John T. Rice, a member of Company E, Eleventh Iowa, was
buried this afternoon with military honors.2 He died of
his wound accompanied with fever. Three other men who died of disease were also
buried today. We learned that Wilson Simmons of Company E died of lung fever on
the 15th at Mound City, Illinois.
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2 Rice was buried in the Shiloh
National Cemetery, Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, his grave being 175, Section
9. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 45.
EDITOR’S NOTE:
According to the Shiloh
Monument Location System, John P. Rice (middle initial also verified using
the Civil War Soldiers
and Sailors System) is buried in Section G, grave # 2061, Shiloh National
Cemetery. Both his pension
index card (located via Fold3.com) and
the Roster and Record of Iowa soldiers in
the War of the Rebellion, Vol.
2, p. 376 list his middle initial as “T.”
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