. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . y, 1884. lie has served in the following-named United Statesvessels-of-war: Savannah, Susquehanna, Nipsic, Pensacola, Independence, Cyane, Resaca,Powhatan, Kansas, Ossipee, Sabine, Maho-pac, Jamestown, and Dale. During the time he was attached to the Ossipee, thesteamer Virginius, while being towed and manned bya crew from the Ossipee, foundered off Frying-PanShoals. When it was discovered that she was sinking,he immediately called for a volunteer crew for the shipscutter, and went to the rescue of his shipmates. Herescued
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . y, 1884. lie has served in the following-named United Statesvessels-of-war: Savannah, Susquehanna, Nipsic, Pensacola, Independence, Cyane, Resaca,Powhatan, Kansas, Ossipee, Sabine, Maho-pac, Jamestown, and Dale. During the time he was attached to the Ossipee, thesteamer Virginius, while being towed and manned bya crew from the Ossipee, foundered off Frying-PanShoals. When it was discovered that she was sinking,he immediately called for a volunteer crew for the shipscutter, and went to the rescue of his shipmates. Herescued forty-five officers and men ; the execution of thisnecessitated him to make five trips, because of the heavygale and rough sea it was unsafe to bring off more thannine persons at any one trip of the cutter. He has served as a member of two Nicaraguan sur-veying expeditions; also in charge of the Bellevue mag-azine, and had instruction at the Torpedo Station. Heis now United States light-house inspector, ThirteenthDistrict. 34Q OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (regular). CAPTAIN AND BREVET LIEUTENANT-COLONELEDMUND RICE, Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel EdmundRice (Fifth Infantry) was born in Cambridge, Massachu-setts, December 2, 1842. He is descended from EdmundRice (born 1594), of Berkhamstead, County of Hertford-shire, England, who came to this country and settled inSudbury, Massachusetts, in 1639. Several of his de-scendants were engaged in Indian and French colonialwars, and during the Revolution many of their childrenfought at Lexington, Concord, Bunker Hill, Bennington,Crown Point, and in other battles of the war. Two ofhis ancestors, Major Nathan Rice, of Sturbridge, Massa-chusetts, and Lieutenant Oliver Rice, of Sudbury, Mas-sachusetts, were original members of the MassachusettsSociety of Cincinnati. His grandfather, Edmund Rice,was an officer of the war of 1 Si2. The subject of thissketch was educated at Norwich University, Vermont,which conferred on him the
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