National Archives: Discover the Civil War

Posted in Memory by Andy Hall on November 3, 2010

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Dick Stanley said, on November 3, 2010 at 7:03 pm

Be nice to know more about that USCT soldier writing the slaveholder, such as who was he writing and where?

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- Andy Hall said, on November 3, 2010 at 7:15 pm
  
  Dick, thanks for commenting. The letter is from Spotswood Rice (c. 1825 -1885), a member of the 67th USCT in Missouri, writing to Kitty Diggs.
  
  I followed up with some digging on Rice’s later life in this comment to that thread. Don’t know much about Rice’s service record. He enlisted late in the war and (as I recall) this letter was written from a military hospital where he was ill for an extended period. His service record had not been digitized last time I checked.
  
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