William J. Evans

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 2 siblings on their small farm at Jonathan Creek in Haywood County, NC. He enlisted in Waynesville, NC on 29 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 25th North Carolina Infantry on 20 July. He was wounded on 10 June 1862 "by a deserter."

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 8 October, formally exchanged on 10 November 1862, and was back with his company by the end of 1862. He was promoted to 3rd Sergeant on 31 November 1863 and was First Sergeant by December 1864. He was on furlough of indulgence but failed to return on 4 February 1865 and was listed as a deserter with no later military record.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Waynesville in Haywood County, NC but by 1880 was farming in Jefferson County, TN; then suffering with kidney trouble, but he did have a live-in servant. By 1900 he was back in Haywood County, NC, a minister at Beaver Dam and in 1910 was farming there.

His widow Sallie applied for a pension based on his Confederate service in August 1913.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Ann "Sallie" Blalock (1841-1923) in June 1863.

06/07/1843; Bethel, NC

12/28/1912; Haywood County, NC; burial in Plains Methodist Church Cemetery, Canton, NC