Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-04
GENERAL STERLING PRICE.

Gen. Sterling Price whose death has al
ready been announced as occurring at st.
Louis on the 29th inst. was a native (born
about the year 1870 of Prince Edwards
county, Virginia, but early moved to Mis-
souri,, where he gradually obtained promi-
nence as a lawyer and politician. His first
appearance in public character was in
lS45, when he was elected member of the
House of Representatives in Congress
from the then third district of Missouri,
serving during the first two years Of Presi-
dent Polk's administration. The Mexican
war breaking out, he was authorized by
President Polk to raise regiment of cav
airy for service in Mexico, was mustered in
August u, 1876, and early in the war
marched to Santa Fe with one of the best
volunteer cavalry regiments raised during
the war. 1t was known as the Cd Missouri
mounted volunteers. Col. Price soon dis
tinguished himself by the prompt manner
in which he suppressed the insurrection of
the New Mexicans and Puebla Indisns in
his district of Gen. Kearny's department
of New Mexico.
This brief campaign, which would to-
day be considered so insignificant as to
hardly deserve recital made Price Brig
adler General Of volunteers, his commits
sion dating July Goth, 1S47. His second
battle in Mexico is known as that of Santa
Cruz de Rosales, and was properly a siege.
The principal battle of the siege was
fought March 10th, lS48, against a very
superior force of Mexicans under Don
Angel Freas, Governor of Chihuahua, and
resulted in the capture of the place and the
entire garrison. He was wounded in an
engagement at Canada, New Mexico, Jam
uary 24th, l847.
After the conclusion of the Mexican
war, Gen. Price was elected Governor of
Missouri, and served four years in that ca
| pacity, from 1853 to 1857, with great credit
to himself and TO the State. He was af-
| terward Bank Commissioner. During the
excitement in the early part of the year
| 1861, Gen. Price was a staunch, earnest
and devoted Union man, using the whole
| of his powerful influence in opposition TO
| the secession of his State from the Union.
He was elected delegate from the Chari-
ton district where he lived, to the Con-
| stitutional Convention, and such was the
| pronounced character OF his Unionism that
| he was elected President of that body by a
! vote OF 70 to Is. This Convention, after
refusing bya most decided and almost unan-
imous vote to adopt resolutions setting forth
that there was adequate cause for the Sc
cession of Missouri from the Union, ad-
journed on the Dist day Of March, 1861,
to tbs third Monday of the following De-
cember.
Gen. Price continued to labor to avert
hostilities until the precipitancy of a mad
cap, General Lyon, representing the ma
tional power in Missouri, destroyed all hope
Of peace, and manifested an aggressive
spirit which drove him to resistance. His
career as a General in the Confederate army
developed distinguished ability, but he
labored under numerous disadvantages and
obstacles, and it was one of mingled success
| and defeat
There was no commander in the South so
popular with his troops and the people as
Gen. Price. Phere was always something In
his character which attracted TO him the
affection of those by whom he was sur
rounded. In person he was digni6ed and
soldierly. His face was lighted up with
benevolenee and kindness, for, with all the
mistakes of his life, he had good, warm,
lmpulsive, generous heart. Disappearing
Of 80 much Of his conducive have refer,
enee here only TO his course during the war
1t is with unaffected sorrow We record the