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Travis Evans

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Travis Evans

Birth
Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA
Death
12 Jan 1896 (aged 76)
South Carolina, USA
Burial
Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Son of William A. Evans and Cynthia Morning Diggs. Husband of Charlotte Shehorn Blakeney.

Served in the Georgetown Reserves,CSA.

Travis Evans: Regiment Name: 4th South Carolina State Troops Company K
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private

Film Number M381 roll 10

Travis Evans wrote a letter to his wife: Dec 19th 1862 from CAMP CHESTNUT in Georgetown.

Part of the letter reads:
"Dear wife, I take the pleasure of writing you a few lines informing you I am not very well. I have a very bad head ache & a very bad cold. I stood all night on guard duty I think was the cause. We get beaf & rice one day & rice & beef next day, sometimes a little sugar. We get plenty such as it is. There has been three deaths in camp since I have been here and a good many are sick............"
Son of William A. Evans and Cynthia Morning Diggs. Husband of Charlotte Shehorn Blakeney.

Served in the Georgetown Reserves,CSA.

Travis Evans: Regiment Name: 4th South Carolina State Troops Company K
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private

Film Number M381 roll 10

Travis Evans wrote a letter to his wife: Dec 19th 1862 from CAMP CHESTNUT in Georgetown.

Part of the letter reads:
"Dear wife, I take the pleasure of writing you a few lines informing you I am not very well. I have a very bad head ache & a very bad cold. I stood all night on guard duty I think was the cause. We get beaf & rice one day & rice & beef next day, sometimes a little sugar. We get plenty such as it is. There has been three deaths in camp since I have been here and a good many are sick............"


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