Armistead Churchill Gordon (December 20, 1855 – October 21, 1931) was a Virginia lawyer and a prolific writer of prose and poetry.

[1][2] His father had graduated from the University of Virginia and practiced law as well as edited the Alexandria Sentinel before his marriage, and would die fighting for the Confederacy with the 15th North Carolina (Edgecompe Guards) at the Battle of Malvern Hill in 1862.

His grandfather, Congressman William F. Gordon, operated several plantations using enslaved labor and also served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S.

[3][4] His maternal ancestors included William Randolph and John Stith, of the First Families of Virginia.

He had sisters and a younger brother James who would likewise become an attorney and serve in the state senate before moving to New York City.

Gordon attended the University of Virginia for two years, beginning in 1873, and then taught at Charlottesville Institute and the high school.

[7][11] Together, they had five children:[1][7] Gordon received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the College of William & Mary in 1906.

A Virginian of the Old School: His Life, Times, and Contemporaries (1787-1858)(New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1909) Armistead C. Gordon & Edwin Alderman, J.L.M.

), Virginian Writers of Fugitive Verse (:New York: J. T. White & Co., 1923) Armistead C. Gordon (ed.