 sterling price (september 20, 1809september 29, 1867) was a lawyer, planter, and politician from the u.s. state of missouri, who served as the 11th governor of the state from 1853 to 1857. he also served as a united states army brigadier general during the mexican-american war, and a confederate army major general in the american civil war. price is best known for his victories in new mexico and chihuahua during the mexican conflict, and for his losses at the battles of pea ridge and westport during the civil warâthe latter being the culmination of his ill-fated missouri campaign of 1864. following the war, price took his remaining troops to mexico rather than surrender, unsuccessfully seeking service with the emperor maximillian there. he ultimately returned to missouri, where he died in poverty and was buried in st. louis. ==early life and career== sterling "old pap" price was born near farmville, in prince edward county, virginia, into a family of welsh origin. his mother was elizabeth williamson, and his father was pugh price, whose ancestor john price[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp famil
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