FROM NOTES ON FAMILY HISTORY -- TRADITION AND FACT, AS REMEBERED BY ADELEM. MAYNARD. -- 1934
During the Civil War Gen. Lewis Armistead led Pickett's Division atGettysburg -- leading his men up a hill to take the Union batteries; he carried his hat on the point of his sword in order that his men might distinguish him and follow him. He was badly wounded and carried by Union soldiers into the tent of Gen. Hancock (a close friend) where he died. Years before the Civil War, his young wife had died, leaving an infant son. My mother's 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 disappeared many years (about 50) ago; we have never heard what became of him, but he must be dead. The sister, Cornelia Love Newton, eloped with a wild young 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 a Sanitarium in souther California, the probably victim of his own and his father's sins; James is in San Francisco (1289) 2nd Avenue) he has two sons and a daughter.
