Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg

Life Span
to
Full name
Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
Place of birth
Piatt's Landing, KY
Burial Place
Indianapolis, IN
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Occupation
Military
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
US military (Post-Civil War)
Date Event
Secretary of War Floyd orders operations against the Navajo
Confederate Brigadier-General Henry H. Sibley marches from San Antonio to launch his invasion of New Mexico
At Fort Bliss, Confederate Brigadier-General Henry Sibley takes command of the "Army of New Mexico"
Confederate Brigadier General Henry H. Sibley inflicts a heavy defeat on Union forces in New Mexico
The Confederate invasion of New Mexico reaches and occupies the territorial capital of Santa Fe
In Alabama, the Union's capture of Spanish Fort makes the city of Mobile's fall only a matter of time
At Citronelle, Alabama, Confederate General Richard Taylor surrenders his forces of the Department of Alabama
In New Orleans, military governor General Edward Canby suspends the results of the mayoral election
Date Title
Edward R.S. Canby, General Orders No. 109, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 15, 1865
Date Title
William T. Sherman to Ulysses S. Grant, Goldsboro, North Carolina, April 8, 1865
Daniel Sickles, Confirmation of sentences in the case of the whipping of Phillis Ruffin, Charleston, South Carolina, August 17, 1867,
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