1. State your full name and present post office address:
Answer: George A. Rice, Chic Dyer Co. Tenn.

2. State your age now:
Answer: 79

3. In what State and county were you born?
Answer: Decatur Co. Tenn.

4. Were you a Confederate or Federal soldier?
Answer: Confederate

5. Name of your Company?
Answer: I; 9th Tenn. Dibrell Brigade

6. What was the occupation of your father?
Answer: Tanner

7. Give full name of your father: Isaac C. Rice; born at Kingston; in the County of Roan Co.; State of Tenn; He lived at Roan up to 1815 and came Decater Co. and to Obine (Obion) county 1869.
Give also any particulars concerning him, as official position, war services, etc.; books written by him, etc.:
Answer: __________________

8. Maiden name in full of your mother: Jane Cordial; she was the daughter of: (full name) Apt Cordial and his wife: (full name) Dont know first name ----- Hainey?; who lived at: Decaiterville Tenn came from North Carolina.

9. Remarks on ancestry. Give here any and all facts possible in reference to your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc., not included in the foregoing as where they lived, offices held, Revolutionary or other war service; what country they came from to America; first settled-county and State; always giving full names (if possible), and never referring to an ancestor simply as such without giving the name. It is desirable to include every fact possible, and to that end the full and exact record from old Bibles should be appended on separate sheets of this size, thus preserving the facts from loss.
Answer: my great grandfather Rice was in Revolutionary war

10. If you owned land or other property at the opening of the war, state what kind of property you owned, and state the value of your property as near as you can:
Answer: __________________

11. Did you or your parents own slaves? If so, how many?
Answer: yes 9 - 6 women and 3 men

12. If your parents owned land, state about how many acres:
Answer: 365

13. State as near as you can the value of all the property owned by your parents, including land, when the war opened:
Answer: Seven thousand dollars

14. What kind of house did your parents occupy? State whether it was a log house or frame house or built of other material, and state the number of rooms it had:
Answer: hewed log 3 rooms and 2 halls and 2 story hight hewed out yellow poplar trees

15. As a boy and young man, state what kind of work you did. If you worked on a farm, state to what extent you plowed, worked with a hoe and did other kinds of similar work. (Certain historians claim that white men would not do work of this sort before the war.)
Answer: Plowed oxens and horses, also hoed, and during summer months hauled barral staves 16 miles with 4 yoke cattle on Linch _____ wagon 4 trips a week

16. State clearly what kind of work your father did, and what the duties of your mother were. State all the kinds of work done in the house as well as you can remember - that is, cooking, spinning, weaving, etc.:
Answer: Father taught school and worked on farm, seeing after us boys and nigars slaves. Mother cooked on fire place used pot racks, scilits kettle etc and spone and weaved cloth to make all of everday clothing also cut and made our cloths

17. Did your parents keep any servants? If so, how many?
Answer: Part of time through sickness

18. How was honest toil - as plowing, hauling, and other sorts of honest work of this class - regarded in your community? Was such work considered respectable and honorable?
Answer: yes we all worked as hard as our slaves and give the same to eat we got

19. Did the white men in your community generally engage in such work?
Answer: yes

20. To what extent were there white men in your community leading lives of idleness and having others do their work for them?
Answer: most all men worked in Decatur co.

21. Did the men who owned slaves mingle freely with those who did not own slaves, or did slaveholders in any way show by their actions that they felt themselves better than respectable, honorable men who did now own slaves?
Answer: not in Decaiter all entergetic people was respected

22. At the churches, at the school, at public gatherings in general, did slaveholders and non-slaveholders mingle on a footing of equality?
Answer: yes

23. Was there a friendly feeling between slaveholders and non-slaveholders in your community, or were they antagonistic to each other?
Answer: yes

24. In a political contest, in which one candidate owned slaves and the other did not, did the fact that one candidate owned slaves help him any in winning the contest?
Answer: none what ever

25. Were the opportunities good in your community for a poor young man, honest and industrious, to save up enough to buy a small farm or go in business for himself?
Answer: yes

26. Were poor, honest, industrious young men, who were ambitious to make something of themselves, encouraged or discouraged by slaveholders?
Answer: encouraged

27. What kind of school or schools did you attend?
Answer: Primary by subscription

28. About how long did you go to school altogether?
Answer: 3 months ever year amount about 12 years as that is 3 on a year for 12 years

29. How far was it to the nearest school?
Answer: 1 1/2 mile first pupil to school house would be first to recite lesson

30. What school or schools were in operation in your neighborhood?
Answer: comon subscriptions

31. Was the school in your community private or public?
Answer: Private

32. About how many months in the year did it run?
Answer: 4 months

33. Did the boys and girls in your community attend school pretty regularly?
Answer: yes

34. Was the teacher of the school you attended a man or woman?
Answer: Man

35. In what year and month and at what place did you enlist in the service of the Confederacy or of the Federal Government?
Answer: 1862, in Decaiterville, Tenn.

36. After enlistment, where was your Company sent first?
Answer: Trenton, Tenn.

37. How long after enlistment before your Company engaged in battle?
Answer: 2 weeks

38. What was the first battle you engaged in?
Answer: Jackson, Tenn.

39. State in your own way your experience in the War from this time on to its close. State where you went after the first battle - what you did and what other battles you engaged in, how long they lasted, what the results were; state how you lived in camp, how you were clothed, how you slept, what you had to eat, how you were exposed to cold, hunger and disease. If you were in the hospital or prison, state your experience there:
Answer: went to Bain Bridge on scouting expedition thence a chase after old Gen Straight across sand mt. too Rone Ga. and captured him and came back down through Midle Tenn. to Ala. thence back to Tenn. to Chickmaugy fight thence to Knoxville Tenn and seiged Burnsides and scouted E. Tenn. bal. of winter 1863. next fight at Kingston.

40. When and where were you discharged?
Answer: Gainville, Ala. 1865 May the 8th

41. Tell something of your trip home:
Answer: come home horse back got plenty to eat on and horse feed and had no troubl home

42. Give a sketch of your life since the close of the Civil War, stating what kind of business you have engaged in, where you have lived, your church relations, etc. If you have held any office or offices, state what it was. You may state here any other facts connected with your life and experience which has not been brought out by the questions:
Answer: Farming

43. What kind of work did you take up when you came back home?
Answer: left Decaiter Co. in fall of 65 come Haywood co. the part I come to is now Crockett co. worked on farm and married Nov. 24th 1867 to Elizey Copher. Bought a little farm sold it and come to Dyer Co. 1885 Raised 7 children 2 only live my olest son whom I live with and also my olest daugher lives yet. I am blind have been blind 2 years but my health is good but worry a lot. my son and granddaughters are very attenive to me yet they are poor people. I am glad Tenn. pays her old solders a pention I get $20.00 per month I am very thankful for as I have no way make a liveing I have always voted a Democratic ticket always will. never in law suit never in court always had good neighbors plenty of friends no enmies.

44. On a separate sheet, give the names of some of the great men who you have known or met in your time, and tell some of the circumstances of the meeting or incidents in their lives. Also add any further personal reminiscences. (Use all the space you want.)
Answer: ____________________

45. Give the names of all the members of your Company you can remember. (If you know where the Roster is to be had, please make special note of this.)
Answer: Capt. Self, Sec. Capt. Smith, Third Culp, Lui. Ewimm (Ewin?), Lt. Burkett, Lt. Bur----, Serg. Tom Stalings, Sgt. John Rice, Sgt. John Rust, Cpl. Jim Dawson, Cpl. Dan _adwell, Privates: John Spence, ____ Onesby, Andy Blackburn, Jim Blackburn, Wm. Rains, Port Rains, Lesly Mathes, John Rienhart, Tom Turnbow, Will Drenon, Dick Evans, Bill Evans, Andy Evans, Bud Evans, Jim Evans, Neil Evans, Jef Evans, Isaac Holder, Same. Tombs, Roane Roberson, Bud Roberson, Will Briwley, Hob Culk, Will Crossnow, Joe Crossnow, Sam Crossnow, George Welch, Haywood Mildton, George Thompson, John Butts, Wil Kelly, Ed Kyle, Jim Kyle, Dock Kyle, John Wilberton, Lum Taylor, Bob Taylor, Marrow Sewley, George Howell, Will Howell, George Bright, Jim Griam, Elex Smith, John Thorne, Jim Stallings, Frank Stallings, Bose Rodgers, Tom Morton, Pate Perry.

46. Give the NAME and POST OFFICE ADDRESS of any living Veterans of the Civil War, whether members of your Company or not; whether Tennesseans or from other States.
Answer: Joe Herman, Dyersburg, Tenn; ____ Stutts, Jackson, Tenn.