Obituary for John C. Rye, Sebastian, Arkansas

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Obituary from CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XVIII, No. 10, August 1910

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Obituary:  JOHN C. RYE

The death of John C. Rye, at Fort Smith, Ark., on December 19, 1907, marked 
the passing of one who had been unfaltering in his devotion to the Southern 
cause and who was most active in the four years of strife.  In January,1861, 
he enlisted with Company A, 1st Battalion Arkansas Cavalry, organized and 
commanded by Capt. John R. H. Scott, in which he served as second sergeant 
the first year of the war.  In the spring of 1862, when the army 
was reorganized, he became a private soldier, and later on was made a 
member of the band with which he reamined until the siege of Vicksburg.  
After passing through that, terrible siege from April 17 to July 4, 
he was paroled with the army that surrendered at that place.  He and a 
few companions then crossed the Mississippi River and returned to their 
homes, in Pope County, until exchanged.  The first battle in which 
he participated after that was at Prairie DeHand, Ark., and the last 
at Dardanelle, and the surrender at Hempstead, Ark.

Of this family, two brothers had been killed in the war.  Capt. Dave Rye 
was killed in a skirmish in Arkansas in the latter part of the war, 
and Jimmy Rye was wounded in the siege of Vicksburg, and died from the
effects of amputation of leg.

In December, 1869, Comrade Rye was married to Miss Nannie Dunbar, of Graves
County, Ky.  Because of her activity in giving aid and information to the 
Confederate forces, Miss Dunbar was banished from her home in 1864, 
and remained away until the final surrender.  She is left with a daughter 
and son to cheer her declining years.

As evidence of his strict regard for his word, however lightly given, 
the picture shows comrade Rye with long hair, it having been left unshorn 
during the four years of war--a wager between him and his colonel.  
Appreciating the situation, his sisters curled his hair and persuaded him 
to have his picture taken, as here given.

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