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Rh with about 2,000 men, was left in charge of New Mexico, Gen. Ke.arny moving with the remainder of the command to California, An insurrection occurred in Santa Fe, to which Gov. Brent and several of his officers fell victims during their .-il>- sence from the town. Col. Price now attacked the Mexicans, completed the conquest of the province in several brilliant actions, and after promotion to brigadier-general of volunteers, 20 July, 1847, marched to Chihuahua, of which he was made military governor. Fie defeated the Mexicans at Santa Cruz de Resales, 16 March, 1848. Gen. Price was governor of Missouri from 1853 till 1857, bank commissioner of the state from 1857 till 1861, and president of the State convention on 4 March. 1861. He was appointed major-gen- eral of the Missouri state guard on 18 May, and after he had been joined by Gen. Ben McCulloch and Gen. Pearce with Confed- erate troops and Ar- kansas militia, they defeated Gen. Na- thaniel Lyon at Wil- son's creek, in south- western Missouri, 10 Aug., 1861. Price then advanced north- ward and invested Lexington, on Mis- souri river. 12 Sept., 1861. He captured the place, with 3,500 men, on 21 Sept., but fell back southward before Gen. John C. Fremont, and went into winter-quarters near Springfield, whence he was driven by Gen. Samuel R. Curtis, 12 Feb., 1862, and retreated toward Fort Smith, Ark. Gen. Earl Van Dorn assumed command of Price's and McCulloch's armies, attacked Curtis at Pea Ridge, 7 March, 1862, and was defeated. Van Dorn was now ordered to Tennessee. Price participated in the engagements around Corinth, retreated under Beauregard to Tupelo, was assigned to the command of the Army of the West in March, 1862, and then to the district of Tennessee. He moved toward Nashville, and met and fought with Gen. William S. Rosecrans, in command of Grant's right, at luka, 19 Sept., 1862, but was ordered to report to Van Dorn, and by his direction abandoned luka and joined him near Baldwyn. He participated in Van Dorn's dis- astrous attack upon Corinth in October, 1862, and in the operations under Gen. John C. Pemberton in northern Mississippi during the winter of 1862-'3. He was then ordered to the Trans-Mis- sissippi department, took part in the unsuccessful attack upon Helena, 21 July, 1863, and was as- signed to the command of the district of Arkansas. He was driven from Little Rock by Gen. Frederic Steele, but successfully resisted Steele's advance toward Red river in March, 1864, and forced him to retreat. He made a raid into Missouri in Sep- tember, 1864. had many engagements with the National forces, and reached Missouri river, but was driven out of the state and into southwest- ern Arkansas. After the surrender of the Con- federate armies he went to Mexico, but he re- turned to Missouri in 1866.

PRICE, Theophilus Townsend, physician, b. in Cape May county, N. .!., 21 May. 1828. He re- ceived an academical education, taught school for a time, then studied medicine, was graduated in at Pennsylvania medical college, and set- tled in practice at Tuckerton, N. J. In 1863 he served as a volunteer surgeon in the army. Since 1870 he has been acting assistant surgeon in the U. S. marine hospital service, the first and only ap- pointment of the kind in New Jersey, the govern- ment medical service on the entire New Jersey coast being under his charge. He is one of the pro- jectors of the Tuckerton railroad, and since 1N7! has been the secretary. He lias served in the New Jersey legislature, is one of the trustees of the New Jersey reform school for boys, and of the South Jersey institute, and a member of the State medical and historical societies. He has contributed to medical journals, and both in prose and poetry to various periodicals. Many of his war songs have become widely known. He is the author of the entire historical and descriptive part of the " His- torical and Biographical Atlas of the New Jersey Coast" (Philadelphia, 1877).

PRICE, Thomas Lawson, contractor, b. near Danville, Va., 19 Jan., 1809 ; d. in Jefferson City, Mo., 16 July, 1870. His father was a wealthy to- bacco-planter. In 1831 the son settled in Jefferson City, Mo. He first engaged in mercantile pursuits, and afterward bought and sold real estate. In 1838 he obtained the contract for carrying the mail between St. Louis and Jefferson City, and es- tablished the first stage-line connecting those places. Ultimately he gained control of all the stage-routes in the state, and became lessee of the State penitentiary. He was chosen the first mayor of Jefferson City in 1838, and was re-elected. In 1847 he was appointed brevet major-general of the 6th division of Missouri militia, and in 184!) he was elected lieiitenant-governor on the Democratic ticket. In 1856 Gen. Price headed a Benton dele- gation to the Democratic national convention that nominated James Buchanan, but was not admitted. In 1860 he was elected to the state legislature, and on 21 Sept., 1861, was appointed by Gen. John C. Fremont brigadier-general of volunteers. The ap- pointment expired by limitation, 17 July, 1862. He was elected to congress in place of John W. Reid, expelled, and served from 21 Jan., 1862, till 3 March, 1863. In 1864 he was nominated by the Union men for governor, although there was no hope of his election. About this time his health began to fail, and his only subsequent appearance in public life was as delegate to the Democratic national convention in 1868, where he acted as vice-presi- dent when Horatio Seymour was nominated. Dur- ing the greater part of his career Gen. Price was connected with railroads, both as contractor and officer. When a member of the legislature he was largely instrumental in inducing the state to lend its aid to the construction of the Iron Mountain and Hannibal and St. Joseph roads. He was also identified with the construction of the Missouri Pacific and the Kansas Pacific. Of the former he was one of the first and largest contractors. Be- sides building the greater part of the Kansas Pa- cific, he was also a fund commissioner and director of that road, and united with other capitalists in extending the line from Denver to Cheyenne.

PRIDEAUX, John, British soldier, b. in Devonshire, England, in 1718; d. near Fort Niagara, 19 July, 1759. He was the second son of Sir John Prideaux, bart., and early entered the army, serving in the battle of Dettingen in 1743. He became captain in the 3d foot-guards, 24 Feb.. 1745, colonel of the 55th foot, 20 Oct., 1758. a ml hrigadier-general, 5 May, 1759. In 1759 he was intrusted by William Pitt with the command of one of the four divisions of the army that was to conquer Canada,