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== Brigadier General Lewis A. Armistead ==
[[File:Lewis_A._ArmisteadPicketts-Charge,-Battle-of-Gettysburg-in-1863-278439-large.jpg|thumbnail|250px|Brig left|Prominently featured in this painting of Pickett's Charge is Gen Lewis A. Armistead, circa 1861reaching for the gun with his hat high on his sword.]]Confederate Brigadier General Lewis Armistead was wounded one day after Estee. Armistead was a man in his early forties and a seasoned military veteran. He had attended West Point with some of the same men against whom he fought. Armistead is best remembered for his gallant attempt to breach Union lines on July 3, 1863 , as a member of the ill-fated “Pickett’s Charge.” As he reached the Union artillery, with his hat wielded high upon his sword, he was shot through the “fleshy part of the arm” and in the “right leg.”<ref>John Michael Priest, ''Into the Fight: Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg'' (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 1998), 162.</ref>Unlike Estee, his wounds were seemingly innocuous, albeit painful.
Armistead received his wounds on the final day of battle at Gettysburg. The general’s brigade penetrated the Union lines further than any other during the doomed charge. General Pickett’s division contained three brigades totaling 5,820 men. Of this number, little more than half (3,180) returned safely to their lines<ref>Priest, 199.</ref> General Armistead represented a number in all of the statistical columns: killed in action, wounded in action, and captured in action. On the brink of Confederate immortality, Armistead, “hat on the hilt of his sword,” breached the Union's line.<ref>Donald J. Frey, ''Longstreet's Assault-Pickett's Charge: The Lost Record of Pickett's Wounded''(Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 2000),139</ref> As the general reached the second line of Federal guns, he placed his hand upon the barrel of a cannon and shouted to his men, “The day is ours. Turn these guns upon them, boys.”<ref>Frey, 143.</ref>Almost immediately after the triumphant words left his mouth, he fell at the hands of a Union rifle.
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