Shanks
Subtitle: The Life and Wars of General Nathan G. Evans, CSA
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: July 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780306811470
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: historical; Civil war; Military History - U.S. Civil War; Military Personnel; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: American; USA; Military; Biography & Autobiography / Military; Military history; Military - Other; United States - Civil War
First sentence: In distant Wales a group of Baptists from the counties of Pembroke and Caermathen decided to immigrate to America.
Description: "Nathan G. Evans, nicknamed "Shanks" in his youth, was a prominent and important Confederate officer. He distinguished himself in the early war years, and his brigade was so well traveled - fighting in so many battles - it was nicknamed the "Tramp Brigade" and became one of the South's more famous units.".

"Shanks covers Evans's entire career, from his brave stand with a brigade at the famous stone bridge at First Manassas to his controversial months in North and South Carolina, where his erratic and harsh behavior earned the ire of much of his subordinate officer corps. In the summer of 1862, Evans moved his South Carolina Brigade north to fight with Robert E. Lee's army at Second Manassas and Sharpsburg, where his unit lost hundreds of men in heavy fighting.

Within weeks, Evans was back in the Carolinas fighting an invading enemy that outnumbered him 5-to-1. In the spring of 1863, Evans's South Carolinians were riding the rails west to help raise the siege of Vicksburg."--BOOK JACKET.