Edward Canby

United States Army officer

1817 CE to 1873 CE

Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (November 9, 1817 – April 11, 1873) is a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War, Reconstruction era, and the Indian Wars.

He is the only United States general to be killed during the later wars, and he dies when assassinated at a peace talk with the Modoc in Northern California.

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