. History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, formerly the Second Virginia Infantry, and of Battery G, First West Va. Light Artillery . he remo\ ed to is at present living in Dallas, in that state. SERGEANT H. A. EVANS. Henry A. Evans was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., June ^i^o. 1838. Hisfather was born in Huntington and his mother in Alleghen)- county. grandfather P2vans, one of the pioneers of the west, built a rollingmill at Connellsville, Pa., very early in the history of that part of thecountry. His grandfather Henry Pnirns, was the first white child bornwest of the Allegheny
. History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, formerly the Second Virginia Infantry, and of Battery G, First West Va. Light Artillery . he remo\ ed to is at present living in Dallas, in that state. SERGEANT H. A. EVANS. Henry A. Evans was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., June ^i^o. 1838. Hisfather was born in Huntington and his mother in Alleghen)- county. grandfather P2vans, one of the pioneers of the west, built a rollingmill at Connellsville, Pa., very early in the history of that part of thecountry. His grandfather Henry Pnirns, was the first white child bornwest of the Allegheny mountains, whose parents were killed b) theIndians when he was an infant, and he was found in the woods by a , who reared him as his son. Mr. Evans received his education inthe public and private schools of Pittsburgh. He chose the i)rofessionof medicine, but after studying for a year or more, his health failed andhe was obliged to give it up, when he entered a rolling mill and learnedto be a heater. He was thus emi)loyed when the call to arms came. Incompany with a few others he was soon recruiting, and after hel])ing to. S. J. OSBORNE.
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