Rice successfully campaigned for her father and nine other African-American men, one freedman and eight enslaved, to be recognized for their Civil War service with a historical marker in Monroe, North Carolina.
[2] He was a former slave who had served in the 12th South Carolina Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
[1] According to his military pension record, Clyburn fought in the Battle of Port Royal at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, carrying his slavemaster out of the field on his shoulder and later he performed personal service for General Robert E.
[6] Rice successfully campaigned for her father and nine other African-American men (one freedman and eight enslaved) to be recognized for their Civil War service with a state historical marker in Monroe, North Carolina.
[1] When Rice found her father's Confederate military pension application from 1926, in the State Archives of North Carolina, she began receiving calls from various Civil War groups.