. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . squadron that he was dead. June 30, 1864, PaymasterCook was commissioned assistant paymaster in the regu-lar navy (for merit); and April 3, 1865, he was appointedfleet paymaster of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron,relieving the senior paymaster in the navy, Mr. EdwardT. Dunn. Paymaster Cook resigned June 2^, 1S66, and receivedacceptance of same on July 9, 1866. 190 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL ELLIOTT W. RICE, (deceased). Brevet Major-General Elliott W. Rice was bornin Alleghany
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . squadron that he was dead. June 30, 1864, PaymasterCook was commissioned assistant paymaster in the regu-lar navy (for merit); and April 3, 1865, he was appointedfleet paymaster of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron,relieving the senior paymaster in the navy, Mr. EdwardT. Dunn. Paymaster Cook resigned June 2^, 1S66, and receivedacceptance of same on July 9, 1866. 190 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL ELLIOTT W. RICE, (deceased). Brevet Major-General Elliott W. Rice was bornin Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, November 16, year following his parents removed to Martinsville,Belmont County, Ohio. lie was educated at the oldLancaster Academy, Wheeling, West Virginia, and atFranklin College, Ohio. In 1855 he went to Iowa andstudied law with his brother. General Samuel A. Rice,and in 1858 graduated at the law school of the Univer-sity of Albany, New York, and was admitted to the barof the Supreme Court of that State. He then returnedto Oskaloosa, Iowa, and practised his profession as partnerof his brother. When the war commenced he was mustered into ser-vice in Inly, 1861, as a private in the Seventh Iowa In-fantry, lie was soon promoted sergeant, and after theregiment had entered the held, Governor Kirkwood sentRice his commission as major of the regiment .August 1,[861. On the 7th of November following the SeventhIowa went into Grants first battle, that
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