Mr. Price was first under fire at Fay-
etteville and later at Charleston, White
Sulphur Springs, New Market, North
Anna River, all throueh the Wilder-
ness campaign and until his capture as
alK)ve mentioned, when he was suffer-
ing from a bayonet wound. At Fay-
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a piece of spent shell, and suffered for
six months with typhoid fever. After
his capture, he was taken to Point
Lookout prison and kept there until
July, and was then transferred to
Elmira, New York, where he was one
of the sergeants in charge of the mess
room in the prison for some 6,000
prisoners. He was exchanged in
March, 1865, and reached home just
before the surrender of General Lee.
After recuperation, Mr. Price en-
gaged in a mercantile business at
Organ Cave, Greenbrier County, and
in 1880 was elected deputy sheriff, and
acceptably filled the office for four
years, at the close of his term remov-
ing to Ronceverte. There he associ-
ated himself with A. E. White, in an
agricultural implement and fertilizer
business, which he sold in 1886, and
engaged for two years until a fire de-
stroyed his plant in a foundry busi-
ness. In 1888 he was again elec.ecl
deputy sheriff and remained in office
until 1892, when he embarked in a
furniture business in Ronceverte, W^est
Virginia, and later at Covington, Vir-
ginia, which he continued until 1901,
when he disposed of it and has been
actively interested in real estate and
collections since that time.
Mr. Price has been twice married.
