James Thompson Rice

A 33 year old farmer in Anderson Court House, he enlisted as Private, Company I, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 9 August 1862.

He was wounded in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862 and captured nearby.

He was paroled on 22 September 1862 near Sandy Hook, MD but died of his wound on 5 October 1862 at the US Army hospital in Pleasant Valley, MD.

He may have been reinterred with other Confederate dead to the Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD, but his name is not among those identified as such.

His service from Swain.1

12/10/1828

10/05/1862; Pleasant Valley, MD