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 ".

Armistead took leave in October 1852 to go home and help his family.

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

While on leave Armistead married his second wife, the widow Cornelia Taliaferro Jamison, in Alexandria, Virginia, on March 17, 1853.

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.

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

In 1993, he starred in the short-lived detective series Moon Over Miami, and also won the role of Dr. Jon Fielding in the television adaptation of Tales of the City, based on the bestselling novels by Armistead Maupin.

* Armistead Maupin discusses Tales of the City on the BBC World Book Club

Noteworthy KQED television productions include the first installment of Armistead Maupin's miniseries Tales of the City, Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs, and a series of programs focusing on the historic neighborhoods in San Francisco, such as The Castro and The Fillmore District.

KQED was co-producer of the television adaptation of Armistead Maupin's novel, Tales of the City, which aired on PBS stations nationwide in January 1994.

General Hancock, for instance, spends much of the novel dreading the day he will have to fire on his friend in the Confederate Army, Lewis " Lo " Armistead.

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.

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

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 >

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.

During the nearly 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry, commencing before dawn on September 13 until the morning of September 14, 1814, Armistead alone knew the fort ’ s magazine was not bombproof.

* Profile page for George Armistead on Find A Grave

Ambrose R. Wright and Lewis A. Armistead ) on the Confederate right and D. H. Hill's division ( brigades of Brig.

When the train pulled into Lynchburg, VA, Wentworth Armistead ( a safe locker ) boarded the train so at the time of the wreck, there were 18 men on board.

Cato appears again at the end of the series when he does not tell on an African American Patriot spy, James Armistead, whose spying was crucial to the American victory at Yorktown, which ends the war for American independence.

Haynsworth was a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, being nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on February 19, 1957, to a seat vacated by Armistead Mason Dobie.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Writer Armistead Maupin spoke at their ceremony.