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CLEMENT ANSELM EVANS

Gen. C. A. Evans is a native Georgian; practiced law, served as County Judge and State Senator preceding the war of the sixties. He has also been a minister of the gospel.

Enlisting promptly in the Confederate Army, he was made Major and was advanced successively to Colonel and Brigadier General, and to Acting Major General in Army of Northern Virginia, so serving to the end.

After the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox, he returned to the practice of law in Georgia. In later years he has served as Prison Commissioner for his State, and devotes much time to literary work. He edited the "Confederate Military History", twelve volumes, and has been active in Confederate organizations throughout. He has commanded the Georgia Division, U. C. V., as Major General, the Army of Tennessee Department and Lieutenant General. He was elected Commander in Chief United Confederate Veterans after the death of Gen. Stephen D. Lee, and reëlected since.