EVANS, Nathan George "Shanks"

Affiliation:  Union

Born: February 3, 1824, Marion County SC

Died: November 23, 1868, Midway AL

Pre-War Profession:  Randolph-Macon College, West Point graduated as 36th out of 38 graduates in 1848, was brevetted 2nd Lieutenant and sent to the western frontier to serve in the 1st U.S. Dragoons, Indian fighter

War Service: He was given command of a brigade of Mississippi and Virginia troops and assigned to guard the upper fords of the Potomac River, above Washington, D.C. In October 1861, at the Battle of Ball's Bluff Evans' command drove the enemy into the Potomac River, inflicting great loss. Evans was promoted to brigadier general to be effective from the day of the battle. Evans' Brigade participated in the battles of Second Manassas, South Mountain and Antietam in 1862 and was then assigned to Eastern North Carolina to oppose a major Union raid on Kinston and Goldsboro.

Post War: High school principal in Cokesbury and then in Midway, Alabama