Edward Canby

...war. The man's father wrote to Canby asking the general to use his influence to parole his son, but Canby declined on the grounds that he felt he was not entitled to use his influence to benefit family members. Later, when Canby was a military...

In this article: Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Henry Hopkins Sibley, Ulysses S. Grant, Elijah Steele, New Mexico, California, 2nd U.S. Infantry, 19th U.S. Infantry, and Indian Wars

...and in the Rockies . Union forces in the Department of New Mexico were led by Colonel Edward Canby, who headquartered at Fort Craig. Under his immediate command at the fort were five regiments of New Mexico volunteer infantry, a company...

In this article: Henry Hopkins Sibley, Fort Craig, Texas, John Slough, New Mexico Campaign, New Mexico, and Santa Fe

...fairgrounds, located north of Oregon Route 99E, are used in August for the fair and year-round for other events. Canby is named for Edward Richard Sprigg Canby , a Civil War general who was later killed in the Modoc War by Captain Jack and...

In this article: Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Union Pacific Railroad, Willamette River, Amtrak, Oregon, Modoc War, Civil War, and Wilsonville

...was encamped on the other side of the Rio Grande in the town of Los Lunas. On April 14 the pursuing Union Army forces under Colonel Edward Canby caught up with Green. At dawn, Union cavalry attacked and captured the Confederate wagon...

In this article: Henry Hopkins Sibley, Thomas Green, New Mexico Campaign, Rio Grande, Battle of Peralta, Los Lunas, and Battle of Glorieta Pass

...place from April 2-April 9, 1865 in Baldwin County, Alabama, as part of the Mobile Campaign of the American Civil War. Maj. Gen. Edward Canby's Union forces, the XVI and XIII Corps , moved along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, forcing the...

In this article: Battle of Fort Blakely, St. John R. Liddell, American Civil War, Battle of Spanish Fort, John P. Hawkins, and Ulysses S. Grant

...regiment to Fort Union and, being the senior ranking officer there, assumed command of the post. Slough received orders from, Col. Edward R. S. Canby, commanding the Department of New Mexico, to remain at Fort Union. A Confederate force...

In this article: John P. Slough, Edward R. S. Canby, American Civil War, William Read Scurry, Battle of Glorieta Pass, and Cincinnati

...made an urgent call for troops to be sent to the Virginia theater, then entering its critical phase. Canby then believed that he could spare no more than 2000, not enough to invest the largest fort, but enough to take Dauphin Island and...

In this article: David G. Farragut, Fort Morgan, Franklin Buchanan, Mobile, Tennessee, Dauphin Island, Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, Tecumseh, and Tunis A. M. Craven

...but was renamed when it became a part of the Military Division of West Mississippi, in the Department of the Gulf commanded by Maj. Gen. Edward Canby . After the disastrous Red River Campaign, Nathaniel P. Banks resigned from the army...

In this article: Mississippi, Red River Campaign, American Civil War, Battle of Spanish Fort, Battle of Mobile Bay, Battle of Fort Blakely, and Gordon Granger

The ZIP Code is 96015. The community is inside area code 530. The first post office opened at Canby in 1874. The name honors Gen. Edward Canby, who died fighting nearby. In the state legislature Canby is located in the 1st Senate...

In this article: California, Dave Cox, John Doolittle, Doug LaMalfa, California's 4th congressional district, Modoc County, and Alturas

...and Union Maj. Gen. E.R.S. Canby engaged in the Battle of Spanish Fort, one of the last engagements of the war, where he was captured. Canby would later prove influential in Liddell's life by securing amnesty for him from the Federal...

In this article: Braxton Bragg, Jefferson Davis, William J. Hardee, Tennessee, E.R.S. Canby, Richard Taylor, American Civil War, St. John Richardson Liddell, and Louisiana