William Thomas Evans, Jr.

In 1860 he was living on his wealthy father's large plantation, Oak Hall, near Marion in the Marion District, SC, with his parents, 2 siblings, and 129 slaves. He enlisted at Lightwood Knott, SC on 2 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, First South Carolina Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 22 October, then transferred to Fort McHenry in Baltimore, where he was paroled for exchange in November 1862.

He was discharged by paying for a substitute, J.C. Turner, on 8 March 1863.

He enlisted again, conscripted in February 1864, and was assigned as a Private to Captain Chichester's Artillery Company (Gist Guard/Gilchrist's Heavy Artillery) at Charleston, SC. He arranged a swap with a solider in Captain Thomas Gregg's Company C of the South Carolina Siege Train (aka Company C, Manigault's Artillery Battalion) on James Island, SC and transferred to that unit that same month. He's on their muster rolls to April 1864, the last record in the file.

In 1870 he was farming back in Marion, SC and lived next door to his parents. He inherited the family's Oak Hall plantation at his father's death in 1876 and lived and farmed there to his death in 1920. He also served 8 years as County Sheriff.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, notably James Daniel Evans in History of Nathaniel Evans of Cat Fish Creek and his Descendants (1905), online [large pdf], and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lucinda Cornelia "Lucie" Stith (1847-1871) in January 1869 and they had a daughter Virginia (1870-1895).

For more about the Evans family and Oak Hill, see a piece in the Columbia, SC The State of 31 January 1932, online from Newspapers.com.

12/01/1838; Marion District, SC

02/06/1920; Marion County, SC; burial in Old Town Cemetery, Marion, SC