2020-09 Putnal
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EVANS, Clement Anselm (1833-1911) was a Confederate army infantry general in the American Civil War. He was also a politician, preacher, historian and author. He edited a twelve-volume work on Confederate military history, so named, in 1899. War-date Confederate general Autograph Letter Signed "C.A. Evans Brig. Genl. Comdg." 1pp. folio, Head Quarters Gordon's Division, December 26, 1864, addressed to Colonel Walter H. Taylor, providing a list of ten officers "as suitable to constitute the detail for General Court Martial of this division..." with docket Autograph Endorsement Signed by General John B. Gordon. Fine condition. John Brown Gordon (1832-1904) was an attorney, a slaveholding plantation owner, general in the Confederate States Army, and politician in the postwar years. By the end of the Civil War, he had become "one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted generals."
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