Pryce, the son of a Welsh preacher, moved from Pennsylvania to Iowa in 1861 in order to study and teach. He left the classroom and enlisted as a private in the 22nd Iowa Infantry in August 1862. He was later promoted to captain and adjutant of the regiment. He took part in all of the actions fought by the regiment, and was cited for valor at the Battle of Third Winchester on 19 September 1864. By War's end, Pryce was serving as the brigade adjutant-general.
He worked as a businessman and newspaper publisher in Illinois and Iowa after the War. He twice declined the Republican Party's nomination to be a Representative, but served in a number of local positions in Iowa City. On 3 January 1883, the Iowa State Register published Pryce's Public Highways in Iowa, which became in large measure the basis of the good roads movement in Iowa, and led to the calling of a State road convention in Iowa City in March 1883. Pryce's recommendations, including the elimination of the labor tax and creation of a property tax, were adopted by the convention.
Pryce remained actively involved in veterans affairs. He was a delegate to the first national meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the leading Union ex-serviceman's organization. He wrote a regimental history of the 22nd Iowa, unpublished during his life, which was edited and finally published in 2008 under his original title, "Vanishing Footprints" (Camp Pope Press, Iowa City).
He moved to the Chicago area in the years before his death. He died in Englewood at the home of a niece. He had no children, and never married.
He worked as a businessman and newspaper publisher in Illinois and Iowa after the War. He twice declined the Republican Party's nomination to be a Representative, but served in a number of local positions in Iowa City. On 3 January 1883, the Iowa State Register published Pryce's Public Highways in Iowa, which became in large measure the basis of the good roads movement in Iowa, and led to the calling of a State road convention in Iowa City in March 1883. Pryce's recommendations, including the elimination of the labor tax and creation of a property tax, were adopted by the convention.
Pryce remained actively involved in veterans affairs. He was a delegate to the first national meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the leading Union ex-serviceman's organization. He wrote a regimental history of the 22nd Iowa, unpublished during his life, which was edited and finally published in 2008 under his original title, "Vanishing Footprints" (Camp Pope Press, Iowa City).
He moved to the Chicago area in the years before his death. He died in Englewood at the home of a niece. He had no children, and never married.
Pryce, the son of a Welsh preacher, moved from Pennsylvania to Iowa in 1861 in order to study and teach. He left the classroom and enlisted as a private in the 22nd Iowa Infantry in August 1862. He was later promoted to captain and adjutant of the regiment. He took part in all of the actions fought by the regiment, and was cited for valor at the Battle of Third Winchester on 19 September 1864. By War's end, Pryce was serving as the brigade adjutant-general.
He worked as a businessman and newspaper publisher in Illinois and Iowa after the War. He twice declined the Republican Party's nomination to be a Representative, but served in a number of local positions in Iowa City. On 3 January 1883, the Iowa State Register published Pryce's Public Highways in Iowa, which became in large measure the basis of the good roads movement in Iowa, and led to the calling of a State road convention in Iowa City in March 1883. Pryce's recommendations, including the elimination of the labor tax and creation of a property tax, were adopted by the convention.
Pryce remained actively involved in veterans affairs. He was a delegate to the first national meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the leading Union ex-serviceman's organization. He wrote a regimental history of the 22nd Iowa, unpublished during his life, which was edited and finally published in 2008 under his original title, "Vanishing Footprints" (Camp Pope Press, Iowa City).
He moved to the Chicago area in the years before his death. He died in Englewood at the home of a niece. He had no children, and never married.
He worked as a businessman and newspaper publisher in Illinois and Iowa after the War. He twice declined the Republican Party's nomination to be a Representative, but served in a number of local positions in Iowa City. On 3 January 1883, the Iowa State Register published Pryce's Public Highways in Iowa, which became in large measure the basis of the good roads movement in Iowa, and led to the calling of a State road convention in Iowa City in March 1883. Pryce's recommendations, including the elimination of the labor tax and creation of a property tax, were adopted by the convention.
Pryce remained actively involved in veterans affairs. He was a delegate to the first national meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the leading Union ex-serviceman's organization. He wrote a regimental history of the 22nd Iowa, unpublished during his life, which was edited and finally published in 2008 under his original title, "Vanishing Footprints" (Camp Pope Press, Iowa City).
He moved to the Chicago area in the years before his death. He died in Englewood at the home of a niece. He had no children, and never married.
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