort McHenry during the British attack that inspired the words to the Star Spangled Banner.

Armistead continued in the Army after the Mexican War, assigned in 1849 to recruiting duty in Kentucky, where he was diagnosed with a severe case of erysipelas, but he later recovered.

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 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.

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.

Eventually after a few weeks of aggressive patrolling and skirmishes, Armistead was able to fight the Mohave in a battle between about 50 soldiers and 200 Mohave, resulting in three soldiers wounded.

This monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield marks the approximate place where Armistead was mortally wounded.

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

Bingham informed Armistead that Hancock, Armistead's old friend, had been commanding this part of the defensive line, but that Hancock, too, had just been wounded.

Armistead and Confederate Brigadier General Richard B. Garnett, who was also present at the dinner, are killed and Hancock is severely wounded as Armistead's and Garnett's brigades assault the position defended by Hancock's II Corps on Cemetery Ridge in Gettysburg during Pickett's Charge.

Armistead then served in Fort Towson, Arkansas, Fort Washita near the Oklahoma border.

Armistead led his brigade from the front, waving his hat from the tip of his saber, and reached the stone wall at the " Angle ", which served as the charge's objective.

Project reporter / investigators were hired, including David Brock, a self-described Republican " hitman ", and Rex Armistead, a former police officer with a white supremacist past who was reportedly paid $ 350, 000 for his efforts.

There, Armistead laid out an elaborate " Vince Foster murder scenario ", a scenario that Brock found implausible.

Cherry Hill was originally planned to be located in the area now known as " Armistead Gardens ", the first section built in 1953.

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 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.

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.

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.