Warren Earl Evans

Son of a farmer, age 18, and going by Earl, he enlisted in Dryden, NY on 25 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 76th New York Infantry on 4 October. In August 1862 he was detailed to care for the regiment's wounded from the battle of Cedar Mountain in a hospital at Culpeper, VA.

He rejoined his company in Maryland about 13 September and, in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on the 14th:

... the Color-Sergeant, Charles E. Stamp, was killed, when the colors were taken by Evans and carried through that battle and the succeeding one at Antietam [on 17 September].

He was promoted to Sergeant on 28 November 1862 for "bravery and meritorious services at Antietam." He reenlisted on 18 February 1864 and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant of Company H on 11 March (to date from 17 February). He was slightly wounded in the head at Petersburg, VA on 1 June 1864 and was promoted to First Lieutenant on 8 July. He was appointed Captain on 19 August, transferred to Company B, date not given, and was discharged on 15 December 1864 near Petersburg, VA.

In 1865 he was living with his twice-widowed mother Mary and 6 siblings in Bath, Steuben County, NY. In 1900 he was an "evangelist" in Kansas City, KS and lived there to at least 1920, when he was a 76 year old mechanic in a auto repair shop there. He was briefly a resident of the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, OH from March into August 1929, suffering from deafness, defective vision, myocarditis, and hernia. Afterward he was a general merchandise salesman in Oroville in Butte County, CA in 1930, then 86 years old.

His service from the State of New York1 with further details and the quotes above from Smith's History.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1900-1930, the New York State Census of 1855 & 1865, his pension applications of 1890 and later, and the Registers;3 he's also seen variously as Earl Evens, Earl W Evens, W. Earle Evans, etc. His picture here from an 1864 photograph (RG98S-CWP202.101) in the collection of the US Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, PA; thanks to John Banks for finding a copy of that.

He married Gertrude Lydia Paine (1845-1877) in October 1865 and they had a son who died in infancy. He married again, Ella Belle Baker (1858-1889) in May 1878 and they had a daughter, Estelle Belle. He married for the third time, Ida May Smith (1865-1905) in July 1889 and they had two children. He married, fourth, Mary Louise Ballard in May 1913, but divorced her in February 1914; he said she was "an imposter" and had been married 4 times, which he learned only after marrying.

04/30/1843; Tompkins County, NY

03/30/1933; Butte County, CA