Armstead
Character Key Number:
2891
Display Name:
Armstead
Sort Name:
Armistead, Lewis
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The Confederate officer Faulkner calls "Armstead" in Intruder in the Dust (190) is undoubtedly Lewis Armistead, who commanded one of the brigades in Pickett's division that led the famous charge against the Yankee army on the last day of the battle of Gettysburg. Armistead along with some of his unit advanced further in that attack than any other rebels; he was mortally wounded just as he reached the stone wall that marked the Union lines.