Edward Canby

Edward Canby

Indian Wars

• Second Seminole War

Mexican-American War

• Battle of Contreras
• Battle of Churubusco
• Battle of Mexico City

Utah War
Indian Wars

• Navajo War of 1860

American Civil War

• Battle of Valverde
• Battle of Peralta
• Battle of Spanish Fort
• Battle of Fort Blakely

Indian Wars

• Modoc War

Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (November 9, 1817 – April 11, 1873) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War, Reconstruction era, and the Indian Wars. He was the only United States general to be killed during the later wars, and he died when assassinated at a peace talk with the Modoc in Northern California.