Rice, Marcus Miner
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 21, credited to Northfield, VT Unit(s): 1st VT CAV Service: enl 9/23/61, m/i 11/19/61, Pvt, Co. C, 1st VT CAV, pow, Broad Run, 4/1/63, prld 4/7/63, wdd, Hagerstown, 7/6/63, pow, Ashland, 6/1/64, Andersonville, prld 12/10/64, m/o 2/22/65 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 08/21/1840, Northfield, VT Death: 12/30/1920 Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, St. Albans, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Kathy Valloch Findagrave Memorial #: 147501890 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 9/3/1866 Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Homer Ruggles, Marcus Rice
St. Albans Daily Messenger
ST. ALBANS, VT. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1900
OLD COMRADES MEET.
Served together in first Vermont cavalry in Civil War.
Homer Ruggles, of Pittston, Pa., is the guest of Marcus M. Rice, of Brown ave., a comrade in the Civil War. They served together three years as members of the same company in the first Vermont cavalry, and many a time have slept under the same blanket and drank from the same canteen.
The present visit of Mr. Ruggles with Mr. Rice is their first meeting since they were mustered out of the United States service, 35 years ago.
Mr. Ruggles still carries a bullet in his body as a souvenir of a personal encounter with the Confederate guerrilla leader, John S.
Mostly, himself, upon the occasion of the Vermont boys capturing a cannon from Mosby near the little town of Greenwich, Va.
Contributed by Bob Hackett.
