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Creator/Title
Rice, Elliott Warren, 1837-1887. Papers, 1861-1887. 1 box. 19 Mss. and 24 other items.
Call No.
Mss. A R495 1-12
Content
General in U.S. Army. Military commissions by Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood of Iowa, Presidents Lincoln and Johnson. Correspondence includes one letter to sister, Angeline A. Rice, and letters from J. C. Fremont, Brig.-Gen. George Crook and Albert W. Swalm. Obituary notices and letters of sympathy to niece, Mrs. Annette Rice Cochran, from William W. Belknap and Ettie Van Hook. Portrait of General Rice in uniform of U.S. Army, nine photographs connected with his service in the Civil War, badges of reunions of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and the G.A.R., and a star from a flag made by women friends in Iowa. Accompanied by "Personal Recollections of General Elliott W. Rice" by Gertrude Cochran Crane.