Burwell, Armistead, 1839-1913.

Armistead Burwell enlisted 12 May 1861, at age 21. He was a farmer. He was wounded Drewy's Bluff 16 May 1864 and paroled Richmond May 1865.His brother Charles S. Burwell enlisted Clarksville, 12 May 1861. He was a farmer also and was discharged with a disability 9 September 1862.

Armistead Burwell (1839-1913) was a lawyer of Charlotte, N.C., state senator, and North Carolina supreme court judge. He was the son of Reverend Robert Burwell and Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell. He was educated at Davidson College and was teaching in Princeton, Ark., in 1861 when he joined the Confederate Army, serving with the 3rd Arkansas Cavalry, and becoming captain on the staff of General F. C. Armstrong. He began the practice of law in Charlotte, N.C., 1869, in various partnerships with Calvin E. Grier, Zebulon B. Vance, Platt D. Walker, and E. T. Cansler. He was also director of the North Carolina Railroad. He married Ella Jenkins of Salisbury, N.C., a sister of Mrs. Eben Nye Hutchinson of Charlotte. They had three children, Armistead Burwell Junior, Birdie (Mrs. Richard C.) Carson, and Fannie (Mrs. Word H.) Wood.

Lawyer of Charlotte, N.C., state senator, and North Carolina supreme court judge.