Civil War Records of Francis Rice

Service

Co. Regiment/Ship From To Residence Occupation Notes
A 15th MVI Private; enl. and must. August 14, 1862 must. out July 28, 1864 enl. at Charlton farmer

age 22;

wounded July 2-3, 1863 at Gettysburg, Penn. (?, see Brown, p. 270)

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): x
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): x

Pension

Co. Regiment Date Filed Type App. No. Cert. No. State Beneficiary/Remarks
A 15th MVI January 31, 1890 Invalid 752 280 607 296 Mass.  
April 21, 1900 Widow 717 616   Mass. Eliza A. Rice

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  6 pages (PDF*)

Grand Army of the Republic

Isaac Davis Post No. 138, Acton, Massachusetts (source:  Sargent, Grand Army of the Republic, p. 426.)


Death

Date March 28, 1900
Place Stow, Mass.
Age 60
Cause typhoid pneumonia
Obituary Maynard News, April 6, 1900
Funeral  
Burial Brookside Cemetery, Stow, Mass.
Survived by widow, Eliza A. Rice

Additional Information

Peggy Jo Brown. Hometown Soldiers: Civil War Veterans of Assabet Village & Maynard Massachusetts. Maynard, Mass.: Flying Heron Press, 2005.  228, 269-273.

"Francis A. "Frank" Rice." In Roster and Genealogies of the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Compiled by Susan Harnwell (web site): http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/ma15mvi-p/p36.htm#i149

 

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