Pryce,Mr.

PRYCE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/18/2006 at 10:55:05

Mr. Pryce participated in all the battles and campaigns in which his regiment was engaged, and never missed a day's service. He was for a long time regimental adjutant, and was promoted to the captaincy of his company; served on the staff of [p.312] General Molineux of New York as inspector-general, and the last year as assistant adjutant-general of the Second brigade, second division, Nineteenth army corps, and was one of the youngest officers of this rank in the volunteer service. With thirteen officers of other regiments and Sergeant Major George Remley of the Twenty-second, who was killed in this battle, be is mentioned in general orders, now published in the official register, for conspicuous bravery at the battle of Winchester. He was one of the first officers to meet General Sheridan on the Winchester road on the retreat at Cedar Creek and saw him rally the scattered remnants and heard the magic words that turned defeat into victory. He was sent in command of a scouting party to reconnoitre Fisher's hill with ten picked men. and spent the entire night, at times, inside of the enemy's lines, returning before daylight the next morning, and made his report in person to Generals Sheridan, Custer and the other famous generals of this campaign. The charge was made in a few hours and the position taken. He wrote the reports of the regiment for the adjutant general of the state, and a history of the regiment which was published in pamphlet form in the name of the regimental bugler. Ingersoll, in his history of "Iowa and the Rebellion," refers to Adjutant Pryce's generous praise of officers of his regiment in his reports to Adjutant-General Baker, and says "It is for me to say, on the authority of eye witnesses, that in this great battle where not a single man faltered, no one acquitted himself more handsomely than he did himself."

In the early spring of 1865 he came to Iowa, hoping to find an opening for business where enterprise, energy and courage might supply the lack of money, and located at West Branch, Cedar county. He soon secured a clerkship in the general store of Mr. Joseph Steere and was for over two years in his employ as clerk at West Branch, and manager of his store at Springdale. During that time he had taken up the study of dentistry and after leaving the store went to Iowa City and completed a course of study in the office of Dr. N. H. Tulloss, and commenced practice on January 1, 1868, at Wilton Junction. ~ "Progressive Men of Iowa" page 312.