Samuel D. Pryce (1841–1923) was an American businessman, Civil War officer and author based in Iowa.
Over many years, he composed a regimental history, which was finally published in 2008 under the title Vanishing Footprints: The Twenty-Second Iowa Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War.
[1][2] After the war, he helped start the Good Roads Movement in Iowa.
He was promoted on the battlefield, and eventually served as Captain of Company A, adjutant of the regiment, and adjutant-general of Gen. Molineaux's brigade.
[6] He twice declined the Republican Party's nomination to be a Representative,[7] but served in a number of local positions in Iowa City.