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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Notes and Queries. did General Armistead fight on the Federal side at First Manassas or confess when dying at Gettysburg that he had been engaged in an Unholy cause? (search)
r followed his convictions of duty into the Confederate army: 1. In reference to the charge that he fought on the Union side at First Manassas (Bull Run), it is easy to show that it was a physical impossibility for him to have been present at that battle on either side. General L. A. Armistead was the son of General Walker K. Armistead, of the old army, was himself a West-Pointer, entered the Mexican war as First Lieutenant, was breveted Captain for gallant and meritorious conduct at Contreras, and Churubusco, and Major for his conduct at Molino del Rey. In March, 1855, he was commissioned Captain in the Sixth Infantry, and at the breaking out of the war he had been made Major and was serving on the Pacific coast. When Albert Sidney Johnston resigned his commission in the United States army, and, after being relieved by General Sumner, begun his weary and perilous journey across the plains, Major Armistead accompanied him. General Johston wrote as follows to his wife from Va