The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-10-12
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 (borD
about the year l8i0) of Prince Edward 4
county, Virginia, but early moved to Mis-
/ souri,, where he gradually obtained promi-
nence as lawyer and politician. His first
/ appearance IN public character was In
Io40, 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 President Polk's
administration. The Mexican war breaking
out, he was authorized by President Polk to
raise regiment of cavalry 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 -regi-
ments raised during the war. Itwas known
as the Second Missouri mounted volunteers.
Col Price soon distinguished himself by
the prompt manner In which he suppressed
the insurrectiOn Of the New Mexicans and
Puebla Indians in his district of General
Kearny's department of New Mexico.
This brief campaign, which would to-day
be considered SO insignificant as to hardly
deserve recital, made Price Brigadier Gen
eral of volunteers, his commission dating
July 20, l847. 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 Is,
lo48, against very superior force of Mexi-
cans 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, January "a, l847.
After the conclusion of the Mexican war
Gen. Price was elected Governor of Mis-
souri,, and served four years in that capacity,
from 1854 to 1857, with great credit to him
self and to the State. He was afterward
Bank Commissioner. During the excite
ment in the early part of the year 1861,
Gen. Price was a staunch, earnest and de-
voted Union man, using the whole of his
powerful influence IN opposition to the Sc
cessiOn of his State from the Union He
was elected a delegate from the Charlton
district (where he lived, to the Constitu-
tiOnal Convention, and such was the pro-
nOunced character of his Unionism that he
was elected President Of that body By a vote
of % to 10. This Convention, after refu-
sing by most decided and almost unani-
nous vote to adopt resolutions setting forth
that there was adequate cause for the Sc
cessiOn of Missouri from the Union, ad-
jOurned on the 2lst day of March, 1861, to
the third Monday of the following December
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 There was always something id |
his character which attracted to him the |
affection Of those by whom he was sur
rounded. In person he was dignifed and |
soldierly. His face was lighted up with be-
nevolence and kindness, for, with all the !
of his life, he had good, warm,
generous heart Disappearing of |
so much of his conducive have reference |
here only to his course during the war
it is with unaffected sorrow we record the |
death of one who possessed so many good |
and noble qualities, and earnestly do we
join with his personal friends in paying !
tribute to his memory