Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-07
GEN, CANDY.
Some Account of His Life and Public
Services.

Some Account of His Life and Public
Services.
The telegraph has already furnished
the details of the cruel and treacherous
murder Of Brig. Gen. Candy on Friday
last by Capt. Jack, the leader OF the
Modoc Indians, at conference ap
pointed by the latter. By his death the
country loses the services of one of the
most accomplished gentlemen and gal
liant soldiers in the army, an officer who
won distinction both in the Mexican
war and the war of the Rebellion, and
whose eminent executive ability In the
work of reconstruction commanded for
him the respect and admiration of both
North and South.
Edward Rich Sprigg Candy was born
in Kentucky about the year 1877,
graduated at West Point in 1889, and
was appointed Second Lieutenant in
the Second Infantry. He became AS
sistant Commissary of Subsistence in
October, 1S39 First Lieutenant in
June, 1e49, and Assistant Adiutant-
General in March, 1847. During the
Mexican War he particularly distin-
guished himself at Cerro Gordo, and
was brevetted Major for gallantry at
Ccntreras and Cherubusco, Aug. 20,
l847, and Lieutenant-Colonel for gal
lantry at the Belen gate of Mexi-
co, Sept. 13 In June, 1851, he became
Captain in the Second Infantry, and in
March, 1855, Major in the Tenth In
fantry. In 1S59-'60 he served in the
Utah expedition under Gen. A. S.
Johnston, and had command of Fort
Brldger. When the War of the Rebel
lion broke out in 1861 he was stationed
in New Mexico at Fort Craig, and
exhibited great skill and bravery in
defending the Territory against the
Texas Confederates, especially in the
attack of the latter on Fort Craig.
May IA, 1861, he was made Colonel of
the Nineteenth infantry, and on March
81, 1862, was appointed brigadier
general Of volunteers. Ia September,
1852, he was relieved from duty in
New Mexico, and on November was
ordered to Pittsburg to take command
of the drafted men collected there
from Western Pennsylvania In 1864,
after Gen. Banks Red river disaster.
the department lying west of the Mis-
sissippi was formed into the military
division of West Mississippi, and
Banks was relieved by Gen. Candy
The department was entirely reorgan-
lied, and some regiments were recruit
ted from the plantations, but no ex-
tensive military operations took place
in the State (Louisiana) until near the
close of the year. In the latter part of
November he organized an expedition
of cavalry, which left Baton Rouge,
destroyed the railroad to Jackson, cap
tured Franklinville and West Pasca-
goula, and rendered very effective aid
to the movements of Gen. Sherman.
In April, 1865, while Gen. Wilson was
advancing against Selma and Mont.
gomery, movement was organized for
the capture of Mobile, then occupied
by about Is, 600 troops under Gen. r.
Taylor. The Federal forces consisted
of the Thirteenth Army Corps, under
Gen. Granger, and the Sixteenth,
under Gen. A. J. Smith, Gen. Candy
being in chief command It is need
less to detail the skillful manmuvres of
the land forces which led, in conjunc-
ton with the fleet, to the investment
of the city and its surrender, which
was made to Gen. Candy and Rear
Admiral Thatcher, on the 18th of April.
Seven days afterwards, an officer of
Gen. Taylor's staff arrived at Gen.
Canby's headquarters with a flag of
truce to make terms for the surrender
Of the troops east of the Mississippi,
and on May the surrender was exc
cuted. On the 23d of May, Brig. Gen.
Brent, Of the Confederate army, and
several staff officers, reached Baton
Rouge to consult with General Candy
on the terms of the surrender of Gen.
Kirby Smiths army. The terms We're
arranged, and the surrender made on
the 26th. During the latter part of
the year, when the military depart
ments were reorganized, Gen. Candy
was assigned to the Department of
Louisiana, with is headquarters at
New Orleans. His services in that
state, both in organizing mill
tary protection for planters and
in establishing the system of reg
ulations of free labor adopted by
the Federal Treasury Agent, as well as
his efforts to preserve peace and good
order, and tt reconstruct the govern
ment of the state, marked HIM as an
officer of great executive ability. In
| August, 1867, the course of General
Sickles, who was in command of the
Department of South Carolina, not
meeting with the approval of President
| Johnson, he was removed from COM
mand and relieved by General Candy.
During his service in that
state he compelled all who
| had domiciled there to give
the required parole, prohibited the
provost courts from exercising jurdic-
tion in certain civil suits, established
the question of Jurors qualifications,
completed the registration of the state,
and convoked the convention which
framed constitution and civil gov
ernment." During the last two or
three years he has been in command of
the Department of the Columbia, in
Gen. Schofield's division, with head
quarters at Portland, Oregon.