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During the Civil War Price served as a captain in the Missouri State Guard under General Sterling Price. [10] [11] His father John G. Price was a southern unionist, who remained loyal to the Union "By staying home and funding government troops (Union Soldiers)" according to his oath of loyalty to the Union he signed on October 6, 1866 at the ...
Price married Martha A. Matilda Martin (1837–1907), daughter of William Martin, a Confederate soldier. He had ten children. Four died in infancy. The oldest surviving child, Caroline Price (1860–1936), was a concert musician before marriage to Walter S. Wilson and children ended her career.
Sterling Price (September 14, 1809 – September 29, 1867) was an American politician and military officer who was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, fighting in both the Western and Trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War.
Price's Missouri Expedition (August 29 – December 2, 1864), also known as Price's Raid or Price's Missouri Raid, was an unsuccessful Confederate cavalry raid through Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.
William Price Craighill (July 1, 1833 – January 18, 1909) was born in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), son of William Nathaniel Craighill & Sarah Elizabeth Brown. He was an author, Union Army officer in the American Civil War , and later served as Chief of Engineers .
Ethan S. Rafuse, reviewing for Civil War Book Review stated that Price's Lost Campaign was one of the first major works written about Price's Raid since a 1964 work of limited scope titled Action Before Westport, 1864, [7] although Patrick E. McLear, in a review for Civil War History mentioned that at least five books had been written on the ...
Other items that will be auctioned off include Sherman's uniform’s rank insignia worn during the Civil War, a family. ... phrase “War is hell.” General William Tecumseh Sherman’s wartime ...
William Sanders was born near Frankfort, Kentucky to wealthy attorney Lewis Sanders (Saunders), Jr., and his wife Margaret Hubbel (Price). Through his mother he was a descendent of John Gano, a Revolutionary War patriot. [1] His family moved circa 1839 to Natchez, Mississippi, where he was raised.