Amos R. Rice

A 42 year old farm worker in Guadalupe County, he enlisted in Austin as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 12 March 1862 and he was slightly wounded in the hand at Gaines Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

He was not with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but was in action with them at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was in hospitals sick or on detached duty as a nurse for most of the rest of the war, but ...

Bill Calhoun said that in the stampede in Raccoon Valley one night in October, 1863, the old man [Rice] was one of the first to pull out when the order came to fall back. In attempting to cross the ditch he fell on his hands and knees, and the whole retreating regiment made a pontoon bridge out of him.

He married in Travis County, TX, wife #3, in 1866 and was in Montague County at his 4th wedding, in 1877. He was farming there in 1880.

I met him [Rice] some years after the war, and he told me he had found a gold mine in the mountains of Coryell County, Tex.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, as A.R. Rice. The quotes above are from Val C. Giles in the Confederate Veteran3 magazine. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Jane Brandon in Iredell, NC in December 1840; Lucinda Haden (1815-1855) in November 1849 in Rowan, NC, and they had a son Pleasant Henderson Rice (1850-1937); the widow Anne Elizabeth Glascock Elliott (1838-1900) in Travis County, TX in July 1866 and they had 3 children. Her brother Thomas A Glascock was also at Sharpsburg in Company B with Amos; lastly, Salina C. Stotts (1844-1885) in August 1877 in Montague County - they had 3 more.

c. 1820; Rowan County, NC

1886; Montague, TX