April 11, 1873(1873-04-11) (aged 55) near Tule Lake, California
Place of burial
Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis
Allegiance
United States of America
Union
Service/branch
United States Army
Union Army
Years of service
1839–1873
Rank
Major general
Commands held
Department of New Mexico Fort Snelling
Battles/wars
Indian Wars
Second Seminole War
Mexican–American War
Battle of Contreras
Battle of Churubusco
Battle of Mexico City
Utah War
Indian Wars
Navajo War of 1860
American Civil War
Battle of Valverde
Battle of Peralta
Battle of Spanish Fort
Battle of Fort Blakely
Indian Wars
Modoc War
Spouse(s)
Louisa Hawkins Canby
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Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (November 9, 1817 – April 11, 1873) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. He served as a military governor after the war.
In 1861–1862, Canby commanded the Department of New Mexico, defeating the Confederate General Henry Hopkins Sibley at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, forcing him to retreat to Texas. At the war's end, he took the surrender of Generals Richard Taylor and Edmund Kirby Smith.
As commander of the Pacific Northwest in 1873, he was assassinated by Chief Kintpuash during peace talks with the Modoc, who were refusing to move from their California homelands.
Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (November 9, 1817 – April 11, 1873) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War...
Canby Mountain is a 13,478-foot-elevation (4,108-meter) mountain summit in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. Canby Mountain is located six miles...
at a peace commission meeting, Captain Jack and others killed General EdwardCanby and Rev. Eleazer Thomas, and wounded two others, mistakenly believing...
Brigadier General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby. Canby was a nurse for Confederate soldiers in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Before General EdwardCanby ordered his troops...
the supplies in the fort and defeating the Federal army under Colonel EdwardCanby. On January 3, 1862, Sibley left El Paso with three regiments and one...
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Los Lunas. On April 14 the pursuing Union Army forces under Colonel EdwardCanby caught up with Green. At dawn, Union cavalry attacked and captured the...
John McGregor in 1874 and EdwardCanby in 1886 so that by 1897 the company had taken the name "Crawford, McGregor & Canby", with its base of operations...
executed for the murder of EdwardCanby. He reportedly met his execution stoically, asking only for tobacco. Death of EdwardCanby "Native Americans - Modoc"...
1865, other Confederate surrenders continued into June 1865. Maj. Gen. EdwardCanby's Union forces, the XVI and XIII Corps, moved along the eastern shore...
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Rockies. Union forces in the Department of New Mexico were led by Colonel EdwardCanby, who headquartered at Fort Craig. Under his immediate command at the...
West Mississippi, in the Department of the Gulf commanded by Maj. Gen. EdwardCanby. After the disastrous Red River Campaign, Nathaniel P. Banks resigned...
teaching Mescalero Apache and Navajo how to be modern farmers. General EdwardCanby, whom Carleton replaced, had first suggested that the Navajo people be...
removal by President Andrew Johnson on August 26, 1867, Brigadier General EdwardCanby took over command until both states were readmitted in July 1868. Its...
offices of state government. A temporary military government headed by EdwardCanby was set up until new elections were held after the writing of the Constitution...
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the coat of a deceased US Cavalry Captain. Prior to murdering General EdwardCanby (Warner Anderson) during a peace negotiation, Bronson's character puts...
Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet and composer (b. 1824) 1873 – EdwardCanby, American general (b. 1817) 1890 – David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo, Dutch...
land attack at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Late in the war, Maj. Gen. EdwardCanby's Military Division of West Mississippi was given the army's two remaining...
Elizabeth (née Waller); his elder sister was Louisa Hawkins Canby (who married Major General EdwardCanby). He graduated from West Point in 1852 as 40th out of...
Kintpuash and three of his warriors for the murder of Major General EdwardCanby and Rev. Eleazar Thomas, Scarface Charley was appointed by Colonel Frank...