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Lewis Addison Armistead was born on February 18, 1817 in New Bern, North Carolina to Walker Keith Armistead and Elizabeth Stanly. Lewis grew up near the mountains of Virginia on the family farm, Ben Lomond, near the town of Upperville, Virginia. He was accepted to West Point on March 21, 1833 but tendered his resignation to the school (for the second time, the first time, because of an illness that left him behind in his studies his first year at West Point and he was certain to fail his annual exam) on January 29, 1836 for the incident of "cracking...

Jeff Shaara said his father would have been thrilled to know his book "The Killer Angels" was chosen for the "One Book, Two Counties" program in Cumberland and Dauphin counties. "His one goal was to leave something behind he'd be remembered for," Shaara said to more than 260 people who packed into Dickinson College's Rubendall Recital Hall Monday evening.Shaara then spent several minutes weaving a tale that began in 1964, when he and his father, Michael Shaara, visited the Gettysburg Battlefield for the first time."I was a kid and I was the Civil War buff," he says, explaining that's why...