On February 15, 2000 the Armistead Marker Preservation Committee (AMPC) erected a marker at the site of the 11th Corps Field Hospital at the entrance of the George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg, PA to commemorate the friendship between Major General Winfield Scott Hancock and Brig. General Lewis Addison Armistead.
Brig. General Armistead was taken to the 11th Corps Field Hospital on July 3rd after being wounded in Pickett's Charge at the Angle and subsequently died here on July 5, 1863.
A Dedication ceremony took place on April 8, 2000 at 9:00 AM with historian, Wayne Motts as the main speaker.
The Marker reads:
Armistead (Masonic Emblem) Hancock
Friends and Fellow Officers in the United States Army prior
to 1861. The fate of the Civil War made them foes on the Battlefield
at Gettysburg. Confederate Brig. General Lewis A. Armistead and
Union Major General Winfield S. Hancock were both wounded
in Longstreet's assault, Pickett's Charge, July 3, 1863.
Here at the Union Army 11th Corps Field Hospital, George Spangler
Farm, Armistead died of his wounds on July 5, 1863. Northwest
of the Marker is the site where Hancock was initially treated for
his wounds. Hancock survived the War and became a well known
military, political and civil leader. He died on active military
duty at Governor's Island, New York on February 9, 1886.
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by the Armistead Marker Preservation Committee
February 15, 2000
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