The National tribune., 1910-08-25

ed stand and held Kentucky firmly to
the Union. He raised the 21St KY, a
fine fighting organization. among his
friends and neighborS. and commanded
it with skill and gallantry for three
years, receiving a brevet of Brigadier-
General for specially gallant and meri-
torious service. particularly in leading
his regiment in the assault of June q,
1864, on the enemy's works. whore he
gained the position and, tho greatly
outnumbered, held it stubborply until
reinforced by the rest of the command
He continued in the service until the
close of the war, not being mustered
out until Dec. 9, 1865.
Gen. Price while splendid military
man was also musician and artist.
Perhaps first of all he was an artist.
When just a boy in school he was al
ways caricaturing his schoolmateS, and
when he entered the Kentucky Military
Institute in 1886 at the age of IS he
was very shortly appointed Professor
of Drawing with the rank of Lieuten-
ant. The way in which he turned from
lead pencil and charcoal to work in
oils forms a unique story When he
was IA years of age an itinerant artist
was found dead on the roadside near
Nicholasville, Gen. Prices home. No
one knows who he was nor whence he
came. He left lot of paints and
A friend of the boy artist bought the
lot for him. and he Immediately began
to paint in colors. He was the pride
of the village. and the proprietor of the
NicholasvilIe Hotel gave him a room
for a studio and he began work like a
real artist. oddly enough. too. his first
effort in oil was flag ordered by the
ladies of Nicholasville to be presented
to Capt Harvey's company, just re-
no IN
design was an eagle lowering over a
lone star, the eagle being on the United
States Flag andthe lone star on that
of Texas. The design might be easily
interpreted to mean that if the eagle
got the star the United States would get
Texas Both the design and the execu-
ton of the work were much admired
and to this day Gen. Price is proud of
his first attempt in Oil Later he did
very fine work in portraiture. and after
the war he undertook what is known
as figure composition. He was award
ed the medal at the Cincinnati EXPOSE
ton, where his king Solomon" and
Gen. Thomas" were exhibited with a
number of others. He considers his
portrait of Gen. Thomas one of the
greatest of his works. and it was paint
ed from life 1t represents the old hero
in his tent the night after the battle of
Chickamauga. He also painted portraits
of Gen. RosecranS and Gen. Sherman.
In 1873 he exhibited at the National
Academy of Design in New York, and
his portraits were pronounced among
the best in that celebrated collection of
the gems of art.
At the battle of Kenesaw Mountain
! Gen. Price received a wound which was
generally supposed to be mortal, but he
| recovered from il apparently with only
| the loss of strength and physical endur-
ance. The mimic ball which had pene-
| trated the canopy of his breast and
taken part of mis- clothing with it final
| ly led TO loss of his eyesight, and by
1879 he was totally blind. and remains
so to this day.
! Since his hand could not longer show
| its cunning with colors or pencil, Gen
Price turned to the pen. and has be-
conle quite a notable figure as a histOri.
! cal writer Many of his sketches were
dictated to his daughter, then Miss Sal
/ lie Price, who later married Myron J
Ferren, Past Commander of Phil Sheri-
dan Post. Gen. Prices health is very
good. altho he was 81 years old Aug. 5
Mai Levi F. Burnett. u s. Army, re-
tired, died at his home at Coronado
Beach. Cal, last week. and his body
was brought here for interment in Ar
| lington. Maj. Burnett was severely
wounded at the battle of Antietan
while acting as Lieutenant, and it was
for his valor during that battle and
that of South Mountain that he was
promoted to the rank of Captain.
In the fire at the Brussels Exposition
the American display and exhibits were
not injured and everything is intact
Neither was any American hurt in that
awful disaster.