FROM NOTES ON FAMILY HISTORY -- TRADITION AND FACT, AS REMEBERED BY ADELEM. MAYNARD. -- 1934
During the Civil War Gen. Lewis Armistead led PickettÕs Division atGettysburg -- leading his men up a hill to take the Union batteries; hecarried his hat on the point of his sword in order that his men mightdistinguish him and follow him. He was badly wounded and carried byUnion soldiers into the tent of Gen. Hancock (a close friend) where hedied. Years before the Civil War, his young wife had died, leaving aninfant son. My motherÕs father Maj. W. I. Newton was stationed at FortWashita, Indian Terriotroy (now Oklahoma), with him was the wife andinfant daughter (my mother) Elizabeth Stanley; young Capt. Armisteadbrought his infant son to his sister -- the brother, Armistead Newton,was talented and Brilliant, but dissipated and worthless; he disappearedmany years (about 50) ago; we have never heard what became of him, buthe must be dead. The sister, Cornelia Love Newton, eloped with a wildyoung man, a Lieut. [Gore] in the U. S. army, a gambler and a drunkard;she died, leaving two sons, Newton and James Gore; Newton is in aSanitarium in souther California, the probably victim of his own and hisfatherÕs sins; James is in San Francisco (1289) 2nd Avenue) he gas twosons and a daughter.
