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  Sterling Price - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Price raised and was appointed Colonel of the Second Regiment, Missouri Mounted Volunteer Cavalry on August 12, 1846.
Price commanded the Army of the West in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales on March 16, 1848.
Price was a leader of a Confederate exile colony in Carlota, Veracruz.
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 General Sterling Price
Price was elected to Congress in 1844 but resigned in 1846 to enter the Mexican War as a Colonel.
General Sterling Price (also called Sterling Price and General Price) was a wooden, river steamer built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856 as Laurent Millaudon.
General Sterling Price continued her patrol duties between New Orleans and Donaldsonville, La., until the end of the war.
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 Major General Sterling Price Army of the West Commander Confederate Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sterling Price was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia in 1809.
Sterling Price was Governor of Missouri from 1853 until 1857.
Price was raised to the rank of major general after the battle.
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 STERLING PRICE, CSA
Sterling Price was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on September 20, 1809.
Price served as military governor of New Mexico during the Mexican War, and was appointed a brigadier general.
In 1852, Price was elected governor, and later became commander of state troops.
www.multied.com /Bio/CWcGENS/CSAPrice.html   (219 words)

  
 Missouri Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Sterling Price Camp # 145
Sterling Price was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1840 and was chosen Speaker.
After Federal acts of atrocities, Price joined the forces of the secessionist Governor Claiborne F. Jackson and was appointed commander of the Missouri State Guard with the rank of major-general.
Price's Raid was unsuccessful in the face of the damn Yankees who had occupied Missouri for three years and enjoyed the luxury of central headquarter's.
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 Autograph Letter Signed, Aug. 4, 1862 - Sterling Price - Rare Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Price, commanding the District of the Tennessee, to Maj. Gen.
Price argues that the time was right for action in that area, as Union forces were still concentrated at Corinth or being moved eastward.
Sterling Price (1809-1867) was a Virginia native who settled in Missouri in his early twenties.
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 Price's Raid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Price's plan was capture St. Louis and its rich warehouses of military supplies, but if it turned out to be heavily defended, bypass it and swing west to capture the state capital, Jefferson City.
Price decided to send a detachment to Glasgow to liberate weapons and supplies in an arms storehouse, purported to be there.
As Price's Army of Missouri headed west towards Kansas City and Fort Leavenworth, Curtis's Army of the Border, in and around Westport, was blocking the Confederates' way west and Pleasonton's cavalry division was pressing Price's rear.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Price's_Raid   (2385 words)

  
 Price Sterling: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Elsewhere Sterlings domestic notes sometimes suggest that a poet with six children...ideal of family life without the interruption which is its price.
Eventually the price of sterling silver was fixed at 5...the cause of the high price of gold bullion and the depreciation of sterling on the foreign exchanges...
Price was governor of Missouri (1853 57) and president...Ben McCulloch defeated the Union forces.
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 Major General Sterling Price   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sterling Price, "Old Pap," was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on September 20, 1809.
Price served six years in the legislature, and was speaker the last four.
From 1844 to 1846 he was a member of Congress, and resigned in the latter year to participate in the Mexican War as colonel of the 2nd Missouri Infantry and Brigadier General of volunteers.
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 Sterling Price   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Elected president of the Missouri State Convention, Sterling Price presided over meetings in February and March of 1861, when the convention passed resolutions appealing for peace and preservation of the Union.
Price's troops figured prominently in battles at Wilson's Creek, in southwest Missouri, and Lexington, in Lafayette County; he later served as a general in the Confederate army.
The Missouri State Convention continued to meet as necessary between 1861 and 1863, but decided to expel Sterling Price from its membership in June 1862, possibly due to his exploits on behalf of the Confederacy.
www.sos.mo.gov /archives/resources/civilwar/resources.asp?id=sprice   (144 words)

  
 Sterling Price (1809 - 1867)
Sterling "Pap" Price (September 20, 1809 - September 29, 1867) was born in Prince Edward City, Virginia.
Price was governor of Missouri (1853-57) and president of the state convention of March 1861, which opposed secession.
Price wheeled to the west, along the south bank of the Missouri River.
www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/price.html   (1111 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Sterling Price (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Price was governor of Missouri (1853–57) and president of the state convention of Mar., 1861, which opposed secession.
Price then took Lexington but was soon obliged to retreat into Arkansas.
Price's raid through Missouri (Sept.–Oct., 1864), after initial successes, was finally turned back at Westport and was the last Confederate threat in the Far West.
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 Sterling Price   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Notes: Sterling Price (1809-1867), a former governor of Missouri and Confederate commander of Missouri troops, was not initially anti-Union, but the behavior of Union partisans caused him to turn Confederate.
Price started raising militia forces, and these formed the larger part, but not all, of the Confederate army at the Battle of Wilson's Creek.
I have the strange feeling that "Old General Price" and "Sterling Price" are a single piece, one being adapted from the other -- but since we don't have a single complete stanza of either, and only one tune, this is beyond proof.
www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/Beld355A.html   (397 words)

  
 Pea Ridge NMP: Confederate Commanders - Major General Sterling Price
Price initially opposed secession; but after Unionist militia fired into a pro-secession crowd after the capture of the Missouri State Guard at Camp Jackson, he embraced secession.
Price then wrote a series of stinging attacks on McCulloch in the local newspapers.
Price went to Mexico after the war, but returned to Missouri in 1866.
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 CurrencyShares.com : Products : CurrencyShares British Pound Sterling Trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
British Pound Sterling Trust are created to reflect the price of the currency held by the Trust, the market price of the shares could be as unpredictable, or more unpredictable, as the price of various foreign currency has historically been.
Prices are provided on a reasonable efforts basis and delays may occur both because of the delay in third parties communicating the information to the site and because of delays inherent in posting information over the internet.
Factors that may have the effect of causing a decline in the price of a foreign currency include national debt levels and trade deficits, domestic and foreign inflation rates, domestic and foreign interest rates, investment and trading activities of institutions and global or regional political, economic or financial events and situations.
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 General Sterling Price
General Sterling Price, often referred to as General Price, or Price, was built as Laurent Millaudon, L. Millandon, or Milledon, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856.
This allowed General Price to violently ram the Federal gunboat, taking away her rudder, stern post, and a large piece of her stern, decisively disabling her.
The Confederates quickly repaired General Price and later she participated with Montgomery's force in holding off Federal vessels until Fort Pillow was successfully evacuated on 1 June.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/cfa4/general_sterling_price.htm   (468 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sterling Price   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Price, Sterling PRICE, STERLING [Price, Sterling] 1809-67, Confederate general in the American Civil War, b.
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Average price of a home in the capital hits [pounds sterling]300k.
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 Campaign: Invasion of Missouri, Fall 1864
Price saw the opportunity to reenter Missouri, bringing the battlelines of late 1864 back to where they were first drawn in 1861.
The capture of St. Louis would again close the Mississippi and the seizure of the capital at Jefferson City would permit the installation of the state's secessionist government-in-exile.
Confederate records are incomplete and the Unionist units that contested their advance through the state were often militia units whose records were rarely included.
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 Sterling Price
In 1853, Price became the Governor of Missouri.
Price was the oldest of the leaders there.
In the South, General Sterling Price was famous and people called him a great hero.
history.missouristate.edu /FTMiller/LocalHistory/Bios/sprice.htm   (261 words)

  
 USS General Sterling Price
He was Chairton County's representative in the state legislature 1836-38 and 1840-4, and was elected Speaker of the House in 1840.
She was taken into the Confederate service, renamed General Sterling Price, converted to a ram, and saw action in the defense of Fort Pillow and Memphis, Tenn. In the Battle of Memphis, on 6 June 1862, General Sterling Price was sunk and captured by naval forces under Flag Officer C. Davis.
The ram was formerly transferred to the Navy by Quartermaster H. Wise at Cairo 30 September 1862.
www.multied.com /Navy/CWNavy/GeneralSterlingPrice.html   (727 words)

  
 BenjaminPrice1740
He may be Benjamin Price (of VA) who married in 1765 and might have died in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
Sterling Price was descended from the Price family of Henrico County, VA one
According to Holly Price theree is a story in the family that there were three brothers from Wales who went to 3 different states, Arkansas, Alabama and Missouri.
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 Arthur Price sterling silver photograph frames at China Etc
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 Sterling Homes : The Modular Advantage
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 Sterling Construction Home Remodeling & Additions
We understand your concerns in obtaining high quality remodeling at a reasonable price.
Sterling Construction Inc. performs all types of remodels, but we specialize in additions to existing homes.
You will take comfort in the fact that Sterling Construction Inc. is made up of highly skilled individuals, creative in finding solutions for virtually any problem.
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Sterling Price, or “Old Pap” as his soldiers called him, was the leader of the state militia during the secession crisis in Missouri.
It was Sterling Price’s Confederates who defeated Lyon at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek in August of 1861.
Although Price would twice attempt to gain control of the state, he would never see the success and power he enjoyed in the waning moments of the secession movement in Missouri.
home.gwu.edu /~adog/sterling.htm   (290 words)

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