Was the Battle of Fort McHenry the Beginning of the End for Major Armistead?-- Part 2

Sam Smith's Book blog calls Armistead's death and example of PTSD.

As I wrote a couple blogs ago, historian Benson Lossing wrote that the defense of the fort placed a "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 the age of thirty eight years.

Anyway you look at it, Major George Armistead died at quite a young age.

--Brock-Perry