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Sterling Price was born on September 20th, 1809, in Farmville, Virginia.
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Sterling Price attends Hampden-Sydney College in 1826.
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On May 14, 1833, Sterling Price married Martha Head. They had seven children, but only five survived to adulthood.
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Sterling Price was elected into the Missouri State House of Representatives in 1836 and served until 1844.
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Sterling Price served as a Member of a Delegation in the Mormon War.
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Sterling Price served in the U.S Congress from 1845 until 1846.
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Sterling Price resigned from Congress to join the Mexican-American War.
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Sterling Price becomes the Military Governor of New Mexico.
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Sterling Price wins at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales after the treaty was signed.
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Sterling Price was elected governor of Missouri in 1852.
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Sterling was elected to be the State Bank Commisioner,
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At first, Price voted against the Confederacy.
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This causes Sterling to change his mind and side with the Confederacy.
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Price takes command of the Missouri State Guard.
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Price wins his first battles of the Civil War.
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Sterling Price fought the Union in Arkansas in the summer of 1863.
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Sterling heads to Lousiana.
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Sterling's Missouri Campaign. It is the last Confederate campaign west of the Mississippi River.
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Sterling Price gets intestinal problems when he heads to Mexico after the war.
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Sterling Price died of Chronic Diarrhea in late August in 1866.
