Charles Henry Rice

In August 1860 he was a 30 year old widower and farmer with a 3 month old child at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Eastville, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as First Corporal of Company E of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 4th Sergeant on 1 September 1862.

He was in action with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and again, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was captured at Falling Waters, MD on 14 July on the return march, treated at the DeCamp General Hospital in New York Harbor, paroled there, and was at Camp Lee, the parole camp in Richmond, VA, by the end of August 1863. He was captured again, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 30 July, when he was transferred to Elmira, NY. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there and was released on 30 June 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Polk County, GA. By 1900 he was a farmer with his daughter Martha in Grimes County, TX and by 1910 had retired to Jones County and lived with his son John and family. He applied for a Texas Confederate pension in November 1915.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, and his Texas Confederate pension application of November 1915. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Jackson Lawler (1835-1860) in 1859 and they had a daughter Sarah (1860-1947); mother Sarah died in childbirth. He married again, the widow Elisa G. Jackson Wheeler (1837-1886) in September 1868 and they had 6 more children (she brought 4 others from her earlier marriage).

11/04/1829; Coweta County, GA

01/12/1920; Jones County, TX; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, Anson, TX