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The undersigned would most respectfully call the attention of General Howard to the case of Dr. N.P. Rice, in the hope that by doing we can render an important service to him and at the same time benefit the cause in which we are interested.
He is a graduate of Harvard University and at the very outset of the war, relinquished his practice and entered the service as Surgeon of Volunteers - remaining in the army until the close of the war. In 1864 either from an injury or from general exhaustion, he experienced an attack of paralysis, which for several months confined him to a Hospital. From this he has mainly recovered, but the effects still continue, sufficient to preclude him from practicing his profession.
Immediately after the close of the war, he removed to the town of Albany in Southwestern Georgia and in connection with a resident there, engaged in Cotton planting.
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