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11-1486: General Evans may refer to: Clement A. Evans (1833–1911), Confederate States Army brigadier general Frank Evans (general) (1876–1941), U.S. Marine Corps brigadier general Frederic Dahl Evans (1866–1953), U.S. Army brigadier general Geoffrey Charles Evans (1901–1987), British Army lieutenant general Harry L. Evans (1919–2008), U.S. Air Force major general Horace Moule Evans (1841–1923), British Indian Army general Jason T. Evans ( fl. 1980s–2020s), U.S. Army lieutenant general Lewis Pugh Evans (1881–1962), British Army brigadier general Mark Evans (general) (born 1953), Australian Army lieutenant general Nathan George Evans (1824–1868), Confederate States Army brigadier general Robert K. Evans (1852–1926), U.S. Army brigadier general Roger Evans (British Army officer) (1886–1968), British Army major general Thomas Evans (British Army officer) (1776–1863), British Army lieutenant general Tim Evans (British Army officer) (born 1962), British Army lieutenant general Vernon Evans (general) (1893–1987), U.S. Army major general William Evans (British Army officer) (fl. 1710s–1740s), British Army lieutenant general William Andrew Evans (born 1939), British Army major general William J. Evans (general) (1924–2000), U.S. Air Force general See also [ edit ] Attorney General Evans (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

22-540: A company of militia . Evans was commissioned as major of the 31st Georgia Infantry on November 19, 1861, and was promoted to colonel on May 13, 1862, fighting in the Seven Days Battles , Second Manassas , and Antietam . He had temporary command of Alexander Lawton 's Georgia brigade from September until November 1862, seeing additional action at Fredericksburg . During the Gettysburg Campaign and

33-642: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Clement A. Evans Brigadier-General Clement Anselm Evans (February 25, 1833 – July 2, 1911) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War . Afterwards, he edited a 12-volume work on Confederate military history, so named, in 1899. Clement Anselm Evans

44-704: The Confederate Military History , a 12-volume compendium, first published in 1899. Finally, he co-authored the four-volume Cyclopedia of Georgia . Regarding the war, Evans said: If we cannot justify the South in the act of Secession, we will go down in History solely as a brave, impulsive but rash people who attempted in an illegal manner to overthrow the Union of our Country. Evans was very active in establishing and administering fraternal veterans organizations following

55-560: The Deep South . It was modeled after the influential Litchfield Law School , and was founded by William Tracy Gould , a graduate of Litchfield and the son of its director, James Gould . The law school closed in 1854. A second Augusta Law School opened in Augusta, Georgia on December 7, 1947. W. K. Miller was its dean. It operated into the 1980s. It had a chapter of Sigma Delta Kappa law fraternity. This law school related article

66-526: The 1864 fighting at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania , Evans again commanded the 31st Georgia while John Brown Gordon commanded the brigade. Evans was promoted to brigadier general in May 1864 (replacing Gordon who ascended to division command) and was wounded at Monocacy . He commanded Gordon's Division, Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia , from Petersburg to Appomattox . Evans survived five wounds during

77-513: The capitol building while the state legislature adjourned for a day to attend his funeral. He was buried in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery , just a few feet away from the grave of John Gordon. Evans County, Georgia (established November 3, 1914) is named after him. Augusta Law School Augusta Law School was first established in Augusta, Georgia in 1833. It was the first law school in Georgia and in

88-466: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title General Evans . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=General_Evans&oldid=1224391142 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Title and name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

99-541: The war. After the war ended, he became an influential Methodist minister, advancing the “ holiness movement ,” a controversial doctrine that eventually split the denomination. He pastored churches in the Atlanta area, some with memberships as large as 1,000, until his retirement in 1892. Three years later, Evans authored the Military History of Georgia , heavily based upon his Civil War memoirs. He then edited and co-wrote

110-654: The war. He helped organize the Confederate Survivors Association (a regional group based in Augusta, Georgia ) in 1878 and served as its first president. He was a founder of the first national Confederate veterans group, the United Confederate Veterans , in 1889 and commander of the UCV's Georgia division for 12 years. Evans died in Atlanta on July 2, 1911: his body lay in state in the central rotunda of

121-540: Was born in Stewart County, Georgia . In 1854 Evans married Mary Allen "Allie" Walton whose marriage brought eight children, three of whom died in infancy. He studied at the Augusta Law School in Augusta, Georgia , and was admitted to the bar at the age of 18. By the age of 21, he was a county judge, and a state senator at the age of 25. With the election of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1860, Evans organized

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