Nathan George Evans

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General Evans

Nathan George "Shanks" Evans (* 3. February 1824 in Marion , South Carolina ; † 23. November 1868 in Midway , Alabama ) was an officer of the US Army and Brigadier General of Confederate in the Civil War .

Life

Evans grew up in South Carolina and briefly attended Randolph Macon College in Boydton, Virginia before being called to the Military Academy in West Point , New York . He finished his studies in 1848 as the 36th of his class. Shanks then served as a lieutenant in the Dragoons and Cavalry on the Frontier to the west. In 1861 he quit his job.

Evans joined the Confederate Army , where he received the rank of colonel and was appointed brigade commander of a small brigade . With the brigade he took part in the first battle of the Bull Run on July 21, 1861 . He was then given command of another brigade with which he monitored the fords of the Upper Potomac . On October 21, 1861, he drove Union troops in the action at Balls Bluff from the Virginia bank near Leesburg , Virginia.

Shortly thereafter, he was promoted to brigadier general and command of the South Carolina 1st District Defense District. Since he took over his new command only a few days before the battle of Secessionville, he played no role in this dispute.

In July 1862 he was given command of a newly formed brigade made up of South Carolina regiments. The brigade was subordinated to General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and took part in the Second Battle of Manassas on August 30, 1862, the Battle of South Mountain on September 14, 1862, and the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862 .

In the summer of 1863, the brigade was placed under General Joseph E. Johnston’s command to relieve Vicksburg , Mississippi , Mississippi . The brigade then returned to Charleston, South Carolina , South Carolina. Evans was discharged from service for disobedience. After a serious injury after a traffic accident, it could no longer be used in the field. Evans found a job in the War Department and fled Richmond with the President , whom he accompanied until May 1, 1865.

After the war he became the head of a high school in Cokesbury, South Carolina and Midway, Alabama, where he died of the long-term effects of the traffic accident in 1868.

See also

literature

  • David J. Eicher, The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography , University of Illinois, 1997, ISBN 0-252-02273-4
  • Richard N. Current, Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 vol.) ( ISBN 0132759918 )
  • John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3
  • Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders , Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5

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personal data
SURNAME Evans, Nathan George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Evans, Shanks (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION General of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Marion , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1868
Place of death Midway , Alabama