1817
- CS Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead is born, New Bern, NC. He
would attend West Point, but would not graduate – due to an alleged feud with another future Confederate general, Jubal Early. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Armistead would be commissioned colonel of the 57th Virginia Infantry. In the spring of 1862, Armistead would be promoted brigadier general. He would command in many of the largest battles in the eastern theater: Peninsula Campaign, Seven Days, Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. Armistead would be killed, during CS Major General George E. Pickett’s Charge, at Gettysburg. Friends with US Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, Armistead would die within a few yards of his friend.