This is the tombstone of Sgt. Armistead T Thompson. The inscriptions on the stone are:
IN MEMORY OF / ARMISTEAD T. THOMPSON / SON OF / Lawson T. & Fannie A. Thompson / A member of Co. C, 5 Regt. Va. Vols. / Who died at Point Lookout, Md. / a prisoner of war Nov. 23, 1864 / After an imprisonment of / 17 months. Age at death 27 years.
The unit Armistead had served in according to his company muster roll was actually 8th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment Co. G, instead of 5th Regiment Co. C.
Armistead was originally buried under lot 656 in the Point Lookout prison camp. His father, Lawson Thompson, finally found his son's body in the 1880s and retrieved the remains back to Fairfax, had them interred in the family cemetery.
