The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-08
Hilsborough Highland County Ohio, Thursday, May 1873
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4 General eCanBy.T
General Edward r. ST CahbE whc
was SO foully numbered by the Modot
Chief Captain Jack, On Good Friday
i was a native of Kentucky and was
ty-eight years Of age He was ap-
i pointed a cadet at West Point from
Indiana IN 1885, and graduated with
the rank Of Second Lieutenant fou1
years later. He served three years
in the Florida war and from the ,Bs,
ginning to The end Of the war with
Mexico, taking part in the siege. oi
Vera Cruz and the battles of CerTo
Gordo, ,Gontreras, Cherubusco and
the city Of Mexico. He served with
distinguished ability through the re,
sbellion, and his war record IS thus
summed up BY. contemporary, from
official sources:
On the 14th of May 1861, he was
appointed Colonel of the Nineteenth
Infantry. From May 23d, 1861, to
September 18th, 1852, he served in
command of the Department of New
Mexico, being engaged in the defense
of Fort Craig in January and Febru-
ary, 1862, the combat of Valverde,
February 21st, 1862, and the action
of Peralta, April 18th, 1862. He was
in command of the draft rendezvous
at Pittsburg, Penn, (having been ap-
pointed Brigadier-General of United
States Volunteers March 31st, 1892:
FROM November 7th, 1862, to January
18th, 1853, was on special duty in the
War Department at Washington, D.
c., from January 18th, 1863, to May
7th, 1864, except while detached from
July 14th, 1863, to November 14th
of the same year, in command of the
city and harbor Of New York, to sup
press the draft riots. In command
of the Military Division of East Mis-
sissippi from May 18th, 1864, to June
Sd, 1865, holding the rank of Major
General of United States Volunteers
from May 7th, to March 18th, 1865,
when he was promoted to the rank of
Brevet Major General, United States
Army, for gallant and meritorious
services. On the Sd of September,
1864, the nations thanks were ten
dered to him by President Lincoln
for the ''slkill and harmony with which
the recent operations in Mobile har-
Dor and against Fort Powell, Fort
Gaines and Fort Morgan were plan
ned and carried into execution"
While on tour of inspection in
this Division, on the 4th of November,
1864 Gen. Candy was severely
wounded by rebel guerTillas on the
White River, Arkansas, Having re-
covered he was placed in command
from March to May, 1866, of the
forces in the Mobile campaign, which
resulted in the capture of Spanish
Fort, April 8th; Blakely, April 9th;
the occupation of Mobile, 18th The
thanks of the President and War De
partment May 10, 1865, to Gen. Can
by and the officers and soldiers ofhis
command, for their gallantry, energy
and successful military skill in the
siege and reduction of the strongly
fortified city of Mobile, and for the
achievements which have rendered
their campaign one of the most bril-
liant and.important of the war.
The campaign was pushed with
Characteristic vigor and complete sue
cess, resulting in the occupation Of
Montgomery, April 9th, the surren-
der of Lieutenant-G General Dick Tay-
lor's rebel army, May 4th, and Of the
rebel forces in the trans Mississippi
Department under Gen. E. K. Smith,
May 26th.
After.this date he was in command
successfully of the Departments of
the Gulf, of Louisiana and Texas, and
of Washington. He was assigned
to theDepartment Of the Columbia,
Division of the Pacific, in 1870, and
since then has resided on that coast.
He leaves a wife and family at Port
land, Oregon. Gen. Candy had been
continuously in the service of his
country for thirty-fve years, and it
seems remarkable that he should have
been slain in the way he was. His
death causes profound sorrow through
out the country.