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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS General Price (1863-1865),
also known as General Sterling Price

USS General Price, a 633-ton side-wheel river steamer, was built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856 as the commercial towboat Laurent Millaudon. She served the Confederacy as the ram CSS General Sterling Price in 1861-62 and was sunk on 6 June 1862 during the Battle of Memphis, Tennessee. Raised and repaired by Federal forces, she was commissioned for U.S. Navy service in March 1863 as USS General Price, though her old name also continued to be used.

General Price was involved in the Vicksburg campaign in March and April 1863, and took part in the Mississippi Squadron's run past the Confederate fortress city on 17 April. During the rest of the Civil War, she operated against Grand Gulf and Vicksburg, in the Red and Black Rivers and elsewhere in the lower Mississippi River area. On 8 March 1864, General Price accidently rammed and sank USS Conestoga. She took part in the Red River Expedition during the next month. Decommissioned in July 1865, USS General Price was sold the following October.

This page features all our views of USS General Price and provides links to other pictures related to her.

For images related of this ship in Confederate service, see: CSS General Sterling Price.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

Photo #: NH 53870

USS General Price (1863-1865)


Off Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 18 January 1864, with USS Lexington in the left background.
The original print is mounted on a Carte de Visite.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 117KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 53869

USS General Price (1863-1865)


Off Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 18 January 1864.
The original print is mounted on a Carte de Visite.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 60329

USS General Price (1863-1865)


Photographed while tied up at a Western Rivers settlement, circa 1863-65.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 47KB; 740 x 285 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 65459

USS General Price (1863-1865)


Pen and ink drawing by Samuel Ward Stanton.

Collections of the Navy Department, 1967.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 430 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 76557-KN (Color)

"Admiral Porter's Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863."

Colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives, New York, 1863.
Ships depicted are (from the front to the rear, all USS except as noted)): Benton (Flagship); Lafayette with General Price alongside; Louisville; Mound City; Pittsburg; Carondelet; transports Silver Wave, Forest Queen & Henry Clay; and Tuscumbia.
Text under the print's title is quoted in Photo # NH 76557-KN (Complete Caption).

Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Beverley R. Robinson Collection.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 180KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 47152

Acting Volunteer Lieutenant James F. Richardson


Civil War era photograph.
He commanded USS Judge Torrance in 1862-63, and USS General Price in 1863-64.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 82KB; 610 x 765 pixels

 


 

The following image provides a partial view of USS General Price at the edge of a photograph of another ship:

Photo #: NH 60501

USS Red Rover (1862-1865)


Tied up astern of USS General Sterling Price, on the Western Rivers during the Civil War.
Note derelict machinery in the foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 565 pixels

 

For images related to this ship in Confederate service, see: CSS General Sterling Price.


Note: Our Photo # NH 53868 was long identified as representing USS General Price. However, it clearly does not depict that ship.


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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Link added 8 June 2000