Son of William James Armstrong (1813-1847)
A Confederate Soldier in the Civil War, in which he died 25th August 1861. He enlisted as a Clerk in Virginia on 18th May, 1861, was immediately made a Third Sergeant in the Frontier Riflemen, also known as Co. I, 13th Virginia Infantry, under Captain Robert White, and later was certainly a First Sergeant in the same Company. (Confederate Rosters Vol.2, p.100). This regiment saw some of the toughest battles in the Civil War and was finally decimated. B. W. Armstrong was described as a man of superior education who died of a fever in August, 1861. He was in every way a gentleman.
"Burial of Baker White Armstrong" - a note from his Pastor William Henry Foote (father of Anne Waterman Armstrong nee Foote #12618421).
"1861 Aug. Tuesday 27th. P.M."
"I have just returned from the funeral of one of my pupils & young man of my Congregation, Baker White Armstrong. His father was suddenly snatched away when he was a child. I helped to educate him. His mother, daughter of Mr. White the Clerk. While a boy he was wayward - often mulish - would not get his lessons - but was always kind hearted. He loved his mother & yet would often make? his mother switch him for his waywardness; When the war came he seemed to drop his boyishness - & took the ranks full comps.? He looked like a youthful soldier - not muscular but well formed. The camp life was too hard for him. He got sick but would not give it out. The commanding officers liked him & he got some promotions - & would not give up the soldiers life -."
"In one of his fits of sickness (- poor boy) he that was deeply affected in the revival in my church in 1859 & will against all our prayers & exhortations stood? it out - in his sickness he gave up his heart to God & began to live as Christian -------"
"This day week I heard he had been brought over from the camp - called? the transfer? - to Mr. Jacob Baker in Winchester sick with Typhoid. I called to see him on Wednesday & found him very sick. His Uncle James (James Dillon Armstrong [J.A]) staid with him: .............. two nights - & on Friday night at 10 P.M. came to J.C. Bakers when our Judge stated? he could not leave his nephew for Romney. I came to Romney alone: & met Bakers friends & kindred going down - yesterday P.M. I had ridden up to Mr. John Pancakes to get Mary's Meladron? for her son/use? - & while sitting at Mr. Pancakes a note was put in my hand which told me the youth was dead & his corpse would be in Romney by 5 o'clock P.M. or soon after."
"I returned home. At tea Mr. J.D A. told me that the last sentence he spoke to him was - after putting? him down to his face he with his dying lips & festered? tongue made out to say 'Uncle James - I have the love of God in my heart' ."
"I held a short Session at his grandfathers soon after 9 o'clock this A.M. & then preached in the church? from these? words - A man's life consists? not in the abundance of the things which he possesses. ---- 12.13. - At his grave I simply said - 'My young friend you have laid a young man in his grave' - 'I pray you remember - he has not gone down to a coward's grave'. I found? a wreath of flowers was on his head on the coffin - & his sword lay over his heart."
A Confederate Soldier in the Civil War, in which he died 25th August 1861. He enlisted as a Clerk in Virginia on 18th May, 1861, was immediately made a Third Sergeant in the Frontier Riflemen, also known as Co. I, 13th Virginia Infantry, under Captain Robert White, and later was certainly a First Sergeant in the same Company. (Confederate Rosters Vol.2, p.100). This regiment saw some of the toughest battles in the Civil War and was finally decimated. B. W. Armstrong was described as a man of superior education who died of a fever in August, 1861. He was in every way a gentleman.
"Burial of Baker White Armstrong" - a note from his Pastor William Henry Foote (father of Anne Waterman Armstrong nee Foote #12618421).
"1861 Aug. Tuesday 27th. P.M."
"I have just returned from the funeral of one of my pupils & young man of my Congregation, Baker White Armstrong. His father was suddenly snatched away when he was a child. I helped to educate him. His mother, daughter of Mr. White the Clerk. While a boy he was wayward - often mulish - would not get his lessons - but was always kind hearted. He loved his mother & yet would often make? his mother switch him for his waywardness; When the war came he seemed to drop his boyishness - & took the ranks full comps.? He looked like a youthful soldier - not muscular but well formed. The camp life was too hard for him. He got sick but would not give it out. The commanding officers liked him & he got some promotions - & would not give up the soldiers life -."
"In one of his fits of sickness (- poor boy) he that was deeply affected in the revival in my church in 1859 & will against all our prayers & exhortations stood? it out - in his sickness he gave up his heart to God & began to live as Christian -------"
"This day week I heard he had been brought over from the camp - called? the transfer? - to Mr. Jacob Baker in Winchester sick with Typhoid. I called to see him on Wednesday & found him very sick. His Uncle James (James Dillon Armstrong [J.A]) staid with him: .............. two nights - & on Friday night at 10 P.M. came to J.C. Bakers when our Judge stated? he could not leave his nephew for Romney. I came to Romney alone: & met Bakers friends & kindred going down - yesterday P.M. I had ridden up to Mr. John Pancakes to get Mary's Meladron? for her son/use? - & while sitting at Mr. Pancakes a note was put in my hand which told me the youth was dead & his corpse would be in Romney by 5 o'clock P.M. or soon after."
"I returned home. At tea Mr. J.D A. told me that the last sentence he spoke to him was - after putting? him down to his face he with his dying lips & festered? tongue made out to say 'Uncle James - I have the love of God in my heart' ."
"I held a short Session at his grandfathers soon after 9 o'clock this A.M. & then preached in the church? from these? words - A man's life consists? not in the abundance of the things which he possesses. ---- 12.13. - At his grave I simply said - 'My young friend you have laid a young man in his grave' - 'I pray you remember - he has not gone down to a coward's grave'. I found? a wreath of flowers was on his head on the coffin - & his sword lay over his heart."
Son of William James Armstrong (1813-1847)
A Confederate Soldier in the Civil War, in which he died 25th August 1861. He enlisted as a Clerk in Virginia on 18th May, 1861, was immediately made a Third Sergeant in the Frontier Riflemen, also known as Co. I, 13th Virginia Infantry, under Captain Robert White, and later was certainly a First Sergeant in the same Company. (Confederate Rosters Vol.2, p.100). This regiment saw some of the toughest battles in the Civil War and was finally decimated. B. W. Armstrong was described as a man of superior education who died of a fever in August, 1861. He was in every way a gentleman.
"Burial of Baker White Armstrong" - a note from his Pastor William Henry Foote (father of Anne Waterman Armstrong nee Foote #12618421).
"1861 Aug. Tuesday 27th. P.M."
"I have just returned from the funeral of one of my pupils & young man of my Congregation, Baker White Armstrong. His father was suddenly snatched away when he was a child. I helped to educate him. His mother, daughter of Mr. White the Clerk. While a boy he was wayward - often mulish - would not get his lessons - but was always kind hearted. He loved his mother & yet would often make? his mother switch him for his waywardness; When the war came he seemed to drop his boyishness - & took the ranks full comps.? He looked like a youthful soldier - not muscular but well formed. The camp life was too hard for him. He got sick but would not give it out. The commanding officers liked him & he got some promotions - & would not give up the soldiers life -."
"In one of his fits of sickness (- poor boy) he that was deeply affected in the revival in my church in 1859 & will against all our prayers & exhortations stood? it out - in his sickness he gave up his heart to God & began to live as Christian -------"
"This day week I heard he had been brought over from the camp - called? the transfer? - to Mr. Jacob Baker in Winchester sick with Typhoid. I called to see him on Wednesday & found him very sick. His Uncle James (James Dillon Armstrong [J.A]) staid with him: .............. two nights - & on Friday night at 10 P.M. came to J.C. Bakers when our Judge stated? he could not leave his nephew for Romney. I came to Romney alone: & met Bakers friends & kindred going down - yesterday P.M. I had ridden up to Mr. John Pancakes to get Mary's Meladron? for her son/use? - & while sitting at Mr. Pancakes a note was put in my hand which told me the youth was dead & his corpse would be in Romney by 5 o'clock P.M. or soon after."
"I returned home. At tea Mr. J.D A. told me that the last sentence he spoke to him was - after putting? him down to his face he with his dying lips & festered? tongue made out to say 'Uncle James - I have the love of God in my heart' ."
"I held a short Session at his grandfathers soon after 9 o'clock this A.M. & then preached in the church? from these? words - A man's life consists? not in the abundance of the things which he possesses. ---- 12.13. - At his grave I simply said - 'My young friend you have laid a young man in his grave' - 'I pray you remember - he has not gone down to a coward's grave'. I found? a wreath of flowers was on his head on the coffin - & his sword lay over his heart."
A Confederate Soldier in the Civil War, in which he died 25th August 1861. He enlisted as a Clerk in Virginia on 18th May, 1861, was immediately made a Third Sergeant in the Frontier Riflemen, also known as Co. I, 13th Virginia Infantry, under Captain Robert White, and later was certainly a First Sergeant in the same Company. (Confederate Rosters Vol.2, p.100). This regiment saw some of the toughest battles in the Civil War and was finally decimated. B. W. Armstrong was described as a man of superior education who died of a fever in August, 1861. He was in every way a gentleman.
"Burial of Baker White Armstrong" - a note from his Pastor William Henry Foote (father of Anne Waterman Armstrong nee Foote #12618421).
"1861 Aug. Tuesday 27th. P.M."
"I have just returned from the funeral of one of my pupils & young man of my Congregation, Baker White Armstrong. His father was suddenly snatched away when he was a child. I helped to educate him. His mother, daughter of Mr. White the Clerk. While a boy he was wayward - often mulish - would not get his lessons - but was always kind hearted. He loved his mother & yet would often make? his mother switch him for his waywardness; When the war came he seemed to drop his boyishness - & took the ranks full comps.? He looked like a youthful soldier - not muscular but well formed. The camp life was too hard for him. He got sick but would not give it out. The commanding officers liked him & he got some promotions - & would not give up the soldiers life -."
"In one of his fits of sickness (- poor boy) he that was deeply affected in the revival in my church in 1859 & will against all our prayers & exhortations stood? it out - in his sickness he gave up his heart to God & began to live as Christian -------"
"This day week I heard he had been brought over from the camp - called? the transfer? - to Mr. Jacob Baker in Winchester sick with Typhoid. I called to see him on Wednesday & found him very sick. His Uncle James (James Dillon Armstrong [J.A]) staid with him: .............. two nights - & on Friday night at 10 P.M. came to J.C. Bakers when our Judge stated? he could not leave his nephew for Romney. I came to Romney alone: & met Bakers friends & kindred going down - yesterday P.M. I had ridden up to Mr. John Pancakes to get Mary's Meladron? for her son/use? - & while sitting at Mr. Pancakes a note was put in my hand which told me the youth was dead & his corpse would be in Romney by 5 o'clock P.M. or soon after."
"I returned home. At tea Mr. J.D A. told me that the last sentence he spoke to him was - after putting? him down to his face he with his dying lips & festered? tongue made out to say 'Uncle James - I have the love of God in my heart' ."
"I held a short Session at his grandfathers soon after 9 o'clock this A.M. & then preached in the church? from these? words - A man's life consists? not in the abundance of the things which he possesses. ---- 12.13. - At his grave I simply said - 'My young friend you have laid a young man in his grave' - 'I pray you remember - he has not gone down to a coward's grave'. I found? a wreath of flowers was on his head on the coffin - & his sword lay over his heart."
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