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Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (U.S. Army brigadier general)

b. 1817-11-09 d. 1873-04-11

U.S. Army brigadier general. Kentucky native. Married to Louisa Hawkins Canby. Father of Mary Paul Canby. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1839. Served as quartermaster and commissary of subsistence in the Florida war from October 1839 to 1842. Breveted as major and lieutenant colonel during the Mexican-American War. U.S. Army officer in Monterey County, California, in 1850. Employed John Hammell as a servant in Monterey County in 1850. Promoted to major of the 10th U.S. Infantry in 1855. Commanding officer at Fort Crittenden, Utah, and Fort Defiance, New Mexico, in 1860. Appointed colonel of the 19th U.S. Infantry and commanding officer of the Department of New Mexico on May 14, 1861. Served as brigadier general of U.S. Volunteers from May 31, 1862, to May 7, 1864. Promoted to major general of U.S. Volunteers and served as commander of the Military Division of West Mississippi from May 7, 1864, to May 17, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, California, Monterey County, Monterey, p. 106A.

Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M617, Utah, Fort Crittenden, 1857 Jan - 1861 May, p. 84.

Ezra J. Warner, Jr., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 67-8.

John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher, eds., Civil War High Commands (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001), 161-62.

"Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (1817-1873)," Find A Grave, Memorial 5888328, accessed December 21, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5888328.

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Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207712 (November 12, 2026).

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