Rice Evan Graves Jr. (June 23, 1838 – September 20, 1863) was an artillery officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

His parents, wealthy planter Rice E. Graves Sr. and his wife Amelia Rucker Gregory (widowed daughter of American Revolutionary War Patriot Cpt.

Rice E. Graves was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York through a scholarship presented by Congressman Samuel O. Peyton representing the second Congressional district of Kentucky.

[5] In November 1861 he was promoted to captain and appointed to command Graves' Battery, an artillery unit attached to the regiment.

[12] He was taken to the hospital, about one-half acre of open ground, and then moved to a house near Reed's Creek with other severely wounded men.

Todd, Commander of the Rice E. Graves United Confederate Veterans Camp #1121 said that he "could recall no other soldier that he met during the war who so impressed him and so rapidly won his confidence and friendship."