about the use of swamp and overflowed lands. In 1860, President of the United States James Buchanan named Price Treasurer of the United States, an office Price held from February 28, 1860 to March 21, 1861. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Price joined Missouri's Confederate brigade, under the command of his cousin, Sterling Price. He was taken prisoner by Union forces at the Battle of Pea Ridge (March 6–8, 1862) and was imprisoned at Alton, Illinois for eight months. He was then exchanged for a Union prisoner held by the Confederacy at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Confederate President Jefferson Davis then assigned him as a recruiting officer in Missouri with the rank of Major. Price resigned in 1864 and moved to Arkansas in an attempt to rebuild his finances as a farmer. After the war, he returned to Missouri, practicing law first at St. Louis, Missouri, later at Springfield, Missouri. A longtime member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Price became increasingly interested in theological topics in his later years. He has been described as a "religious fanatic." Price died in 1901. References Profile from kansasboguslegislature.org William E. Connelley, A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans (1918), Ch. 14 1816 births 1901 deaths People from Greene County, Missouri People from Russell County, Virginia Missouri Democrats Missouri lawyers Treasurers of the United States Southern Methodists American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law 19th-century Methodists