Samuel Woodson Price (August 5, 1828 – January 22, 1918) was a portraitist, author and Union Army officer in the American Civil War.

Price was wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, 1864, when his regiment captured and held the Moulton and Dallas Road while being greatly outnumbered.

He recovered from his wound and was subsequently assigned as post commander of Lexington, a position he held until the war ended.

[3] Price relocated to Washington, D.C. soon after the Civil War where he received commissions to paint portraits of generals George H. Thomas and William S. Rosecrans.

In 1869 he was appointed postmaster of Lexington where he spent a great deal of his time painting on the upper floor of the post office building.

He also wrote The Old Masters of the Bluegrass, which was published by the Filson Club in 1902 and Biographical Sketch of Colonel Joseph Crockett in 1909.