biography
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Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg
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| male
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| lived:
| (1817–73)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Kentucky, USA. He trained at West Point military academy (1839), fought in the Seminole War and the Mexican War, and commanded the Union's Department of New Mexico, defeating a Confederate attempt to take California. He went to Washington, DC as the assistant adjutant-general, and then led troops in New York City. As commander of the military division of Western Mississippi, he captured Mobile, AL, and as commander of the Department of the Gulf, he accepted the surrender of the last two Confederate field armies in May, 1865. He was sent to negotiate peace with the Modoc Indian tribe in N California and was murdered by them. |
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