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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

W. C. Evans

"Button"

(? - 1864)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Company M, First Texas Infantry when they organized in Trinity County, and mustered for Confederate service as Private on 5 May 1862 at Sumpter, TX. He was promoted to 2nd then First Sergeant, dates not given.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the back in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed by shell fire at Bermuda Hundred near Petersburg, VA in June 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as W.C. Earnes, and Simpson.2 Sharpsburg wound detail from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862.

Death

06/1864; Bermuda Hundred, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pg. 143 [AotW citation 1595]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 86 [AotW citation 21085]

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