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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John W. Evans

(c. 1842 - 1863)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer living with his parents, 4 siblings, and (#?) slaves on their farm at Leasburg in Caswell County, NC. He enlisted there on 1 May 1861 and mustered in Raleigh as a Private in Company D of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 May. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862 and captured near Boonsboro, MD the next day.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner in Fort Delaware until 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November and returned to duty in about January 1863. He was wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May and killed at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, also as John W.T. Evans.

Birth

c. 1842; Caswell County, NC

Death

07/01/1863; Gettysburg, PA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33271]

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