General Lewis “Lo” Armistead understood on July 4,1863, this would be his last charge. He knew there was little chance of survival marching more than a mile over an open field against the Union in a defensive position behind a stone wall. Below is a picture of Anthony and Steven at the tree line before we walked retraced General Armistead’s march over the field to the stone wall at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
Below is a video of Pickett’s division prior to their march from the movie “Gettysburg”. The Army of Northern Virginia would never fully recover from the slaughter of Pickett’s Charge suffering 50% casualties and devastating the officer corps. General Armistead’s best friend, Winfield Hancock was commanding the Union forces on the other side of the field.
This is the ending sequence of the march. The gentleman who yells “Let’s go Boys!” after General Armistead sticks his saber through his hat was Ted Turner in a cameo role who financed the production of “Gettysburg”.
We found the marker at the stone wall where General Armistead was mortally wounded, who died two days later in a Union field hospital. He was eventually buried in Maryland, next to his uncle George Armistead, the commander of the garrison at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore (War of 1812 against the British) which inspired the Star Spangled Banner.
The actor who portrayed General Armistead, Richard Jordon, died of a brain tumor before in the movie Gettysburg was released.
[Credit to Turner Pictures, “Gettysburg” and the video posts from madhess1 and rob9641]
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