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Title
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Confederate Military History
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Description
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Biographical sketch of General Sterling Price (1809-1867), a Confederate major general in Civil War Missouri and earlier governor of the state.
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Date
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1899
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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History of Greene County, Missouri
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Description
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Portrait of General Sterling Price (1809-1867), commander of the Confederate military forces during the Battle of Wilson's Creek.
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Date
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1883
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Sterling Price
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and information on General Sterling Price (1809-1867), Confederate military leader of Missouri. Native of Virginia moving to Missouri in 1831 and serving in the Mexian War before becoming state and national representative and governor retiring to Saint Louis after the war as a commission merchant.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
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Description
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Portrait and biographical sketch of Sterling Price (1809-1867), "a representative from Missouri" and the tenth governor of Missouri. Native of Virginia moving to Missouri in the early 1800s and becoming a statesman and military officer in the Mexican War and Confederate general in the Civil War, dying in Saint Louis.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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A Lady of Arcadia: The Doomed Garrison of Pilot Knob, and How It Was Saved
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, map, and article about the Civil War Battle of Pilot Knob in 1864 at Pilot Knob, Missouri, "situated eighty-six miles south of the city of St. Louis." Description of various military operations and officers in Civil War Missouri and depicting generals Sterling Price (Confederate) and Thomas Ewing (Union), et al.
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Date
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1895-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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General Sterling Price: The New Mexico Insurrection--1846-47
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Description
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Portrait and biographical article about General Sterling Price (1809-1867), a national representative from Missouri resigning his position to assume military leadership in the Mexican War in 1846-1847. Details on his role as a co-organizer of New Mexico and as the subject of a monument being made to memorialize him by the author's organization.
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Date
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1887-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Missouri! One Last Time
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Description
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Article provides a detailed account of of the 1864 attempt by forces under the command of General Sterling Price to retake Missouri for the Confederacy. It includes photographs of military leaders and battle grounds and black and white maps of Price's Missouri Expedition and the Battles of Pilot Knob, Glasgow, and Westport.
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Date
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1991-06
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Object Type
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Magazine
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Title
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Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865, Plate LXVI
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Description
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Composite of 11 small maps of Civil War battles, campaigns, and important locations. Campaign Against Sterling Price, 1864; Osage or Mine Creek, Kansas; Johnson's Island, Ohio Military Prison; Five Forks, Virginia; Westport and Big Blue, Missouri; Westport, Missouri; Newtonia, Missouri; and Charlot, Missouri (aka Shiloh Creek). Maps illustrate Union and Confederate positions, towns, rivers, railroads, and important local landmarks.
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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McLain's Battery and Price's 1864 Invasion: A Letter from Lt. Caleb S. Burdsal, Jr.
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Description
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The article starts out, "The following letter, written by Lt. Caleb S. Burdsal, Jr., of McLain's Independence Colorado Battery to his father in Denver, Colorado, sheds new light on the military service of the battery during the 1864 Missouri invasion by Maj. Gen. Sterling Price". The letter was written from Fort Scott, Kansas and is dated Oct. 29, 1864. This battery was originally included in the Third Brigade under Col. Charles W. Blair but moved into the Fourth Brigade commanded by Col. James H. Ford. Article includes photographs of those involved as well as maps and a short history of the encounter with Price in this area.
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Date
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1983
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
