Person:Rice Hulsey (1)

1850 United States Federal Census 1850 United States Federal Census Name: R R Hulsey Age: 11 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1839 Birth Place: Georgia Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): District 38, Hall, Georgia Household Members: Name Age B Hulsey <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=18714134> 6 Burd Hulsey <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=18714126> 48 E Hulsey <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=18714135> 3 H Hulsey <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=18714129> 15 J Hulsey <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=18714131> 12 J Hulsey <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=18714133> 8 J P Hulsey <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=18714136> 0 L Hulsey <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=18714132> 10 L Hulsey <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=18714127> 35 N Hulsey <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=18714130> 13 R R Hulsey <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=try&h=18714128> 11

Rice Ross Hulsey is the son of Burrell Hulsey and Lauriette Bates. He was born in 1833 in Hall County, Georgia. He is the second child of thirteen. He enlisted as a Private in Company E, Phillip's Legion Georgia. Rice Ross Hulsey married Mary Hamilton on January 27, 1854 in Hall County, Georgia. They had three children prior to the War, John Hulsey, Indianah Hulsey, and Laura Hulsey. The Phillip's Legion's Infantry Battalion formed the infantry component of this Georgia unit. As originally organized in 1861 the Legion contained six infantry companies (A -F)and four Cavalry companies. During the spring of 1862, three new infantry companies, L,M and O, were recruited in Cobb and Bartow counties and added to the infantry Battalion. These nine companies, retaining their original company designations, served throughout the remainder of the war. Like almost all Civil War Legions, the infantry and cavalry battalions of the unit were separated not long after the unit was accepted into active service. As was the case with almost all Civil War units the Infantry Legion was frequently know by an alternate designation derived from the name of its commanding officer. Names of this type used by or for the unit are :William Phillip's InfantrySeaborn Jones, Jr.'s InfantryJoseph Hamilton's InfantryRobert T. Cook's InfantryE. Sandy Barclay's InfantryJohn S.Norris' Infantry. Shortly after being mustered into Confederate service the unit was ordered to the mountains of western Virginia (today's West Virginia) to serve in the Army of the Kanawha under General Floyd. The unit endured brutal winter weather and disease until December 16, 1861 when it was ordered to South Carolina. The unit, now expanded with the addition of companies L, M & O, next served in the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. In July of 1862 the Battalion returned to Virginia as part of Thomas Drayton's mixed Georgia, South Carolina brigade, joining the Army of Northern Virginia. It was reassigned to General T R R Cobb's Georgia brigade in November of 1862 and continued to serve with the ANV until the late summer of 1863 when it was moved west to Georgia along with two divisions of Longstreet's Corps, serving in the Army of Tennessee at Chattanooga and later in the Department of East Tennessee during the Knoxville campaign. Returned to Virginia in April of 1864, the unit again served in the Army of Northern Virginia. In August of 1864, the unit joined the Army of the Valley District where it served in the Shenandoah Valley until November, 1864. Once again returned to the Army of Northern Virginia, the Battalion served in that Army for the duration of the war.