Frank Crawford Armstrong

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Frank Crawford Armstrong (November 22, 1835 – September 8, 1909) was a United States cavalry officer and later a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

A pre-war officer in the U.S. Cavalry, Captain Armstrong led Union cavalry forces at the First Battle of Bull Run. However, following the decisive Union defeat, Armstrong resigned his commission and, in August 1861, enlisted in the Confederate Army. He would later served as a staff officer under Confederate generals James McIntosh and Ben McCulloch before their deaths at the Battle of Pea Ridge. He won promotion to brigadier general in 1863, and commanded a cavalry division under Nathan Bedford Forrest at the Battle of Chickamauga.

He is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C..

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Linedecker, Clifford L., ed. Civil War, A-Z: The Complete Handbook of America's Bloodiest Conflict. New York: Ballentine Books, 2002. ISBN 0-9141-878-4