Sterling Price

By jalbertson

  • Birth of Sterling Price

    Birth of Sterling Price
    Sterling Price was born on September 20th, 1809, in Farmville, Virginia.

  • Sterling Price Attends Hampden-Sydney College

    Sterling Price Attends Hampden-Sydney College
    Sterling Price attends Hampden-Sydney College in 1826.

  • Sterling Price Marries Martha Head

    Sterling Price Marries Martha Head
    On May 14, 1833, Sterling Price married Martha Head. They had seven children, but only five survived to adulthood.

  • Sterling Price joins the Missouri State House of Representatives

    Sterling Price was elected into the Missouri State House of Representatives in 1836 and served until 1844.

  • Sterling Price and the Mormon War

    Sterling Price and the Mormon War
    Sterling Price served as a Member of a Delegation in the Mormon War.

  • Sterling Price serves in the 29th U.S Congress

    Sterling Price served in the U.S Congress from 1845 until 1846.

  • Sterling Price resigns from Congresss to join the Mexican-American War

    Sterling Price resigned from Congress to join the Mexican-American War.

  • Sterling Price serves as Military Governor of New Mexico.

    Sterling Price becomes the Military Governor of New Mexico.

  • Sterling Price wins at the Batlle of Santa Cruz de Rosales

    Sterling Price wins at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales after the treaty was signed.

  • Elected Governor of Missouri

    Sterling Price was elected governor of Missouri in 1852.

  • Becomes State Bank Commisoner

    Sterling was elected to be the State Bank Commisioner,

  • Sterling votes against secession

    At first, Price voted against the Confederacy.

  • Sterling is outraged after Francis Preston Blair Jr. and Nathaniel Lyon seize the state militia's Camp Jackson at St. Louis.

    This causes Sterling to change his mind and side with the Confederacy.

  • Price takes command of the Missouri State Guard.

    Price takes command of the Missouri State Guard.

  • Price wins at the Battle of the Hemp Bales and at the Battle of Wilson's Creek

    Price wins his first battles of the Civil War.

  • Sterling Fights in Arkansas

    Sterling Price fought the Union in Arkansas in the summer of 1863.

  • Sterling heads to Lousiana

    Sterling heads to Lousiana.

  • Sterling's Missouri Campaign

    Sterling's Missouri Campaign. It is the last Confederate campaign west of the Mississippi River.

  • Sterling Price gets intestinal problems.

    Sterling Price gets intestinal problems when he heads to Mexico after the war.

  • Sterling Price dies of Chronic Diarrhea

    Sterling Price died of Chronic Diarrhea in late August in 1866.