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Sterling Price (September 14, 1809 – September 29, 1867) was a United States general and senior officer of the Confederate States Army who fought in both the Western and Trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War.
9 lug 2019 · Il maggiore generale Sterling Price era un comandante confederato durante la guerra civile americana. Sterling Price guidò le forze confederate in Occidente durante i primi anni del conflitto. A capo di un'invasione del Missouri nel 1864, Sterling Price fu sconfitto dalle forze dell'Unione.
Learn about the life and career of Sterling Price, a former Missouri governor and a Confederate general who fought in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. Find out his achievements, battles, and fate after the war.
Sterling Price (20 settembre 1809 – 29 settembre 1867) è stato un avvocato, politico e generale statunitense. Biografia
22 mar 2024 · Sterling Price was a Confederate general in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and a former governor of Missouri. He fought in the Mexican-American War, negotiated the Price-Harney Truce, and led the Missouri State Guard in several battles.
- Harry Searles
Sterling Price was a lawyer, planter, politician, brigadier general of volunteers in the Mexican-American War and Governor of Missouri from 1853 to 1857. He began the Civil War opposed to secession but reversed himself after Federal militia under Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon seized Camp Jackson, where pro-secessionist militia had gathered.
Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on September 11, 1809, Sterling Price was the son of a tobacco planter of middling status who provided a comfortable home and a good education for his five children.
