Two Civil War Veterans Talking About Fighting in the Civil War
These are two Civil War veterans, aged 84 and 94, talking about fighting in the Civil War. Filmed in 1929, at the time of the Civil War the two men would have been 16 years old and 26 years old when the war started in 1861.
The General Price they mentioned is none other than General Sterling Price:
On August 10, 1861, at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek outside Springfield, Price’s and McCulloch’s combined force defeated Lyon, forcing the federals’ withdrawal. At Wilson’s Creek, Lyon earned the unenviable distinction of being the first Union general killed in the war. In September, Price marched northward, driving from the border counties Kansas Jayhawkers under the command of James H. Lane. Price then marched to Lexington, where his army besieged and forced the surrender of a 3,500-man fortified garrison of federal troops and Home Guard under James A. Mulligan.
Pressed by troops under John C. Frémont, commander of the Department of the West, Price soon retreated into the southern counties, where he attende
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