Sterling Price - Confederate General - Bond

Sterling Price (1809-1867), Governor of Missouri, representative, Very Important Confederate General. Representative 1844-46, Brigadier General in the Mexican War and Military governor of Chihuahua, elected Governor of Missouri in 1852. At the start of the Civil War, he was placed in command of the state troops, beat the Union army in the battle of Wilson's Creek and killed the commander, Nathaniel Lyon, thus making him very popular among Southerners. Then he marched northward and captured 3,000 Federal troops at Lexington in Sept. 1861. Fremont's forces forced his retreat into Arkansas where his troops officially joined the Confederate Army in April 1862. His later efforts mostly failed though he was perhaps the leading secession figure west of the Mississippi. Jefferson once pronounced him the "vainest man he ever met". His friends however insisted that he was a man of character and military genius. At the end of the war, he settled in Mexico but following the collapse of Maximilian's empire he returned in 1866 to Missouri a broken man. $1,000 Bond signed by Sterling Price as Governor. This 1853 State of Missouri Bond is neatly mounted to its original ledger paper, a loose strip of coupons is also present. The clear signature is very slightly hole cancelled. Rare and Important Confederate General's Autograph!