Ka kammala wannan magana: Bayan ya sauke karatu daga Kwalejin Washington, ya zama malami a Louisiana har sai da yakin basasar Amurka ya barke. Evans ya koma Virginia, kodayake garinsa ya zama wani ɓangare na sabuwar jihar West Virginia (wanda aka shigar da shi cikin Union), ya shiga cikin Rundunar Sojojin Virginia na 1 na Sojojin Tarayya. Ya yi yaƙi a lokacin yakin, ya zama Kyaftin bayan yakin Bakwai Bakwai a 1862, kuma bayan yakin a cikin
Valley na Virginia, ya zama Colonel na 20th Virginia Cavalry. Kusan ƙarshen yaƙin, an kama shi kuma ya shafe tsawon lokaci a kurkuku na Tarayya. Baya ga aikinsa na soja, an zabe shi sau biyu zuwa majalisar dokokin Virginia a lokacin yakin.