GRAPHIC Confederate General Clement A. Evans lying in state in the Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta, 1911

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Brigadier-General Clement A. Evans began his military service
in the secession movement by aiding in the organization of a
company of infantry in his native county in December, 1860,
which subsequently joined the Second Georgia regiment.

Resigning his position in that company, he enlisted in Company
E, Thirty-first Georgia infantry, and was commissioned major.
In April, 1862, he was elected colonel, whereupon he tendered
his command to Gen. A. R. Lawton, and from that date his
regiment served in the brigade successively commanded by
Lawton, Gordon and himself.

With the exception of a few months on the defensive lines
below Savannah, his entire military service was rendered in
the Virginia campaigns with the division commanded by
Stonewall Jackson, Early and Gordon. He was commissioned
brigadier-general May 19, 1863, and when Maj.-Gen. J. B.
Gordon was assigned to command of the Second army corps as
acting lieutenant-general, in November, 1864, he was at the
same time promoted to the command of the division.

In this position he served at first on the right of Lee's army
at Hatcher's run, and subsequently in the trenches immediately
opposite Petersburg. In the retreat of Lee, his division was
in some kind of fighting almost daily, and in the final attack
at Appomattox he led it into action, being engaged at the
moment of the actual surrender.

General Evans was in nearly all the battles in Virginia, and
was five times wounded, twice severely. His military training
for the war was obtained in the volunteer companies to which
he belonged in his youth.

Previous to the war he was a lawyer, having been graduated by
the Augusta law school, and admitted to the bar in the
nineteenth year of his age. He practiced in his native county
of Stewart, in Georgia, was elected judge of his county court
at the age of twenty-one, state senator at twenty-five, was on
the Breckinridge electoral ticket which carried Georgia in
1860, and while senator entered the Confederate army.

After the war he was engaged in the ministry of the Methodist
church for twenty-five years, but being troubled by his old
wounds, retired. He then employed himself in business
affair's, and is so engaged at the date of this writing.

General Evans has also been frequently charged with public
trusts. He is trustee of three colleges, president of an
educational loan fund association which he originated and
which has aided over a hundred young men in gaining college
education, president or treasurer of a number of other
institutions, and one of the Georgia commissioners in charge
of the new penal system of the State.

With unabating regard for his Confederate comrades, he has
taken great interest in the work of the United Confederate
Veterans and other organizations of like character. His
residence is Atlanta, Ga.

Source: Confederate Military History, vol. VII, p. 415
 
He was much depressed by the carnage he had seen at Fredericksburg where he commanded the 31st Georgia and after the war he entered the church as a Methodist Preacher for over 25 years.
My gg grandfather enlisted on Oct 1, 1864 in Forrest's Escort. Just in time for Franklin/Nashville. He became a mule riding circuit Methodist preacher as well.
 
My gg grandfather enlisted on Oct 1, 1864 in Forrest's Escort. Just in time for Franklin/Nashville. He became a mule riding circuit Methodist preacher as well.
Reb- I'm glad he survived Franklin & Nashville. Your gg grandfather must have been some Quality Soldier being in Forrest's Escort ! They were an Elite Force ! Rio
 
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