Henry Rice letters, 1862.

Rice, Amory, 1813-1904.

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Rice family.

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United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 103rd (1862-1865)

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Rice, Martha Conant Dewey, 1818-1901.

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Owen, E. H.

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Rice, Henry, 1843-1863.

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Henry Rice was a Civil War soldier in Company H of the 103rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. At age 19, Henry Rice left his home in Lewistown Illinois, a farm on which he lived with his father Amory, his mother, Martha, and a brother, Oliver, to enlist as a private on August 12, 1862. After waiting eagerly for a month at Camp Peoria, Illinois, he was finally mustered in on October 2, 1862. Letters do not chronicle the rest of his experiences, but he served until February, 18...