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Federal (USV)

Private

Leverett F. Evans

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1850 he was 10 years old, probably by then an orphan, and lived with farmer Darling Stuart/Stewart and his family in Meriden, CT. In 1860 he was a 20 year old worker on the Augustus Foot farm at Branford, also in New Haven County, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September 1861.

On the Campaign

"Aged 22 years, of small stature and feeble build," he was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot that entered his mouth and exited from the back of his neck just to the left of his spine. He lost a lot of blood and was faint for several hours afterward.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital then admitted to US Army General Hospital #2 in the City Hotel in Frederick, MD on 2 October and transferred to General Hospital #1 there on 9 October. He seemed to be doing well until 31 October, when he began to bleed. On 13 November 1862

after eating breakfast, his mouth was observed to turn inward; all facial expression on the left side was gone. In an hour, muttering delirium occurred. Death resulted on November 14th, 1862.

An autopsy found his carotid artery had been cut by the bullet and partially closed by coagulation, but later disintegrated. He was originally buried in Frederick.

After the War

He was reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Record.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and the MSHWR,4 quoted above. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840 in CT

Death

11/14/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3471]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889 [AotW citation 25161]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #638, 5.094 [AotW citation 25162]

4 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 432 [AotW citation 31435]

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