Statistics for occurrence #1 of “General Evans” in entry ball-s-bluff-battle-at of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...f the 21st, ordered some Massachusetts troops under Colonels Lee and Devens to cross to the Virginia shore from Harrison's Island to reconnoitre.
They did not find the fore in the neighborhood.
General Evans , unperceived, lay not far off; and riflemen and cavalry were hovering near and waiting a favorable opportunity to strike Devens, who, leaving a part of Lee's command near the Bluff.
had advanced to...
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