James Clay Rice

                                                 OBITUARY
                                          BRIG-GEN. JAMES C. RICE.
                                  Amongst the dead who fell in Tuesday's battle
                                            in Virginia was Gen. James C. Rice, of this city, one
                                            of the bravest, truest, noblest spirits this country
                                            has seen--a man as simple in his ways, so entirely
                                            devoted to his country, so fearless and determined in
                                            battle, so true and and genuine a man and so thoroughly
                                            a soldier, that, without family or political influence, 
                                            and without personal effort, his own merits raised
                                            him from the position of private in the Thirty-
                                            ninth New-York Regiment to that of one of the
                                            most trusted and respected Brigadiers in the 
                                            Army of the Potomac. he fought in every battle
                                            in which that army was engaged, except that
                                            of Antietam; he bore the brunt of many terrible con-
                                            flicts; on many occasions received through his 
                                            clothing, but was never touched in his person til,
                                            in the charge which he lead on Tuesday, he was shot
                                            in the thigh. He died shortly after amputation had
                                            been performed--his last words the request, "Turn
                                            me over that I may die with my face to the enemy."
                                            In him the country has lost not only a true and brave
                                            soldier, but a devoted citizen--a man who under-
                                            stood the full meaning of liberty--who was a demo-
                                            crat in the best and truest sense of the word.
                                              Gen. Rice was a native of Worthington, Mass.--
                                            one of a large family of children whos mother, at
                                            the age of eighty-two, still lives to mourn her son.
                                            He passed his early life in a struggle to gain an edu-
                                            cation, finally entered Yale and graduated with the
                                            highest honors; shortly afterward he went to
                                            Natchez, Miss., where he taught school, edited the
                                            literary department of a paper, and learned to hate
                                            Slavery with a deep hatred. Returning North, 
                                            after several years of Southern life, he began the
                                            practice of law in this city, and worked his way
                                            up to a fine practice and proud position in the junior
                                            bar.