George Armistead-- Part 6: An Early Death

Following the battle, Armistead was brevetted to lieutenant colonel.  Much weakened by his arduous preparations, he died in at age 38, just four years later in 1818.

Historian Benson Lossing wrote that Armistead was a victim of the British attack.  "The tax upon his nervous system during that bombardment left him with a disease of the heart... on the 25 of April, 1818, he expired at age of thirty eight years."

His funeral procession was described as "immense" and his name was immortalized by the construction of a marble monument that overlooks the city.

--Brock-Perry