General sterling price family tree
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PRICE, Sterling
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Montgomery, AL
Papers:In the Confederate Officers Photograph Album, n.d., 0.33 cubic foot.Subjects include Sterling Price.
Battle of Lexington State Historic Site
Lexington, MO
Papers:In the John Wallace Collection, 1851-1968, 15 items.The papers contain an official report by Gen. Sterling Price of the Battle of Lexington, Missouri.
Duke University
Manuscripts, Special Collections Library
Durham, NC
Papers:1856, 2 items.The collection consists of two certificates of appointment for C.S. Yancey to the circuit court of Missouri signed by Sterling Price as governor.
The Morgan Library
Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts
New York, NY
Papers:1853, 1 item.A letter from Sterling Price written to President Pierce on November 27, 1853. The letter is also signed by sixteen officials of the Missouri state government and members of Congress. The letter recommends W. Claude Jones as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Nebraska Territory.
Yale University
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Li •
Sterling Price
Sterling Price (September 20, 1809 – September 29, 1867) was a soldier, lawyer, planter, and politician from the U.S.state of Missouri. He served as a United States Armybrigadier general during the Mexican-American War. He was governor of Missouri from 1853 to 1857. During the American Civil War Price was a Major general serving with the Confederate States Army. He is best known for his victories in New Mexico and Chihuahua during the Mexican conflict, and for his defeats at the Battles of Pea Ridge and Westport during the Civil War. Following the war, Price took his remaining troops to Mexico rather than surrender. He tried unsuccessfully to seek service with EmperorMaximilian. He finally returned to Missouri, where he died in poverty and was buried in St. Louis.
Early life and career
[change | change source]Price was born near Farmville, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. His family was of Welsh origin. Price attended Hampden-Sydney College in 1826 and 1827, studying law and working at the courthouse near his home. He was admitted to the Virginia bar and
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Sterling Price
The first endeavor of Sterling Price into public service was in Missouri, where he served first in the Missouri House of Representatives and then the United States Congress, up until the outbreak of the Mexican-American War. Once the war started, Price resigned from Congress, was appointed colonel of the Second Missouri, and became the military governor of New Mexico. While he was military governor, Price put down a rebellion of Native Americans and Mexicans, known as the Taos Revolt, and fought the last battle of the Mexican-American War, the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales, after the war had technically ended. He returned to Missouri after the war, and was elected governor of the state from 1853 to 1857. In March of 1861, Price was president of the Missouri convention that opposed secession, but as a result of disagreements he had with Unionists, Price accepted command of the Missouri Militia to fight for the Confederacy.
He commanded the Missouri Militia at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, where he helped to defeat Union General Nathaniel L
Sterling Price
Sterling Price (September 20, 1809 – September 29, 1867) was a soldier, lawyer, planter, and politician from the U.S.state of Missouri. He served as a United States Armybrigadier general during the Mexican-American War. He was governor of Missouri from 1853 to 1857. During the American Civil War Price was a Major general serving with the Confederate States Army. He is best known for his victories in New Mexico and Chihuahua during the Mexican conflict, and for his defeats at the Battles of Pea Ridge and Westport during the Civil War. Following the war, Price took his remaining troops to Mexico rather than surrender. He tried unsuccessfully to seek service with EmperorMaximilian. He finally returned to Missouri, where he died in poverty and was buried in St. Louis.
Early life and career
[change | change source]Price was born near Farmville, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. His family was of Welsh origin. Price attended Hampden-Sydney College in 1826 and 1827, studying law and working at the courthouse near his home. He was admitted to the Virginia bar and
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Sterling Price
The first endeavor of Sterling Price into public service was in Missouri, where he served first in the Missouri House of Representatives and then the United States Congress, up until the outbreak of the Mexican-American War. Once the war started, Price resigned from Congress, was appointed colonel of the Second Missouri, and became the military governor of New Mexico. While he was military governor, Price put down a rebellion of Native Americans and Mexicans, known as the Taos Revolt, and fought the last battle of the Mexican-American War, the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales, after the war had technically ended. He returned to Missouri after the war, and was elected governor of the state from 1853 to 1857. In March of 1861, Price was president of the Missouri convention that opposed secession, but as a result of disagreements he had with Unionists, Price accepted command of the Missouri Militia to fight for the Confederacy.
He commanded the Missouri Militia at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, where he helped to defeat Union General Nathaniel L
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